The Reviews
The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield, by John Bemelmans Marciano, at Magic Words
The Abominables, by Eva Ibbotson, at The Book Monsters
The Accidental Time Traveller, by Janis Mackay, at Time Travel Times Two
Aesop's Secret, by Claudia White, at A Woman's Wisdom
Back to Blackbrick, by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, at Barbara Ann Watson
The Cabinet of Wonders, by Marie Rutkoski, at Dead Houseplants
The Cloud Forest, by Joan North, at a pile of leaves
Fairest of All (Whatever After 1), by Sarah Mlynowski, at Carstairs Considers
Finally, by Wendy Mass, at book4yourkids
The Forbidden Library, by Django Wexler, at Views from the Tesseract
Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities, by Mike Jung, at That's Another Story
Jinx, by Sage Blackwood, at Semicolon, and Rachel Neumeier (also Jinx's Magic)
Jinx's Magic, by Sage Blackwood, at Kid Lit Geek
Knightley and Son: Cracking the Code, by Rohan Gavin, at Jen Robinson’s Book Page
The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham, at Views from the Tesseract
Magic Marks the Spot, by Caroline Carlson, at alibrarymama
Magic Trix: Secrets and Spies, by Sara Grant, at Nayu’s Reading Corner
The Mesmer Menace, by Kersten Hamilton, at Sharon the Librarian
The Monster in the Mudball, by S.P. Gates, at Boys and Literacy
No Returns (The Battleband Saga book 1), by Gail Giles and Deb Vanasse, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee, at Jen Robinson's Book Page, Ms. Yingling Reads, and books4yourkids
Pillage, by Obert Skye, at Leaf's Reviews
Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale, at The Ninja Librarian
The Princess Curse, by Merrie Haskell, at Booked til Tuesday
The Quirks--Welcome to Normal, and Circus Quirkus, by Erin Soderberg, at A Year of Reading
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu, at Ex Libris
The Rithmatist, by Brandon Sanderson, at Semicolon
Rump, by Liesl Shurtliff, at Pages Unbound
The Sasquatch Escape, by Suzanne Selfors, at Literate Lives
The Secret Box, by Whitaker Ringwald, at The Write Path
Secrets of the Book, by Erin Fry, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Seven Wild Sisters, by Charles de Lint, at Charlotte's Library
Sidekicked, by John David Anderson, at Sonderbooks
The Sleeping Army, by Francesca Simon, at Charlotte's Library
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at Nerdy Book Club
A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff, at Not Acting My Age
Tesla's Attic, by Neil Shusterman and Eric Elfman, at Ms.Yingling Reads
The Twistrose Key, by Tone Almhjell, at The Book Smugglers
The Water Mirror, by Kai Meyer, at Blog of Erised
The Wells Bequest, by Polly Shulman, at The Book Monsters
The Wolf Princess, by Cathryn Constable, at Ex Libris
Yesterday's Doll, by Cora Taylor, at Charlotte's Library
Zoe and Zaq and the Tiger Temple, by Lars Guignard, at Pragmatic Mom and Geo Librarian
Two at Redeemed Reader--The Twistsrose Key, by Tone Almhjell, and Jinx's Magic, by Sage Blackwood
Two of the Cybils shortlisted books, The Water Castle and Sidekicked, at alibrarymama
Three short reviews at Views from the Tesseact-- The Magician's Tower, by Shawn Thomas Odyssey, A Question of Magic, by E.D. Baker, and Song of the Quarkbeast, by Jasper Fforde.
Authors and Interviews
Anne Ursu (The Real Boy) at MINNPOST
Vivian Vande Velde (Deadly Pink, and many more) at Awake at Midnight
Karen Foxlee (Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy) at Nerdy Book Club
Other Good Stuff
The 2013 Cybils Winners have been announced--particular congratulations to Jonathan Stroud and The Screaming Staircase!
Con or Bust is currently holding its on-line auction to help fans of color attend SFF cons; the auction ends Sunday, February 23.
The Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlists have been announced; there are several middle grade fantasy books not yet published here in the US that sound rather good.
A nice long post about PL Travers at Reveries Under the Sign of Austin, Two
Laurel Snyder--"Boys Will be Boys, and Girls Will Be Accommodating"
In the realm of the utterly adorable, which you have probably seen but regardless, Kids Read to Shelter Cats
And finally, I was awfully proud this week to reveal the cover of the fourth book in Sarah Prineas' marvelous middle grade fantasy series--the Magic Thief: Home; here's the cover again, and at the actual post there's a sneak peak at some of the interior art.
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Wow! Lots of awesome links. And love the cover to Sarah's new book.
ReplyDeleteWhoops: it wasn't me that posted about the Abominables. Though I wish it was.
ReplyDeleteA brand new type of mistake! How Exciting. And now fixed.
Deleteand thanks for telling me!
DeleteWow, that is a long list this week!
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