The Sisters Grimm, The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley opens as eleven year old Sabrina Grimm and her seven year old little sister Daphne are being shuttled from their last foster home to a new home in Ferryport Landing. This time it’s different. The woman who is taking them into her home says that [...]
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 [...]
Thank you everybody who told me to read Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. I can’t give just one person credit because so many people told me about this wonderful book.
Jane Yolen is not a author that’s new to me, in fact I read and reviewed The Devil’s Arithmetic (my book review here) earlier this [...]
What a cute, wonderful little story. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levinewas another book I read as one of my life goals to read all of the Newbery books. Ella Enchanted is a 1998 Newbery Honor book (see entire list here). Plus, I recently found it for 25 cents and I [...]
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy begins in Poland. It’s 1943 and World War II is drawing to a close. A Jewish family escapes the ghetto and are on the run with the Nazi’s close behind them. The father and stepmother must hurriedly make a decision to save [...]
