Here's this week's round-up, brought to you on a beautiful day here in southern New England (although we need rain....). Let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
100 Cupboards, by N.D Wilson, at Dead Houseplants
Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My…, by Adam Mansbach & Alan Zweibel, at Mom Read It
The Book of Storms, by Ruth Hatfield, at The Book Monsters
Circus Mirandus, by Cassie Beasley, at The Book Wars
A Curious Tale of the In-Between, by Lauren DeStefano, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
The Disapperance of Emily H., by Barrie Summy, at Read Love
Dragon Rider, by Cornelia Funke, at The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow
Dragons of the Dark Rift, by Kevin Gerard, at Mother Daughter and Son Book Reviews
Goddess Girls books 9-11, by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, at Small Review
The Hostage Prince, by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple, at Read Till Dawn
The Imaginary, by A.F. Harrold, at Pages Unbound
Lilliput, by Sam Gayton, at Charlotte's Library
Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Nerdy Book Club
My Diary from the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson, at SLJ
The Princess Curse, by Merrie Haskell, at Nooks and Crannies
Princess Juniper of the Hourglass, by Ammi-Joan Paquette, at Word Spelunking
Ranger in Time series, by Kate Messner, at Redeemed Reader
Renegade Magic, by Stephanie Burgis, at Leaf's Reviews
The School for Good and Evil series, by Soman Chainani, at A Backward's Story
School for Sidekicks, by Kelly McCullough, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Smek for President, by Adam Rex, at Read Till Dawn
The Time of the Ghost, by Diana Wynne Jones, at The Book Smugglers
Trollhunters, by Guillermo Del & Daniel Kraus, at SLJ
Valiant, by Sarah McGuire, at Bookyurt
Winter Turning, by Tui T. Sutherland, at Hidden in Pages
Authors and Interviews
S.E. Grove (The Golden Specific) at The Book Smugglers
Cornelia Funke (Dragon Rider, Inkheart), at The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow
Liz Kessler talks about The Wishing Chair at The Guardian
Emma Carroll (In Darkling Wood) at Fluttering Butterflies
Janet Fox (The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle) at Elizabeth O. Delumba
Other Good Stuff
"Magical Realism or Fantasy?" at Project Mayhem
A Tuesday Ten of middle grade sci fi at Views from the Tesseract
The program for Kidlitcon 2015 will be released early next week; stay tuned!
And all stay tuned for the call for Cybils panelists, coming in the middle of the month. All of you whose blogs show up in these round-ups on a regular basis would make great panelists in Middle Grade Speculative Fiction....
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I reviewed the first five books in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase sequence: http://emeraldcitybookreview.com/2015/08/the-wolves-chronicles-part-one.html. Sort of fantastical history rather than classic fantasy.
ReplyDeleteI've thought about Wolves before, and I just don't think this one is fantasy. The alternate history bit doesn't happen yet, and though the wolves behave oddly it isn't magical. Later books in the series, things happen that really aren't part of the normal world, but here not so much....
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on how you define fantasy! There are certainly things and events that defy reason and the laws of nature, but not magic per se. (from "Black Hearts in Battersea" onward -- "Wolves" is more of a straight adventure story.)
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