I always felt like poor mermen always got shafted in stories so I firmly intended to make the love interest a merman. I actually didn't originally intend for Between the Sea and Sky to be about winged people at all. I mean, they are SO cute! I could DIE of how cute they are! I wish someone would make merchandise of this! I want a BAG and a THERMOS! Of course, if there is one thing possibly more mesmerizing than a flying hot guy (er.I mean, person) it is a flying cat! I also loved the Catwings books by Ursula K. But my young angst-loving self was mesmerized by the attempt to suppress her growing wings and the lovely pictures of a flying girl. Gwinna started to grow wings from her back so her foster mother tried to bind her chest to stop them, but of course that doesn't work, and of course she learns to fly and.I don't know, stuff happens and the pictures are pretty. So despite my love of wings, it never quite clicked.Īnother story I loved as a kid was Gwinna, by Barbara Helen Berger, which was sort of in the "meaty picture book" format. Although for some reason, I kept sticking my winged people in cold mountains and fairly primitive societies, and the only winged character I really loved actually had crippled wings which he had amputated so he could live a human life.
#Mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone plus#
Feathery wings, bat wings, winged sea fairies with green "fin wings", wings instead of arms, wings plus arms-lots of wings. But the door was open for winged people of all kinds. They could wear normal clothes for some reason. I was always eager to rip-off Elfquest around age 12, so I made a bat-winged race who also lived in a mountain. He wasn't the hottest looking elf around after that (for one thing, he couldn't really wear clothes around his bat-esque body so was reduced to wearing a little V-shaped fur thing-IN THE SNOW-why was he not freezing?) but he was still one of my favorite characters, especially since he was sort of an anti-hero which is always fun.
One elf, Tyldak, really wanted to fly with his own wings so he got Winnowill, the villainous shape-shifter, to painfully shape his arms into wings. There is a tribe of levitating mountain-dwelling elves in the story, who can fly for a short time but also ride giant birds for longer distances. I'll admit, my interest in winged people was sparked in childhood when I was heartily obsessed with the Elfquest comics. Maybe it's the combination of implausibility combined with relatively few myths that keep winged people off my shelf. But there are a fair amount of mermaid myths. But then.um, mermaids? Yeah, they're no better and there are lots of mermaid books, especially this year. Surely I'm not the only person who dreams of flying?Īt first I thought it was because, scientifically, winged people just aren't very possible.
I'm not talking about angels, just regular down-to-earth, if you will, people who have wings. There are very few books about winged people in general. However, I feel a little bad for Alan and the winged folk in the book, because they just don't get the attention. My sister's 6th (I believe?) birthday party was mermaid themed and my mom made us a mermaid costume which I wore at the party and refused to take off even though you couldn't walk in it. Between the Sea and Sky has been getting a fair bit of attention from mermaid lovers in the YA community, which is AWESOME, I love mermaids and always have.
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