How would you like to grow up in a family where your mother is perfect, your grandfather can move mountains, and your two brothers can control the weather and create electricity? Mibs Beaumont in Savvy by Ingrid Law is doing just that. Each family member possesses a “savvy” – a special power that erupts when [...]
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 [...]
The interview we’ve all been waiting for!! Shannon Hale! Shannon is the Newbery Medal author of Princess Academy, as well as her other beloved books including Book of a Thousand Days, Rapunzel’s Revenge, Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Austenland.
Shannon wasn’t just gracious enough to stop by for a visit but she answered the [...]
What can I say about Far World, Water Keep by J. Scott Savage that those of you who are big blog browsers haven’t already heard? Because seriously, he has got to be one of the smartest marketers I know, and also one of the tiredest. Who doesn’t love him? Everybody is reading his book and [...]
This book review comes at the perfect time, as I just met Shannon Hale. If you missed that post, see it here. There’s pictures! Shannon was nice as ever and liking an author for the actual person they are makes me like their books even more. Princess Academy is a 2006 Newbery [...]
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