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  • Review: Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks

    Review: Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks

    Review: Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: February 12, 2019 by Roaring Brook Press Book Description: A sweet, funny contemporary teen romance for the inner geek in all of us from graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks. Miriam’s family should be rich. After all,… Read more


    March 13, 2019

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    Reviews, Young Adult
    canadian lit, comics, contemporary ya, faith erin hicks, reviews, very good, Young Adult
  • Picture Book Review & Giveaway for Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up!

    Picture Book Review & Giveaway for Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up!

    Welcome to a special post featuring a review and giveaway for the lovely picture book Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up, a collaboration from the Canadian duo of author Jane Whittingham and illustrator Emma Pederson! The author and Pajama Press are very kindly offering one Canadian reader a chance to win a copy of Queenie Quail… Read more


    March 10, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    canadian lit, children’s, emma pedersen, excellent, giveaways, jane whittingham, picture books, read alouds, storytime, very good
  • Great Picture Books! (22)

    Great Picture Books! (22)

    Welcome to another round-up of recently read and recommended picture books! In no particular order, here are the titles: let’s start off with the deliciously screwball- and beautifully illustrated- That’s Not a Hippopotamus! by Juliette MacIver, illustrated by Sarah Davis, about a class trip to the zoo that goes awry when a hippopotamus goes missing… Read more


    March 5, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    andrea tsurumi, caron levis, children’s, dianne white, excellent, funny, good, great picture books, julie flett, juliette maciver, katherena vermette, leuyen pham, maira chiodi, oge mora, picture books, read alouds, reviews, robin page, sarah davis, sharee miller, storytime, troy wilson, very good
  • Graphic Novel Review: Click by Kayla Miller

    Graphic Novel Review: Click by Kayla Miller

    Review: Click by Kayla Miller (additional color by Katherine Efird, design by Andrea Miller) Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: January 8, 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: For fans of Smile and Real Friends comes a debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you click” in middle school. Olive… Read more


    March 3, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    children’s, contemporary, excellent, graphic novels, katherine efird, kayla miller, middle grade, very good
  • Review: Past Due for Murder (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #3) by Victoria Gilbert

    Review: Past Due for Murder (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #3) by Victoria Gilbert

    Review: Past Due for Murder (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #3) by Victoria Gilbert Source: ARC courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: February 12, 2019 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As… Read more


    February 27, 2019

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    Adult Fiction, Reviews
    adult fiction, contemporary, cozy mystery, mystery, reviews, very good, victoria gilbert
  • Blog Tour Stop for Eileen Cook’s You Owe Me a Murder!

    Blog Tour Stop for Eileen Cook’s You Owe Me a Murder!

    Welcome to one of the last stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for Canadian author Eileen Cook‘s latest YA novel, You Owe Me a Murder!  Read on for my thoughts on the novel as well as a Q&A with Eileen. Be sure to take a look at the postcard at the bottom of the… Read more


    February 22, 2019

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    Reviews, Young Adult
    blog tour, canadian lit, contemporary ya, eileen cook, good, mystery, reviews, Young Adult
  • Review & Giveaway: It’s the End When I Say It’s the End by Stephan Pastis

    Review & Giveaway: It’s the End When I Say It’s the End by Stephan Pastis

    Review and giveaway time! Courtesy of the very kind folks at Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House Canada, I have book seven in Stephan Pastis‘s Timmy Failure series, It’s the End When I Say It’s the End. Read on for my thoughts on the book and information on how Canadian residents can enter to win a copy!… Read more


    February 21, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    children’s, excellent, funny, giveaways, graphic novels, middle grade, reviews, stephan pastis, very good
  • Coming Up: Blog Tour for Eileen Cook’s You Owe Me A Murder!

    Coming Up: Blog Tour for Eileen Cook’s You Owe Me A Murder!

    Hi there readers! What a week. A week’s plans for posting, reading, reviewing, and general life stuff kind of all went to pot as our entire family, yours truly included, got sick!! It has been exhausting to say the least…but hopefully we are all on the mend! Anyhow, in much more pleasant news, I am… Read more


    February 17, 2019

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    Uncategorized, Young Adult
    blog tours, eileen cook, Young Adult
  • Picture Book Reviews & Titles to Celebrate Friendship, Love & Kindness

    Picture Book Reviews & Titles to Celebrate Friendship, Love & Kindness

    Valentine’s Day is indeed coming up, and it’s typically a time when picture books with themes about friendship, gentle meditations on love, and stories about being kind to one another are often in higher than usual demand! I thought now would be a great time to look at some new picture books fitting the themes… Read more


    February 10, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    book lists, canadian lit, children’s, funny, good, megan hess, mike kerr, picture books, read alouds, renata liwska, reviews, seasonal, storytime, t.l. mcbeth, valentine’s day, very good
  • Children’s Fiction Reviews: The Ghost Road & Louisiana’s Way Home

    Children’s Fiction Reviews: The Ghost Road & Louisiana’s Way Home

    Let’s take a look at two children’s fiction titles I’ve had the pleasure of reading: The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter and Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo- a pretty incredible duo of acclaimed authors! Thank you to the lovely folks at Tundra Books, Candlewick Press, and Penguin Random House Canada!     “Don’t you see?… Read more


    February 5, 2019

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    Children’s, Reviews
    canadian lit, charis cotter, children’s, contemporary, excellent, kate dicamillo, middle grade, mystery, very good
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