I myself have only one mg spec fic post to offer today (though I have been making good progress with eighth grade French), but here's what I found in my blog reading. Let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
Bite Sized Magic, by Kathryn Littlewood, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Boys of Blur, by N. D. Wilson, at The Write Path
The Castle Behind Thorns, by Merrie Haskell, at alibrarymama and Speculating on Spec Fic
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, by Claire Legrand, at Books Take You Places
The Doll in the Garden, by Mary Downing Hahn, at books4yourkids
The Eighth Day, by Dianne Salerni, at Akossiwa Ketoglo and Charlotte's Library
Enchantress From the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl, at The Emerald City Book Review
The Eye of Zoltar, by Jasper Fforde, at Teen Librarian's Tool Box
Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, at Wondrous Reads
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente, at Leaf's Reviews
The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley, at Fyrefly's Book Blog
The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, by Christopher Healy, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia,
This Kid Reviews Books and Small Review (last two with giveaways)
The Interupted Tale, by Maryrose Wood, at Good Books and Good Wine (audiobook review)
The Island of Chaldea, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Kid Lit Geek
The Jupiter Pirates: Curse of the Iris, by Jason Fry, at Views From the Tesseract
The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham, at Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books
The Menagerie, by Tui T. Sutherland and Kari Sutherland, at Books4Tomorrow
Mouseheart, by Lisa Fielder, at Book Nut
Mr. Bass's Planetoid, by Eleanor Cameron, at Tor
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Great Kid Books
The Peculiar, by Stefan Bachmann, at In Libris Veritas
The Real Boy, by Anne Urse, at alibrarymama
The Titanic Locket (Haunted Museum) by Suzanne Weyn, at Mom Read It
The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex, at The Book Smugglers
Wait Till Helen Comes, by Mary Downing Hahn, at books4yourkids
Zoe and Zak and the Tiger Temple, by Lars Guignard, at Candace's Book Blog
Three Ozma-centric Oz books at Tales of the Marvelous
Authors and Interviews
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) at PEN America
The Curators of The Cabinet of Curiosites at The Enchanted Inkpot and at Cynsations (with giveaway)
Anna Staniszewski (My Very UnFairy Tale Life and more) at The Book Cellar
Kit Grindstaff (The Flame in the Mist) at The Book Cellar
Other Good Stuff
At the Inky Page--the four worst cliches in middle grade fantasy
10 Dystopias for the younger reader, at Views From the Tesseract
Here's the conference program for the first meeting of the Australian Fairy Tale Society, via Once Upon a Blog
Leila at Bookshelves of Doom is returning to the weird weird world of Nancy Drew with a hilarious look at "The Message In the Hollow Oak."
Great diversity links this week at Diversity in YA
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I enjoyed The Inky Page's Four Worst Cliches in MG Fantasy. I especially agree with orphans and standard fairy tale creatures being overdone! Lately I've become interested in finding stories about selkies. I hope they aren't yet considered 'standard' ;)
ReplyDeleteI think there's still lots of room for selkies! There's a new one this spring you might like--Lost Children of the Far Islands, by Emily Raabe
DeleteThese look like some wonderful titles and though I don't read Middle Grade fiction, I'm willing to give a few of these a try as they sound very intriguing!
ReplyDeleteWait Till Helen Comes was one of my favorite books as a child.
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