Book Review: Aliki’s Quiet in the Garden
A children’s picture about about being Quiet in the Garden and how it allows you to see and hear so much in that not-so-quiet garden.
Category: Target Audience
Book Review: Michael Bond’s Paddington
A suitcase, jars of marmalade, and a label requesting care accompanies a small bear from Peru on the adventure of a lifetime, as he stows away for England.
Book Review: Jenna Black’s Nightstruck
It starts with a cry in the night, an unexpected evil that transforms Philadelphia and the weak into nightmares, causing the city to come alive with horrors.
Book Review: Chris D’Lacey’s Gauge
Lucy’s mother intends to stop Councilman Trustable and the town council from demolishing the old clock. But can a timing dragon really help?
Book Review: Emily Rodda’s The Wizard of Rondo
After fiddling with the box while Mimi was away, Leo Zifkak and his cousin must put the world of Rondo to rights and find a missing wizard and free an innocent man.
Book Review: Sarah Prineas’ The Magic Thief
Having survived pickpocketing Nevery’s locus magicalicus, the wizard takes Conn on as an apprentice, even as they race to discover who or what is stealing the city’s magic.
Book Review: Chris D’Lacey’s Gruffen
When Lucy suspects there’s a ‘monster’ in her bedroom, her mum knows exactly what to do. Liz makes a guard dragon, Gruffen, to look after her…
Book Review: Helen Lester’s All For Me and None For All
Gruntly is a hog who refuses to share and is quite happy to take. And is he in for a surprise when he discovers the true treasure at the end of the hunt!
Book Review: Tom Lichtenheld’s What are YOU So Grumpy About?
Excuses, excuses that can lead from grumpy to funny to giggly in this picture book for two- to six-year-old readers.
Book Review: Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis’ The Revenge of the Shadow King
Max Sumner and his three best friends, Harley, Ernie, and Natalia, find themselves caught up in the quest to save their town when the creatures from their card game come to life.