New from Monarch Publishing! A middle grade fantasy novel entitled Children of The Ancient Heroes: Dreams and Nightmares by Russell Fellows. I grew up wishing that literary worlds like Narnia or Middle Earth were real places to explore. Fellows addresses this type of wanderlust. What if fantasy characters were social outcasts and had important roles to fulfill… Continue reading CHILDREN OF THE ANCIENT HEROES: A Remarkable Review by Kate Lundeen
Today, I have the honor and delight to introduce a fellow Matthews, North Carolina writer, Michelle Nott. Michelle is celebrating the publication of her debut picture book, Teddy, Let's Go (Enchanted Lion Books: December 2022). After the review, make sure you read my interviews with Michelle and Nahid Kazemi, the illustrator. It'll make you want to… Continue reading Teddy, Let's Go! A Debut Picture Book Review, Author & Illustrator Interviews, and a Giveaway!
Sleeping Bear Press keeps sending me books! Here are two that young readers (and pre-readers) in your life will enjoy. BECAUSE I'M NEWWho would have thought of writing a book from the point of view of the new child in the family? Author-illustrator Brad Sneed, that's who. The title page shows a little boy peering out the living room… Continue reading BECAUSE I'M NEW and LITTLE SOCK MAKES A FRIEND: Two Picture Books, One Giveaway
Congratulations to Carol-Ann Ruddy who won Two Thousand Years from last week's blog. Author Christa M. Miller could have subtitled Raccoon Rescue, The Kits and the Kids. Those four words pretty much summarizes this illustrated book that children in grades 2-3 will enjoy. Review Roxy, Rufus, and Renae are three young raccoons who are learning about life… Continue reading Raccoon Rescue: A Review
Mother's Day has never been a big event at our house. But as it came and went two weeks ago, I remembered that last year I gave my mother a little Mother's Day book. At the time, I suspected it would be one of my last Mother's Day gifts to her. I was right. My… Continue reading A Mother's Gift