Title: The Mermaid in the Millpond Writer: Lucy Strange, illustrated by Pam Smy Publishing House: Barrington Stoke Date of Publication: January 6th 2022 Rating: 5 stars ‘’I’m told there is a mermaid in the millpond. Not the sort of mermaid that sits on a rock, combing her pretty hair and singing to the moon. No,…
Month: November 2021
So Much For That Winter
Title: So Much For That Winter (original title: Det var så den vinter) Writer: Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra Publishing House: Graywolf Press Date of Publication: June 15th 2016 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Night has descended on Amager. Denmark is laid in darkness. The Sound flows softly. The planes take off and land. Minna awakens….
Hans Christian Andersen (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Hans Christian Andersen (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Maxine Lee-Mackie Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: April 20th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things. Hans Christian Andersen A…
Our Wives Under the Sea
Title: Our Wives Under the Sea Writer: Julia Armfield Publishing House: Picador Date of Publication: March 3rd 2022 Rating: 5 stars ‘’The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness. Unstill, is the word Leah uses, tilting her head to the side…
Michael Jordan
(Little People, Big Dreams) Title: Michael Jordan (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Lo Harris Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: December 7th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.’’ Michael Jordan The boy of our…
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Title: Five Tuesdays in Winter Writer: Lily King Publishing House: Grove Press Date of Publication: November 2nd 2021 Rating: 5 stars Well, there is something vague and hazy and particular about Tuesdays. They are simple but mysterious, neither here nor there, free of the Monday gloom but lacking the joy of Friday. They are peaceful…
Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories
Title: Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories Writer: Various, edited by Roald Dahl Publishing House: Penguin Date of Publication: February 2nd 2012 (first published 1983) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Too determined though. Always got his own way. Loved Christine too much I thought. Died among the roses. Used to sit down here with her for hours,…
Dark Tales
Title: Dark Tales Writer: Shirley Jackson Publishing House: Penguin Classics Date of Publication: September 28th 2017 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Miss Adela Strangeworth stepped daintily along Main Street on her way to the grocery. The sun was shining, the air was fresh and clear after the night’s heavy rain, and everything in Miss Strangeworth’s little town…
A Bedtime Full of Stories
Title: A Bedtime Full of Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends from Around the World Writer: Angela McAllister, illustrated by Anna Shepeta Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: November 9th 2021 Rating: 5 stars Fifty beautiful folk tales to be read before bed, to soothe your soul, to make you travel in lands…
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