"Occasionally someone executes a standard storytelling device with such dazzling skill that it reminds you why that device became standard in the first place. Rebecca Guay is that someone, with "A Flight of Angels"-  Scripps Howard News Service"If Superman is the Strength of Comics A Flight of Angels is the Soul"- Ain't it Cool News“Dark, haunting, hypnotic–perfect tales for a night when the pillars of heaven are shaking!” – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, The Circle of Magic )


 “An angel falls to earth, and capricious fae argue his fate. A Flight of Angels is a dark and delectable weaving of folklore, enigma, romance, and suspense, and so beautiful I want to put it on my wall in a hundred picture frames.” – Laini Taylor (Lips Touch Three Times (National Book Award finalist) , Daughter of Smoke and Bone)

“Romantic artwork, rich and elegant in color, powerful in design and line, gives vivid life to this tale of a young village couple outwitting a dragon.”  - Ursula K. Le Guin


"A simple, beautiful story to accompany such gorgeous art. Tansy is lively and lovely, her sisters, providing a wonderful offset to her character. It is the stuff of bedtime stories and moments for one’s self." [email protected]

From Booklist*Starred Review* Girls gone wild! The mother-daughter team of Yolen and Stemple have rounded up some of the meanest (or perhaps just misguided) group of gals history has known. And they have wrapped them in an attractive package that makes reading about their exploits even more enjoyable. The list begins with the biblical Delilah (sorry, Sampson), introduces Cleopatra, stops in England to say hello to Anne Boleyn and (bloody) Queen Mary, and then heads over to America to visit with Tituba, Calamity Jane, and Typhoid Mary. And that’s just a few of the 26 spies, sirens, and female felons the duo takes on. Each subject gets a jauntily written page or so, prefaced by one of illustrator Guay’s terrific full-page portraits and back-ended with a comic book–style page featuring the authors discussing whether the woman was exactly what she seemed. In fact, both an introduction and afterword focus on how history changes its opinion on people’s actions, the way history’s winners get the glory, and whether circumstances shape events more than personalities do. The thick paper, graphic novel–style typeface, and delightful artwork executed in ink and brush and dabbed with digital color will draw readers. The bibliography will lead kids to more about these gals. Grades 7-10, --Ilene Cooper
About the AuthorJane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America. She is the award-winning author of over three hundred childrens books including Owl Moon, a Caldecott Medal Winner (Philomel, 1987), the How Do Dinosaurs . . . ? series (Scholastic), Sea Queens, and Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and Scotland. 
Heidi E. Y. Stemple is the author of more than a dozen children s books, several co-authored with her mother, Jane Yolen. Recent titles include Pretty Princess Pig and Not All Princesses Dress in Pink. Heidi lives in western Massachusetts. 
Acclaimed for her mastery of comics, Rebecca Guay has illustrated many books for children, including A Flight of Angels, The Last Dragon, and Goddesses. Rebecca lives in Amherst, Massachusetts