Publishers Weekly, June 19, 2006, review of Foundling, p. Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2006, review of Foundling, p.
42.īulletin of the Center for Children's Books, July-August, 2006, April Spisak, review of Foundling p. A Publishers Weekly reviewer had no such reservations, though, concluding, "From the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: PERIODICALSīooklist, April 1, 2006, Cindy Dobrez, review of Foundling, p. Bedford felt that "the detail and thought put into his world is indeed extensive, Cornish's many years of building up the world are evident throughout." Bedford also went on to praise the narrative viewpoint Cornish employs: "By placing the story at Rossamund's level, Cornish allows the reader to discover his richly-detailed world along with … Rossamund." Similar praise came from Booklist contributor Cindy Dobrez, who called the book a "Dickensian orphan story an original spin." Dobrez also commended Cornish's original and "impressive black-and-white portraits." Likewise, School Library Journal contributor Christi Voth thought Foundling was an "inventive debut novel," as well as a "delightful, refreshing standout in a sea of cookie-cutter fantasy worlds." However, with its hundred pages of glossary and appendices, the book was a "fine story and universe, but overblown," in the opinion of a Kirkus Reviews critic. Thus he is launched into a medieval-style world, having adventures fighting monsters and meeting strange and curious people as he comes of age. Possessing a girl's name does not make life any easier for this young boy, who finally sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter for the emperor. This initial novel in the series features the foundling named Rossamund who was raised in Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls. The result was Foundling, the first of three novels in the "Monster Blood Tattoo" series. Then in 2003 a children's book publisher encouraged him to put these notebooks to use in creating fantasy juvenile fiction. Beginning as an art student in 1993, he spent a decade meticulously filling twenty-three notebooks with the facts, figures, histories, definitions, and pictures of a mythical world, Half-Continent, which he was happily creating. Cornish is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels. WRITINGS: FICTIONįoundling (Book 1, "Monster Blood Tattoo" series), illustrated by the author, Putnam ( New York, NY), 2006. Education: Attended University of South Australia.
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