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The Vine Basket by Josanne La Valley 14 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
Josanne La Valley's debut novel The Vine Basket (Clarion, 2013) is Merighul's story, and it's not an easy one: not for a 14-year-old girl who has to leave school to help on the family farm after her b...
North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler 13 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
Liz Kessler's series books starring Emily Windsnap and Philippa Fisher are tween girl favorites (we like Emily Windsnap, the half-mermaid, best), but her standalone books are equally appealling: this ...
Administrative tasks 11 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
Apparently I have to write this post in order to claim my blog on Bloglovin. That said, I am regretting having gone with feedly rather than bloglovin after the demise of Google Reader (sniff), and am ...
The Spotted Dog Last Seen 10 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
This will be a review (and giveaway!) of The Spotted Dog Last Seen by Jessica Scott Kerrin (Groundwood, 2013), but first, an anecdote: When we moved to Ann Arbor as newlywed graduate students, my husb...
Kibuishi's Harry Potter Covers 8 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
What do you think of the new Harry Potter covers by Kazu Kibuishi, writer and artist of the graphic novel series AMULET? Now that all of the cover images have been released (they will be on trade pape...
Horn Book Recommended Fantasy Books 10 Jun 2013 | 10:05 pm
There's a long list of recommended fantasy books on the Horn Book blog today, ranging from picture books and primary to fiction for intermediate and older readers (all published within the last severa...
How to Draw a Bear 25 May 2013 | 02:45 am
I love the Guardian's How to draw... series by children's book illustrators. Today it's Jon Klassen with "How to draw...a bear thinking about something." The finished bear will look familiar if you've...
Waiting on Wednesday: The Watchers in the Shadows 15 May 2013 | 06:42 pm
I'm waiting on not one but two books titled The Watcher in the Shadows this spring. The Watcher in the Shadows by Chris Moriarty, which comes out May 28 from Harcourt Children's Books, is the sequel t...
Post-Valentine's Day YA 21 Feb 2013 | 10:35 pm
So, I've been reading a little more YA lately--enough to make this list of YA novels that involve both a. kissing, and b. trips to Europe. What's not to love? The Statistical Probability of Love at F...
Tulip Mania, the Sequel: Snowdrops 21 Feb 2013 | 08:57 pm
I read this article in yesterday's Washington Post ("Letter from Ireland: Snowdrops are a prize in full bloom," by Adrian Higgins, 2/20/2013), about the mania for snowdrop bulbs in Ireland, with great...
