The Reviews:
Bigger Than a Bread Box, by Laurel Snyder, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
Dead City, by James Ponti, at Charlotte's Library
Diego's Dragon Book 1: Spirits of the Sun, by Kevin Gerard, at Sharon the Librarian
Dragon Defender, by J.A. Blackburn, at When I Grow Up, I Wanna Write a Kid's Book
The Escape of Princess Madeline, by Kristin Pulioff, at When I Grow Up, I Wanna Write a Kid's Book
Fallout, by Todd Strasser, at Next Best Book
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Laurisa White Reyes
Fireborn, by Toby Forward, at Charlotte's Library
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente, at Fantasy Literature
How To Make Friends and Monsters, by Ron Bates, at The Book Monsters
Hunted (Spirit Animals 2), by Maggie Stiefvater, at Akossiwa Ketoglo
Jordan and the Dreadful Golem, by Karen Goldman, at This Kid Reviews Books
Joshua Dread, by Lee Bacon, at Ms.Yingling Reads
The Last Present, by Wendy Mass, at Book Nut
Nightingale's Nest, by Nikki Loftin, at Views From the Tesseract
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee, at Librarian of Snark, Ex Libris, Wondrous Reads, and Random Musings of a Bibliophile
The Quantum League 1: Spell Robbers, by Matthew J. Kirby, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
The Sandman and the War of Dreams, by William Joyce, at Back to Books
The School For Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, guest review by a young reviewer at Teen Librarian's Toolbox
The Serpent's Ring, by H.B. Bolton, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
Seven Stories Up, by Laurel Snyder, at Slatebrakers and Rosanne Parry
Song of the Mountain, by Michelle Isenhoff, at The Book Monsters
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at School Library Journal
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, at Reads for Keeps
Tuesdays at the Castle, by Jessica Day George, at Ciao Bella
The Water Castle, by Megan Frazer Blakemore, at The Write Path
Winterling, and its sequel Summerkin, by Sarah Prineas, at alibrarymama
Three Space Adventures at Views From the Tesseract -- Starbounders by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos, and The Lost Planet by Rachel Searles
Authors and Interviews
Anna Staniszewski (My Very Unfairy Tale Life) at Mother Daughter Book Reviews
Other Good Stuff:
Ten African American characters in middle grade fantasy and science fiction at Views From the Tesseract
How to Build a Fictional World, a video by Kate Messner (Wake Up Missing), found at Bookshelves of Doom
At Book Nut, Melissa shares ten really good books that didn't make the EMG SF Cybils Shortlist
And finally, a beautiful, though somewhat troubling, installation of fairies from the Royal Shakespeare Company (found at Once Upon a Blog):
Commissioned by and developed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and later adapted for the Enchanted Parks, Sprite Symphony is a magical installation using projections and sound to create a beautiful yet dark display of fairies that have been trapped in jam jars and are trying to escape their glass cages.
The fairies knock and tap on their jars and thereby create a polyphonic musical composition.
The sprites are currently exhibited in a Victorian display cabinet in the RSC theatre foyer in Stratford upon Avon
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Great round-up Charlotte! There are a few on this list that are in my to-be-read pile. I have been wanting to read The Girl Who Circumnavigated... for such a long time and now that I've read another glowing review, I really feel I need to get on that one! So many books, so little time! :-)
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