Rita Wong and the Jade Mask- Mark Jones with illustrations by Seamus Jennings

Rita Wong and the Jade Mask is a curious story. It has this whimsical feel that has whispers from a wide range of modern MG influences, of Pages & Co, Podkin and Stubbs and Dragon Detective meets with portal magic, tumbling into a strange magical world like The Midnight Hour trilogy. It’s very different from …

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Blog Tour: When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke

When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke is a beautiful poem of the heart explaining, affirming and encouraging equal rights, black pride and black joy across a picture book filled with silhouettes and blanked faces of many shades of Black skin so that the reader sees every individual and all Black people in …

Amari & the Night Brothers by B.B Alston

I am DELIGHTED to be taking part in the Ultimate Blog Tour for Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston which is quite frankly such an thrilling and fresh take on the magical fish out of water genre that I can hardly hold my excitement in. The crunch of it could be summed up …

Moonchild: Voyage of the Lost and Found by Aisha Bushby

I am so grateful that this book landed on my doormat because this book, my goodness, this book has something incredible within its pages, something that stirs the soul and reaches in for the magic buried deep inside us. If you love the way that Sophie Anderson threads oral storytelling and folk tale tradition into …

The House of Hidden Wonders by Sharon Gosling

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 …

Crater Lake – Jennifer Killick

OH MY GOODNESS. Jennifer Killick has created an INCREDIBLE novel in Crater Lake. Packed with horror and heart, monsters and mayhem, crushes and blushes, bullies and besties who must fight for the survival of not only their friends but the whole world. I cannot recommend this highly enough it is just outstanding from start to …

The Ice Bear Miracle- Cerrie Burnell

This is firmly in the myth interpreted in the real world camp and that’s a wonderful thing though fans of stories like The Girl Who Speaks Bear, North Child and The Way Past Winter will find much to love in this tale creaking with myth and magic. Whereas Burnell fully revealed her hand with the …