Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1 is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.
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14 Facts About Wildwood Chronicles
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Wildwood Chronicles then finds Mac in Alexandra's headquarters and she shows him her plan to sacrifice the baby to the magical ivy of the Wood, which will allow the ivy to spread rapidly and consume the Wood and its inhabitants.
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Wildwood Chronicles is found by Brendan, the King of the Bandits, who offers to help.
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In Wildwood Chronicles, everyone is either of The Wood, or is an Outsider, or, in the special case of the protagonists, a "half breed", that is, an Outsider who is able to enter The Wood.
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Wildwood Chronicles had read that word, ergo, in a novel she'd been reading.
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Wildwood Chronicles is an awkward "persecuted loner" who lacks Prue's confidence, and is, at first, easily intimidated and manipulated by Prue, Alexandra, and others.
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Wildwood Chronicles grows in the course of the book, gaining a more definite sense of who he is after being forced to choose sides and stand up to the Dowager Governess Alexandra.
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Wildwood Chronicles is charming and beautiful, and vastly more sophisticated and civilized than her anarchic coyote soldiers she only recently domesticated.
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Premise of Wildwood Chronicles is that Forest Park in Portland is "its own secret country, populated by a diverse and strange people".
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Meloy replied that this is not the case, and that he has "another story in mind" as to the origin of the Ghost Bridge, and that Wildwood Chronicles is meant to be more or less contemporary with our time.
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Wildwood Chronicles is more soft fantasy than hard fantasy, in that historical and technological consistency and plausibility are not a high priority, giving the book a whimsical, or stream of consciousness, tone.
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Unlike her previous work, where the text is completed before the illustrations are created, for Wildwood Chronicles, Ellis collaborated with Meloy throughout the writing process.
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Wildwood Chronicles was on The New York Times Best Seller Children's Chapter Books list for two weeks, ranking 7th the first week and 9th the second.
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Wildwood Chronicles planned the second Wildwood novel to have Prue return to The Wood, "her life very much in danger".
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