I am delighted to be sharing my experience reading Viper’s Daughter where Michelle Paver takes the reader back to a Stone Age World of clans, magic and survival in another tale that picks up a few years later into Torak and Renn’s lives for fans yet is equally a standalone and a fine jumping in point … Continue reading Blog Tour: Viper’s Daughter- Michelle Paver
I am delighted to be taking part in the Blog Tour for My Monster and Me by Nadiya Hussain and Ella Bailey as, for me, self-care books are a very important part of any children’s book collection in order to give children resilience and the coping mechanisms to cope with the pressures and emotional stressors … Continue reading Blog Tour: My Monster and Me Nadiya Hussain and Ella Bailey
She’s done it again. Kirsty Applebaum has once again taken a genre that had certain associations of content, style and readership and flipped the expectations on their head with heart and character-driven MUST READ story. The Middler reframed dystopia for Middle Grade now TrooFriend challenges wider thinking of Sci-Fi and shows how it can be … Continue reading TrooFriend- Kirsty Applebaum
I am a huge fan of Fleur Hitchcock’s writing in particular so in the Clifftoppers series because they remind me of the beloved Famous Five adventures that I adored when I was a child and the exceptionally brilliant part is that they are linked in that the children appear in each book visiting their grandparents' … Continue reading Clifftoppers: The Thorn Island Adventure -Fleur Hitchcock
Sharon Gosling has done something incredibly special in this book returning to the Victorian era so much earlier than her wonderful The Golden Butterfly novel this time we go to the late 1870s with a wonderful tale blazing with female empowerment and voices. it is a book that I thoroughly and heartily recommend for fans of … Continue reading The House of Hidden Wonders by Sharon Gosling
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book blogging initiative hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl with new themes each week. This weeks theme is Ten Signs You’re a Book Lover Ok this one is quite simple so I've gone with a list: Never enough books! You Can’t/Struggle to pass a bookshop without going inside VERY … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Signs you’re a Book Lover
We were delighted when we won a copy of Once Upon A Dragon’s Fire from Toppsta. This book is a lovely mythopoeic tale that takes the idea of explaining how dragons got their fire. But it also has hidden depths, undulating below the sweet story of two brave small children is challenging gossip and not … Continue reading Once upon a dragon’s fire- Beatrice Blue
