Welcome to another gathering of all the blogs posts I found this week about middle grade science fiction and fantasy! If I missed your post, let me know, and if you'd like to link to this review, I'd really appreciate it (I'd really like it to be more widely known)
The Reviews (strangely, I now feel no pressing need to review The Emerald Atlas or Kat, Incorrigible, although I do want to read them both!)
Aliens on Vacation, by Clete Barrett Smith, at Abby (the) Librarian
Any Witch Way, by Annastaysia Savage, at Bookworm Lisa
Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark) by Laini Taylor, at Opinions of a Wolf
The Boy at the End of the World, by Greg Van Eekhout, at Stomping on Yeti
The Clockwork Three, by Matthew Kirby, at Reading Tween
The Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens, at Book Dreaming, The Elliott Review, Stalking the Bookshelves, Karissa's Reading Review, The Brain Lair, Simply Books, Chersti Nieveen, Pure Imagination, and The Book Smugglers
Enchanted Glass, by Diana Wynne Jones, at The Speculative Scotsman
Entwinned, by Heather Dixon, at The Book Aunt (who assures me that this is a middle grade cross-over)
Freedom Stone, by Jeffrey Kluger, at Charlotte's Library
The Girl With the Silver Eyes, by Willo Davis Roberts at Tor
Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Ex Libris
Inside Grandad, by Peter Dickinson, at Becky's Book Reviews
Kat, Incorrigible, by Stephanie Burgis, at We Be Reading, It's All About Books, The Musings of a Book Addict, Writer, Reader, Dreamer, and Reading Vacation
The Map Across Time, by C.S. Lakin, at My Love Affair With Books
Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
Terribly Twisted Tales, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg, at The Written Word
The Unicorn's Tale (Nathaniel Fludd Book 4), by R.L. LaFevers, at Strange and Random Happenstance
Urchin of the Riding Stars, by M.I. McAllister, at Just Booking Around
Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston, at books4yourkids
and take a look into How To See Fairies, by Brian Froud and John Matthews at Suvudu
The Other Good Stuff (Interviews etc.)
Candy Gourlay (Tall Story) at Reading in Color
Liz Kessler (A Year Without Autumn--which is out in the UK now, in the US in the fall) at Wondrous Reads (where there's also a review) and at My Favorite Books
The Tor blog visits the Harry Potter Exhibit in New York
Here's a pod cast at Coode Street of Gary K. Wolfe, Farah Mendlesohn, and Tansy Rayner Robers, discussing Diana Wynne Jones
You can test your knowledge of Artemis Fowl with this quiz from the Guardian
Sherwood Smith takes on the question of archetypes at Book View Cafe, and at The Spectacle they're talking folk tales and fairy tales
Tony DiTerlizzi looks into the Hobbit as it might have been, had Maurice Sendak been chosen to illustrate it (thanks to Monica at Educating Alice for the link)
Also there's my post on Just Booking Around, for Urchin of the Riding Stars by M. I. Mcallister - http://justbookingaround.blogspot.com/2011/04/urchin-of-riding-stars-by-m-i.html
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