Dog-Eared: October 2015
New and exciting in the world of children’s and teens’s literature: This is the fifth year of *drumroll* the 90-Second Newbery Award Film Festival! The festival is, to quote organizer […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
The Cover Wars
Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan wants to become a spy like the ones he reads about in […]
Review: Fighting Demons by S. L. Huang
It has been two years since Rosa fled the west, walking out on Xiao Hong and Mei, breaking their family […] Xiao Hong’s mother makes the hard decision to return […]
A re-re-told story: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – the book
It was a pleasant surprise to find, quite by chance at the library, that there was a book version of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing […]
Blog Tour: The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris
Hardcover, 176 pages Published October 1st 2015 by Frances Lincoln Children’s Bks Source: Publisher If you’re not familiar with “The Wild Swans” by Hans Christen Anderson then let me present […]
TTT: Winter 2015 TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme by The Broke And The Bookish. This one is pretty self-explanatory. Go! Steph The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness … because […]
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls: The Creepiest H&G Retelling Ever
When Victoria Wright was twelve years old, she had precisely one friend. In fact, he was the only friend she had ever had. his name was Lawrence Prewitt, and on […]
The Cover Wars
Space-farmer Rae Darling is kidnapped and trained to become a warrior against her own people in this adventurous middle grade space western. Rae Darling and her family are colonists on […]
Come On In: A List Of Retellings
Recently, Laura wrote a fantastic post on the importance of retelling. In it, she talks about the popular use of the hero’s journey in fiction, and how it’s typically a […]
Ten Things You Should Know About Lizzie Borden
In anticipation of the upcoming The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller that is being released in January 2016, here are some things you should […]
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