This is a fun collection of stories. I found them all to be readable, but favorites I enjoy rereading are the more light-hearted inclusions - The Sixty-Two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd by Patricia C. Wrede and The Princess Who Kicked Butt by Will Shetterly, both of which I would particularly recommend.

A Wizard’s Dozen edited by Michael Stearns is an anthology of thirteen children’s fantasy stories. It includes Efrum’s Marbles by Joy Oestreicher and The Princess Who Kicked Butt by Will Shetterly.

If you would like a short story collection for a young reader, or nighttime stories for a child beyond picture books, this is an excellent choice.

For my expanded report: https://1book42day.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-wizards-dozen-edited-by-michael.html
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A collection of fantasy short stories. Patricia Wrede's "The 62 Curses of Caliph Arenschadd" has fun world-building. Charles de Lint's "Fairy Dust" is, like all his other work, filled with fascile moral conclusions and immature writing. I loved the main character in Will Shetterly's "The Princess Who Kicked Butt." Tappan King's "Come Hither" also has a very enjoyable main character (another self-sufficient girlchild).
I have always thought Bruce Coville is awesome, and he proves it yet again with the imaginative, very anti-war story "With His Head Tucked Under His Arm." Alan Smale's "The Breath of Princes" is a fantastic story in the same vein as [book: Dealing With Dragons] or [book: Dragon's Bait]. Speaking of Vande Velde's work, her short story "Lost Soul" is a creepy tale of a peasant seduced by the fey.