Here's what I found this week; please let me know if I missed your post! (Typed with cold fingers....I hope we get a bit more warmth before Winter comes for keeps!)
The Reviews
Basil of Baker Street, by Eve Titus, at Tor
Becca and the Prisoner's Cross, by Tony Abbott, at Boys Rule, Boys Read
The Book of Kringle, by Derek Velez Partidge and Mary Packard, at The Children's Book Review
The Boy Who Knew Everything, by Victoria Forester, at Fantasy of the Silver Dragon
Brilliant, by Roddy Doyle, at BNKids Blog
The Chosen Prince, by Diane Stanely, at alibrarymama
A Curious Tale of the In-Between, by Lauren DeStefano, at Writer of Wrongs
The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB, by Adam Shaughnessy, at The Reading Nook Reviews
Firefly Hollow, by Allison McGhee, at Geo Librarian
Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate Saunders, at Reads For Keeps
Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sacher, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels and Susan Uhlig
Grounded The Adventures of Rapunzel, by Megan Morrison, at Log Cabin Library
Happenstance Found, by P.W. Catanese, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
The Hollow Boy, by Jonathan Stroud, at The Zen Leaf
The Jumbies, by Tracy Baptiste, at Kirkus (Leila Roy's column)
The Land Without Color, by at This Kid Reviews Books
The Last Hunt, by Bruce Coville, at Read Till Dawn
The Lord of the Hat, by Obert Skye, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Lost Girl, by R.L. Stine, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Mars Evacuees, by Sophia McDougall, at Bibliobrit
The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel, at Falling Letters
Nightbird, by Alice Hoffman, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Ordinary Princess, by M.M. Kaye, at alibrarymama
Over the Sea's Edge, by Jane Louise Curry, at Charlotte's Library
A Pocket Full of Murder, by R.J. Anderson, at The Book Wars
The Scary School series, by Derek the Ghost, at Always in the Middle
Seabourne: The Lost Prince, by Matt Myklusch, at Michelle I. Mason
A Sliver of Stardust, by Marissa Burt, at The Write Path
This Isn't What It Looks Like, and You Have to Stop This, by Pseudonymous Bosch, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
The Tournament at Gorlan, by John Flannagan, at On Starships and Dragonwings
The Toymaker's Apprentice, by Sherri L. Smith, at Teen Librarian Toolbox and Finding Wonderland
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, by Kelly Jones, at Charlotte's Library
Willie and Me: a Baseball Card Adventure, by Dan Gutman, at Time Travel Times Two
"Mermaids, Pirates, and Terrifying Tales | Middle Grade Series Update" a slew of mini reviews at SLJ
Two at Ms. Yingling Reads: The League of Unexceptional Children, by Gitty Daneshvari, and The Fate of Ten, by Pittacus Lore
Authors and Interviews
Sherri L. Smith (The Toymaker's Apprentice) at The O.W.L. and The Book Smugglers
Rick Riordan at Entertainment Weekly
Other Good Stuff
Six great MG fantasies starring Sisters, a list by me at BNKids Blog
Shannon Hale kicks of a Stories For All Series of authors guest posting at her blog; here's her own and then you can go to the homepage of her blog and read them all!
How R.L. Stine "became the king of kids' horror" at The Boston Globe
A list of nicely spooky MG reads at Youth Literature Reviews, and another at Postcards from La-La Land
Dark Horse comics to publish graphic novels of the How To Train Your Dragon series (via Galley Cat)
A Tuesday Ten of Alternate Histories at Views from the Tesseract
This mermaid miniature house by artist Peter Gabel is utterly gorgeous; more pictures here at Messynessy and theyt are close ups and they are worth looking at because they are lovely!
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