I really like fairy tale retellings, so I was eager to read this book. It is a good book, but not so much about fairy tales as about the Holocaust and one girl’s struggle to uncover her grandmother’s past. Becca’s grandmother, Gemma, always tells the story of Sleeping Beauty. As …
I must admit this is a book where I saw the cover and immediately wanted to read it. After reading the description it sounded amusing, so I picked it up from the library. This is the First Tale from the Five Kingdoms by Vivian French. Last I heard she was …
This is the first book in Lisle’s Sun and Moon trilogy. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. I had read a couple of Lisle’s older books back when I was in high school and remember liking them. Well I am glad I picked this up because it …
Previously I have read “Beauty Sleep” by Cameron Dokey, and I liked the story. So, I was excited to read another fairy tale retelling by Dokey. Unfortunately I found this retelling of “Arabian Nights” hard to get through and pretty boring. Shahrazad is the daughter of a great storyteller. When …
I have read a number of DiCamillo books and loved most of them. I decided to read this book because my son got the movie and I was interested in reading the book before I saw it. It was a wonderful book! This book tells the tale of three “people”. …
This is the concluding book in The Looking Glass Wars trilogy by Frank Beddor. It was okay. I think Beddor did a good job of wrapping things up, but I just couldn’t get into either the characters or the story. After King Arch devises to set off the bomb to …
I have read DiCamillo’s story “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” previously and really liked it. When I saw she had written another book I was really excited to read it. This is a fabulous book; but touches on more adult topics than her other books. Peter Augustus Duchene is …
This book is another retelling of the classic tale “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”. I got this through the Amazon Vine program which was ironic since last month I read “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow” by Jessica Day George, another beautiful retelling of this classic tale. …
I really wanted to read DiCamillo’s new book “The Magician’s Elephant” and while I am on the waiting list at the library to get it I decided to check out some of her other books. After reading the synopsis of a couple, I decided this book looked interesting. It ended …
I like Brom a lot so I was very excited to get an ARC of “The Child Thief” to review. For those new to Brom, he started doing awesome artwork. Then he did a phenominal picture book called “Plucker” and then he did another pretty cool book called “The Devil’s …
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