The Reviews:
11 Books, by Wendy Mass, at Anita Silvey's Children's Book-a-day Almanac
The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl), by Eoin Colfer, at Storytelling & Me
Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld, at The Compulsive Reader
The Boy at the End of the World, by Greg van Eekhout, at Charlotte's Library
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, by Dale E. Bayse, at Sony the Book Lover
Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow, by Nathan Bradsford, at Geo Librarian
The Midnight Gate, by Helen Stringer, at Bookworming in the 21st Century
Mistress of the Storm, by M.L. Welsh, at Charlotte's Library
Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper, at Tor
The Pinhoe Egg, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Stella Matutina
Reckless, by Cornelia Funke, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
The Remarkable and Very True Story of Lucy and Snowcap, by H.M. Bouwman, at Novel and Nouveau
Runemarks, by Joanne Harris, at Book Nut
The Silver Bowl, by Diane Stanley, at Charlotte's Library
Spellbound (Books of Elsewhere 2), by Jacqueline West, at Beyond Books
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, at Ex Libris
The Tartan Magic series, by Jane Yolen, at Books Kids Like
Troubletwisters, by Garth Nix and Sean Williams, at Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books
Wildwood, by Colin Meloy, at the Ya Ya Yas
A Year Without Autumn, by Liz Kessler, at Reading, Writing, and Ribaldry
Other things of interest:
Here's an interview I missed last week--Laura Sullivan (Under the Green Hill) at Candace's Book Blog
Kathrine Langrish hosts Terri Windling in a reprise of her Fairy Tale Reflections series at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
You can find some great discussion questions for Harry Potter at Challenging the Bookworm
And finally, a bit of monster art goodness--all of Lovecraft's monsters beautifully portrayed, via Galleycat. Here's an example from the artist's website (Yog-Blogsoth)
YAKITH LIZARD"So T’yog wrote his protective formula on a scroll of pthagon membrane (according to von Junzt, the inner skin of the extinct yakith-lizard) and enclosed it in a carven cylinder of lagh metal—the metal brought by the Elder Ones from Yuggoth, and found in no mine of earth. This charm, carried in his robe, would make him proof against the menace of Ghatanothoa—it would even restore the Dark God’s petrified victims if that monstrous entity should ever emerge and begin its devastation."
H.P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, Out Of the Aeons
Great round-up. FYI, I'll be interviewing Nathan Bransford on Monday and giving away a copy of his book.
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