Here's what I found this week; please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
Bella at Midnight, by Diane Stanley, at Read Till Dawn
The Chosen Prince, by Diane Stanley, at Read Till Dawn
Clones vs. Aliens, by M.E. Castle, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Courting Magic, by Stephanie Burgis, at Strange and Random Happenstance
A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Children, by Laurence Yep, at Waking Brain Cells and The Hiding Spot
Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, at Kid Lit Geek, Great Kid Books, Not Acting My Age, and The Book Smugglers
Finding Serendipity, by Angelica Banks, at On Starships and Dragonwings
Ghosts of War: The Secret of Midway, by Steve Watkins, at BooksforKidsBlog
Greatful, by Wendy Mass, at Ms. Yingling Reads (scroll down)
The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, by Christopher Healey, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
The Imaginary, by A.F. Harrold, at Kid Lit Geek
The Island of Dr. Libris, by Chris Grabenstein, at books4yourkids and Librarian of Snark
The Island of Shipwrecks, by Lisa McMann, at Hidden in Pages
Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk, by Liesl Surtliff, at Hidden in Pages
Jinx's Fire, by Sage Blackwood, at By Singing Light
Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger, at A Reader of Fictions
Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Book Nut and Charlotte's Library
A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, at Lunar Rainbows
Nightbird, by Alice Hoffman, at The Reading Nook Reviews and Bookshelf Gargoyle
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Literary Hoots
Nuts To You, by Lynne Rae Perkins, at Bibliobrit
Rump, by Liesl Shurtliff, at Librarian of Snark
Smek for President, by Adam Rex, at In Bed With Books
Son of a Dark Wizard, by Sean Patrick Hannifin, at Bibliotropic
Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs, at Becky's Book Reviews
Stolen Magic, by Stephanie Burgis, at Strange and Random Happenstance
The Telling Stone, by Maureen McQuerry, at Word Spelunking (giveaway)
The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit, at Fantasy Literature
The Whisper, by Aaron Starmer, at Charlotte's Library
The Zodiac Legacy, by Stan Lee et al., at Nerdophiles
Zoe and Zac and the Ghost Leopard, by Lars Guignard, at Bitches n Prose (audiobook review)
Authors and Illustrators
Sage Blackwood (Jinx) at Word Spelunking (giveaway)
John David Anderson (The Mutineers) at Word Spelunking (also review and giveaway)
Alice Hoffman (Nightbird) at School Library Journal
Katherine Applegate (The One and Only Ivan) at The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow
Heidi Schultz (Hook's Revenge) at the Barnes and Noble Kid's Blog
Anthony Brown on reimagining Alice in Wonderland
Other Good Stuff
Brandy has compiled a great list of fun fantasy over at the Cybils blog, and at her own place she has a great list of favorite MG spec fic heroines.
A Tuesday Ten of sickness and tiredness at Views from the Tesseract
A look at the first pages of the illustrated Harry Potter at Tor
And finally, the Providence Public Library is currently hosting a Unicorn Stampede! "The Providence Public Library will host an art installation of life-size glitter unicorns surrounded by light and sound. These figures will serve as muses and help the public visualize the wondrous possibility that unicorns represent. At the close of the stampede, the unicorns will disperse around the city to other prominent indoor locations." Runs through Tuesday, March 31, Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street
Thank you for the heads up in the illustrated Harry Potter! That's a must buy for my daughter for Christmas! And as always, thanks for all the work you do in rounding up reviews. Whew!
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