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 [...]
I read The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman simply because everybody told met that with my interest in Holocaust literature, I HAD to read it. So of course, I did.
If you are not familiar with The Complete Maus (Maus I and Maus II), let me briefly fill you in. It’s told in alternating viewpoints between [...]
I picked up We Are On our Own: A Memoir by Miriam Katin after I read Dewey’s review at The Hidden Side of a Leaf in which she says, “This is an amazing book. I suggest you all run straight out to your library or bookstore now and pick it up. Seriously.” So seriously, [...]
