Secondhand Dogs Book Review Hello friends. I hope you enjoyed your weekend and had some sunshine in your neighborhood to celebrate any mothers in your life. Today I have a book review and an interview with the author. It’s always fun to get an inside peek into a creative person’s life and their creative process….
Hello and welcome to Telling Stories. Today, in addition to a middle grade book review, I’m excited to share with you an interview with the author, Rachel Selle. Rachel is from New Hampshire, by way of Alaska, and currently lives in Germany, where she teaches second grade. This is her first published novel. Gail: Thank…
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher, is a bit of upper middle grade magical realism for 11-14-year-olds. The story starts with a dead body in the bakery. Not just dead, but murdered. The bakery is in a village where magic is commonplace and the only magic that the main character, 14-year-old Mona,…
I hope you enjoyed my review of Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On In the World Today , but now, it’s back to middle grade fiction. Granted by John David Anderson, published by Walden Pond Press (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) in 2018 is a middle-grade fairy story about wishes. The…
There’s a book that just came on the market, and its title says it all: Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On In the World Today by Olivia Seltzer and published by Philomel Books. Seltzer, now 18, started the Cramm newsletter when she was just 13 to help explain to other kids…
I mentioned Robert Louis Stevenson in my post Imagination & Creation. He is best known for books like Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But also for A Child’s Garden of Verses. First published in 1885, it contains 64 poems. Stevenson was a sickly child in Scotland and dedicated the book to his…
