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Top Ten Tuesday: Spooooooky (or Not-So Spooky!) Picture Books
Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s focus is all about our top ten Halloween favourites! Here is my selection of top…eleven…not-so-scary picture books. Some are funny, some are gently spooky, some are more contemplative, some surprising, all are… Read more
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Picture Book Review: Friend or Foe? by John Sobol & Dasha Tolstikova
Friend or Foe? by John Sobol, illus. Dasha Tolstikova Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Groundwood Books. Thank you! Publication: October 1, 2016 by Groundwood Books Book Description: “A lonely mouse lived in a small house beside a great palace. In the great palace lived a cat.” Each night the mouse gazes up at the cat in… Read more
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Must Read Monday (52): Lucy by Randy Cecil & Ollie’s Odyssey by William Joyce
Welcome to another edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: titles from Randy Cecil and William Joyce! Lucy,… Read more
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Picture Book Review: The Storybook Knight by Helen Docherty & Thomas Docherty
The Storybook Knight by Helen Docherty, illus. Thomas Docherty Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: September 6, 2016 by Sourcebooks Book Description: Even dragons love a good story… Leo was a gentle knight in thought and word and deed. While other knights liked fighting, Leo liked to sit and read… When Leo’s… Read more
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Review: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have (Timmy Failure #5) by Stephan Pastis
Review: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have (Timmy Failure #5) by Stephan Pastis Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada/Candlewick Press. Thank you! Publication: September 27, 2016 by Candlewick Press Book Description: Banishment from his life’s calling can’t keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times bestseller… Read more
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Review: We’re All in This Together by Amy Jones
Review: We’re All in This Together by Amy Jones Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Penguin Canada via First Reads. Thank you! Publication: June 7, 2016 by McClelland & Stewart Book Description: A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into meltdown — life is about to get a lot more complicated… Read more
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Blog Tour: Speed of Life by J.M. Kelly
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for J.M. Kelly’s contemporary YA title, Speed of Life! Read on for my thoughts on the book as well as a special excerpt from the novel! Speed of Life by J.M. Kelly Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: October 11,… Read more
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Blog Tour: Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me by Philippa Dowding
Welcome to one of the stops on the Dundurn Press blog tour for Canadian author Philippa Dowding’s Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me! I am delighted to present a detailed interview I had the wonderful chance to do with Philippa, as well as a review of Everton Miles is Stranger Than Me, Philippa’s latest middle… Read more
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Review: Bera the One-Headed Troll by Eric Orchard
Review: Bera the One-Headed Troll by Eric Orchard Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: August 2, 2016 by First Second Book Description: Bera doesn’t ask for much in life. She’s a solitary, humble troll, tending her island pumpkin patch in cheerful isolation. She isn’t looking for any trouble. But when trouble comes… Read more
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