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Coming up: Blog Tour for Sarah McGuire’s The Flight of Swans!
This week is the Thomas Allen & Son blog tour for Sarah McGuire’s The Flight of Swans, a middle grade novel based on The Six Swans fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm! Hope you are able to come back here on Thursday, October 18th when I will be sharing my thoughts on the book, as Read more
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In the meantime, here’s a comic…
As I attempt to recover from another bout of strep throat/sinus infection, please enjoy this latest from Tom Gauld. I can’t help myself. Also! Look forward to a pretty fabulous bookish giveaway coming shortly! (Hint: it features a character named Bruce). Read more
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Picture Book Giveaway: The Day You Begin & Julián Is a Mermaid!
Happy weekend and happy giveaway time! Due to generous publisher extras and finished copies, here are two recently read and beautiful titles I would like to give readers in Canada a chance to win and enjoy! The two picture books up for giveaway: The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López Julián Is Read more
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Spotlight on ILLUSTORIA Magazine!
Let’s take a dive into ILLUSTORIA magazine! Illustoria is a print magazine for creative kids & their grownups. We celebrate visual storytelling, makers and DIY culture through stories, art, comics, interviews, crafts and activities. Our high-quality, tri-annual publication is geared toward readers ages 6–12 and the young at heart.- via ILLUSTORIA I recently had the Read more
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Messing with librarians leads to regret…
Love this! A comic “on how librarians might just take over the world” from Tom Gauld, one of my favourite cartoonists/artists: (Also: hope you’re enjoying my site’s new look!) Read more
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Coming Up: Blog Tour for Leila Sales’ latest YA & more!
The blog tour for Leila Sales’ latest young adult title, If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, begins on April 29th and it will be stopping here on May 2nd! Do stop by and check out my thoughts on Sales’ contemporary, timely story. I have had such a string of wonderful- truly excellent- reads Read more
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#PlayTestShare Giveaway: Spring Break 2018!
I am delighted to be hosting a Spring Break 2018 round of #PlayTestShare, courtesy of the lovely and generous folks at Raincoast Books! Open to Canadian residents, ages 18 and up, one lucky person will have the chance to win one of the amazing #PlayTestShare items below! I had the chance to play and test Read more
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Calvin Shares His Learning…
Oof. It’s been a while since last post! Still waiting on the arrival of baby, and life is nuts! Look forward to a special Valentine’s Day giveaway post coming up and more reviews of beautiful titles… In the meantime, though, please enjoy this Calvin & Hobbes comic. I just love it. The power of learning Read more
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Hello, 2018…
Whew! Made it to 2018! I managed to get my Best of 2017 posts under the wire- hope all of you lovely readers have been enjoying my vast array of picks! Looking back at the reading year, 2017 really was picture book and children’s lit (middle grade) intensive, with a small but very, very strong Read more
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And Now For Something Completely Different: Tea Time with Adagio Teas!
As the title of the post suggests (thank you, Monty Python!), this post does indeed feature something a little bit different for this site. I was recently contacted by the very kind and generous folks at Adagio Teas, asking if I was interested in sampling, trying, and putting something together about TEA! As someone who Read more
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