I review children’s books from picture books to YA for Armadillo Magazine, The Children’s Book Review, iReadBooks Tours and was a former reviewer for the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Here you’ll find links to all of those reviews, guest posts, author interviews and giveaways.
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Book Review + Giveaway: Freedom’s Game
Title: Freedom’s Game | Author: Rosanne Tolin | Genre: Middle Grade | Publisher: Reycraft Books/Benchmark Education | Release Date: October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 9781478876199 Publisher’s Book Summary: Publisher’s Book Summary: Twelve-year-old Ziggy Wirth, originally from Germany, doesn’t know what to expect when he arrives at the Annemasse orphanage in eastern France. It is 1942, and the Nazis have…
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Review + Giveaway: What Bear Said about Life, Love, & Other Stuff
Title: What Bear Said about Life, Love, & Other Stuff | Author: Jack Wiens | Illustrator: Jack Wiens | Genre: Junior Fiction | Publisher: Torchflame Books | Publication Date: October 15, 2024 Book Description: The boy has a lot of questions—hard ones about love, honesty, grief and loss, prejudice, forgiveness, why we are here, and more. Bear’s wise answers are always offered with…
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Arabella and the Magic Pencil: A New Slovak Edition
Or should I say “Arabela“? What an absolute surprise and delight to see the first foreign language edition of Arabella and the Magic Pencil released in Slovakia. I think the title in this beautiful language looks absolutely stunning on the cover. It’s such a joy to me that there are children in a country I…
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The Children’s Book Review Reviews Allen the Alien
A fabulous review from a fabulous review site…plus a really cool photo on photo. So good! Allen the Alien by Stephanie Ward & Aleck Morton | Book Review The Children’s Book Review is my go-to reference for kid lit, so if you’re interested in children’s books, this is the site for you. Check out their…
