Maw Books Blog

Unlike everybody else I know my age I made it through my childhood without reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, the 1963 Newbery Medal winner.  Because everybody seems to rave about this book, I thought it was about time I read it for myself.  To tell you the truth, I just didn’t get [...]

I have always wanted to read anything by Jean Craighead George after hearing her and Wendell Minor (the illustrator) speak at a conference about five years ago.  Took me long enough as I’m finally reading my first book, Julie of the Wolves, the 1973 Newbery Winner.
Miyax, also known as Julie as her English name, lives [...]

Shannon Hale’s newest adventure Rapunzel’s Revenge coauthored with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation) is taking the book world by storm!  Why?  First, it’s Shannon Hale.  What’s not to love about Shannon?  Second, it’s a awesome retelling of the Rapunzel story set as a western.  Third, Rapunzel’s uses her long [...]

So I was not really on planning on reading Go Ask Alice by Anonymous for Banned Books Week but the universe was conspiring me to read it and the story of how I ended up with this book is worth mentioning quickly.
Saturday morning my sister calls me and asks me if I would mind picking [...]

Messenger by Lois Lowry is a companion novel to The Giver (my book review) and Gathering Blue (my book review).  The Giver and Gathering Blue can both easily be read own their own but it’s in Messenger that both of their stories come together.
Messenger is set in the village that Jonas from The Giver escapes [...]