The Reviews
Back To Blackbrick, by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, at Time Travel Times Two
Battle of the Beasts, by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Blood Ties (Spirit Animals Book 3), by Garth Nix and Sean Williams, at Resistance is Futile
The Cheshire Cheese Cat, by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright at Tales of the Marvelous
Children of the Dragon, by Rose Estes, at Views From the Tesseract
Children of the King, by Sonya Hartnett, at Sonderbooks
Cinderella Stays Late (Grimmtastic Girls Book 1) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams at The Book Monsters
Dragon on Trial (The Menagerie, Book 2), by Tui T. Sutherland and Kari Sutherland, at Charlotte's Library
A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile
Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Flame of Olympus, by Kate O'Hearn, at Eastern Sunset Reads
The Green Futures of Tycho, by William Sleator, at Views From the Tesseract
Grimmtastic Girls, books 1 and 2, by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, at Small Review
House of Secrets, by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia and School Library Journal
The Interrupted Tale, by Maryrose Wood, at The Book Monsters
Juniper Berry, by M.P. Kozlowsky, at Michelle I. Mason
The Last Dragonslayer, by Jasper Fforde, at Claire M. Caterer
The Last Wild, by Piers Torday, at Good Books and Good Wine
The Lost Planet, by Rachel Searles, at Akossiwa Ketoglo
The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson, at Pass the Chicklets, Book Nut, Fantasy Literature, In Bed With Books, The Geek Girl Project, and Bookyurt
The Nethergrim, by Matthew Jobin, at Scott Reads It
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee, at Hidden in Pages, Bookends, and The A P Book Club
The People In Pineapple Place, by Anne Lindburgh, at Charlotte's Library
The Race for Polldovia, by James Rochfort, at Charlotte's Library
The Riverman, by Aaron Starmer, at Great Imaginations, Charlotte's Library, and Queen Ella Bee Reads
Rose and the Magician's Mask, by Holly Webb, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile
Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier, by Ying Chang Compestine and Vinston Compestine, at Views from the Tesseract
Seven Wild Sisters, by Charles de Lint, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Shadow Throne, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Sonderbooks
Sidekicked, by John David Anderson, at The Book Monsters
Smasher, by Scott Bly, at fanboynation
The Spindlers, by Lauren Oliver, at Librarian of Snark (audiobook review)
Wish You Weren't, by Sherrie Petersen, at Middle Grade Ninja
Two at Guys Lit Wire-- Odd and the Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman, and Ludo and the Star Horse, by Mary Stewart
Authors and Interviews
Heather Mackey (Dreamwood) at OneFour Kidlit
Aaron Starmer (The Riverman) at Word Spelunking (also a review)
M.P. Kozlowsky (The Dyerville Tales) at Word Spelunking (also a review)
Scott Bly (Smasher) at The Enchanted Inkpot
Natalie Lloyd (A Snicker of Magic) at The Hiding Spot
Jaleigh Johnson (The Mark of the Dragonfly) at The Children's Book Review, Suvudo, and The Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia
Claudia White (Aesop's Secret) at Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books
Amie Borst (Cinderskella) at Middle Grade March
Other Good Stuff
Steph at Views From the Tesseract looks back at her youth and shares Confessions of a Speculative Fiction Reader
And also at Views From the Tessearct you can find ten books with Dangerous Vegetation
Nahoko Uehashi, Japanese writer of fantasy, has won the 2014 Hans Christian Anderson Award (basically the Nobel Prize for children's fiction). Two of the books in her Moribito series have been translated; I've read the first book, Guardian of the Spirit, and went and bought the second lo these many years ago, but sadly, as is the case with most of the books I actually buy, I haven't read it yet.
Kate Milford (author of The Boneshaker and The Broken Lands, and the much-anticipated-by-me Greenglass House (late summer) is running a kickstarter for Bluecrowne--a self-published novel set "in and around" the world of those books, in which "two peddlers arrive in the city of Nagspeake seeking a pyrotechnical prodigy and a knife shaped like an albatross." More info. here.
Random aside--I have come to realize that I will find any book whose blurb includes the word "albatross" strangely appealing. And apparently albatrosses have no idea where they are going, which makes them even more appealing.
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Ahahhaa I cracked up at your random aside! I have to say, albatrosses are pretty cool. I don't think I've come across them all that often in literature though
ReplyDeleteAlbatrosses are absolutely pretty cool. I like that they can be good luck, or bad luck, depending. Thanks for the mention, Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! And that photo is adorable.
ReplyDeleteLove that albatross's expression. It kind of says "Yeah, I fly 1.5 million miles in no particular direction. So?"
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