This was one of those weeks where I didn't get to my blog reader (I use bloglovin) till yesterday, and then after checking 5 posts of over 700 I accidently clicked "mark all as read" and so in order to find the mg spec reviews, I went to each blog on my list individually which took ages and was rather sad, because so many of the blogs I follow are moribund. So if I missed your post, this would be why, because it was rather difficult to stay focused.....
The Reviews
Beetle Boy, by MG Leonard at The Book Zone (for boys)
Bounders, by Monica Tesler, at The Book Wars and Charlotte's Library
The Cat Who Came in off the Roof, by Annie Schmidt, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Changeling Sea, by Patricia McKillip, at Fantasy Book Café (more all ages, really, than MG, but I'm always eager to plug McKillip's books!)
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle, by Janet Fox, at The Booklist Reader
Criminal Destiny, by Gordon Korman, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Dragon of Trelian, by Michelle Knudsen, at Read Till Dawn
The Dungeoneers, by John David Anderson, at Semicolon
Fires of Invention, by J. Scott Savage, at This Kid Reviews Books
The Fog Diver, by Joel Ross, at Semicolon
The Goblin's Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice, by Andrew S. Chilton, at Librarian of Snark
Jungle Jim and the Shadows of Kinabalu, by James King, at Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books
My Diary From the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson, at Ex Libris
The Night Parade, by Kathryn Tnaquary, at Cracking the Cover
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate, at The Children's Book Review
The Ruins of Gorlath (Rangers Apprentice book 1) at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels, and also Book 2, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9, Book 10, Book 11, and Book 12 and then keep scrolling for the first 4 Brotherband chronicles.
Rise of the Wolf, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Read Till Dawn and Cracking the Cover
Secrets of Valhalla, by Jasmine Richards, at Librarian of Snark
Shadows of Sherwood, by Kekla Magoon, at Welcome to ny (New) Tweendom
Vison of the Griffin's Heart, by LRW Lee, at This Kid Reviews Books and Log Cabin Library
Zaia Fierce and the Secret of Gloomwood, by Keira Gillet, at Log Cabin Library
Two at alibrarymama--The Forgotten Sisters, by Shannon Hale, and Nomad, by William Alexander
Authors and Interviews
Lisa Papademetriou (A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic) at Cynsations (giveaway)
Margaret Chiavetta (The Alchemist's Theorem: Sir Duffy's Promise), at Nayu's Reading Corner
Keira Gillet (Zaria Fierce series), at Mom Read It
Helen Moss (Secrets of the Tombs series), at Middle Grade Strikes Back
Kandi Wyatt (Dragon's Future) at Carpinello's Writing Pages
Marie C. Collins (A Brief Stay at Earth Human Camp), at Carpinello's Writing Pages
Other Good Stuff
Frances Hardinge's book, The Lie Tree, has won the Costa Book of the Year Award.
The Bodleian Library has made
a free dowloadable coloring book from its collections
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Hi Charlotte..I've been a twitter follower for a while now, I believe that may be how I found you..and I just recently signed up as an email follow...I'm always looking for ya/tween fantasy to promote on my blog, Thornton Berry Shire Press. For some reason I didn't get that you actually follow blogs to find posts relating to kid fantasy...I've already got seven posts set up for February and realized I should get my blog into your list, if you wouldn't mind. It's www.benjaminmctish.blogspot.com. I'm in process of changing over the URL to reflect the blog name, but this has been the URL for quite some time...thx for doing this work..it's such a challenge to find other blogs for ya/tweens that represent fantasy and it's genres..yay! good luck, june
ReplyDeleteCharlotte, thank you for doing this each week, I always look forward to checking out all of your links to reviews , interviews, and all the other things you come across!
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