Posted in Children, Fantasy, Fiction, Reading Challenges, tagged Cornelia Funke, Inkspell, Once Upon a Time II Challenge on June 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I really should have put more time between Cornelia Funke’s books. I liked Inkheart, really I did. But jumping into Inkspell right away was a bad idea. My brain was tired of the characters. Tired of the story. And tired of the characters not behaving in ways that I expected them to behave.
I didn’t dislike [...]
Posted in Children, Fantasy, Fiction, Reading Challenges, tagged A-Z Challenge, Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, Once Upon a Time II Challenge on June 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
How many times have we wished that we could step into the pages of a book? To wander through Diagon Alley or Rivendell? To walk through Violet Vale with Anne Shirley? Or that our favourite characters would come out? Hanging out with Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew? Adventuring with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn?
The [...]
Posted in Children, Fiction, Recommend, tagged Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Smith on April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just posted about The Mysterious Benedict Society at BlogHer but I couldn’t not post here as well! Not after I told you guys that I’d probably be telling you to go read it. And I don’t like cross posting between the two sites because I write a wee bit differently here than I do [...]
Posted in Children, Fiction, tagged Mysterious Benedict Society on April 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart and illustrated by Carson Ellis.
Unless something completely unfortunate happens I shall be declaring this book absolutely charming and insisting you all read it.
You’ve been warned.
(And Hachette Books has a neat website set up for it….)
Posted in Children, Fiction, tagged juvenile fiction, Spiderwick Chronicles on March 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi didn’t really make it onto my radar until I started to hear about the movie. Even then it didn’t really register until I was at a bookstore with Cat and she bought the Complete First Serial.
Before I started to read it Cat when to see the [...]
Posted in Children, Fiction on November 23, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Princess Academy was cute.
In some ways it’s a very traditional tale but it also has a spark of magic going through it. I suppose it is kind of a fairytale.
Waayyyyy up in the mountain there’s a quarry. And around this quarry is a little town, Mount Eskel (ok it’s the name of the [...]
Posted in Children, Classics, Fiction on November 4, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I have never read Peter Pan. I kind of wonder how many people have and how many people like me grew up with the Disney version. I was never very fond of the Disney version and it didn’t inspire me to ever want to read it (although it must be said that I don’t [...]
Posted in Children, Short Stories on October 27, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Does anyone remember what this story was?
There was a girl living on Venus. Venus almost always got rain and only got a couple of hours of sunlight a year or every few years. Some mean kids in the class locked her in a closet, which caused her to miss the sun.
Does this ring [...]
Posted in Children, Fiction on August 7, 2006 | No Comments »
After a few days of lots of energy I’m once again finding myself braindead. And not wanting to read. After giving up on Beautiful Lies I needed an nice easy intro back into reading again. So I grabbed the thinnest most colourful book on the shelf - Millicent Min.
Millicent is a pretty typical 11 [...]
Posted in Children, Classics, Fiction, Reading Challenges, tagged Summer Reading Challenge on August 2, 2006 | No Comments »
For years I thought I had read this book. I really did. And then one day I read something on a blog about it and realized I didn’t. Actually…I don’t think it was a blog. I think I was reading this article on the Penguin Classics site. Anyway so now I have [...]
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