Merrie Haskell


Merrie Haskell

Merrie Haskell’s novels are The Princess Curse, Handbook for Dragon Slayers and The Castle Behind Thorns. Merrie won the 2014 Middle Grades Schneider Family Book Award and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 2013 and 2015. She lives in Michigan and works in a library with 7.5 million volumes.


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Cover for Handbook for Dragon Slayers

Handbook for Dragon Slayers

by Merrie Haskell
HarperCollins - 2013

A fun, feminist fairy tale involving dragons, the wild hunt, and a librarian princess with a clubfoot.

Blog contributions

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July 30, 2014
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Interview with Merrie Haskell about Handbook for Dragon Slayers

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A princess with a clubfoot. Who can resist? We can’t, and apparently the Schneider Family Book Award jury couldn’t, either. Merrie Haskell’s 2014 win of the award was just one of the reasons we wanted to discuss her MG fantasy novel Handbook for Dragon Slayers with her.