THE THIEF OF ALWAYS

Clive Barker, . . HarperTrophy, $5.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-440994-0

When a 10-year-old boy wishes to be delivered from a boring afternoon, a creature takes him to the Holiday House. "Barker masterfully embroiders this fantasy world with a mounting number of grim, even gruesome details," wrote PW, "in a tale that manages to be both cute and horrifying." Ages 10-up. (Feb.)

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