{"id":29186,"date":"2016-10-20T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=29186"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:49:57","slug":"griffin-and-sabine-by-nick-bantock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/griffin-and-sabine-by-nick-bantock\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin and Sabine<\/I> by Nick Bantock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"griffinandsabine\"Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>is the first\u00a0in a\u00a0captivating\u00a0series of books by Nick Bantock.<\/p>\n

When I try\u00a0to describe this book series to friends, the best way I can\u00a0think to do so is by saying they are\u00a0like pop-up books for grown-ups. Inside there are beautifully drawn postcards, with enchanting\u00a0full-color art\u00a0on one side of the page and what looks like handwritten correspondence on the verso. A real treat presents itself when you\u00a0get to the pages with\u00a0the envelopes, out of which you can pull actual letters.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0aptly-subtitled extraordinary correspondence\u00a0begins, you learn that Griffin Moss, a London artist, and Sabine, an artist and midwife’s assistant\u00a0from\u00a0an island\u00a0in the South Pacific, have not\u00a0met in person. Yet somehow, they share a mysterious connection.\u00a0This part-romance, part-fantasy fiction, part-mystery series grew such\u00a0a following that\u00a0Bantock\u00a0responded by\u00a0creating\u00a0the equally gorgeous Morning Star Trilogy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> , which is also comprised of\u00a0The Gryphon<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Alexandria<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and features the same Griffin and Sabine as well as\u00a0some new characters.<\/p>\n

It seems like it would be a nightmare for public libraries to keep track of the loose pieces,\u00a0and\u00a0part of me is\u00a0reluctant to tell anyone else about them for fear of tempting fate…but I feel it wouldn’t be fair to keep\u00a0something so\u00a0enjoyable under wraps.\u00a0I am grateful and pleased to report to you that not once in my history of repeatedly checking out these books from multiple libraries do I recall ever encountering a missing or ill-treated piece. This is a great credit to Bantock’s readers and I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of them\u00a0for taking such good care of these treasures!<\/p>\n

In 2016, on\u00a0the 25th anniversary of the first publication of Griffin and Sabine,\u00a0Bantock\u00a0released\u00a0The Pharos Gate: Griffin and Sabine’s Lost Correspondence<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0I eagerly got my hands on it. It was like\u00a0catching up\u00a0with a dear old\u00a0friend.<\/p>\n

Reading these books is like being\u00a0a fly (who can open mail) on the wall of\u00a0a talented stranger’s mailbox. I cannot overemphasize how fun it is feeling like\u00a0a secret observer to\u00a0this mystical correspondence. The artwork and fonts are so\u00a0intriguing they are beyond my description – you really just have to check them out to see for yourself!<\/p>\n

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Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is the first\u00a0in a\u00a0captivating\u00a0series of books by Nick Bantock. When I try\u00a0to describe this book series to friends, the best way I can\u00a0think to do so is by saying they are\u00a0like pop-up books for grown-ups. Inside there are beautifully drawn postcards, with enchanting\u00a0full-color art\u00a0on[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[3810,3811,3812,3813],"class_list":["post-29186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-epistolary-novels","tag-griffin-and-sabine","tag-nick-bantock","tag-pop-up-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7AK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29186"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29300,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29186\/revisions\/29300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}