TTT is by The Broke and the Bookish. Steph The Winnie the Pooh books are simply plagued by being a product of their time and for children. Still, if you are immature and enjoy a good giggle, sometimes Pooh books just have bad titles. Punny titles like the YA series Pretty Crooked can …
Paperback, 256 pages Expected publication: March 10th 2015 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher The Ugly One is set in Peru during the times of the Incan people. The protagonist of the novel is a girl called Micay who is left disfigured after an incident during her childhood. The …
I realized that we Book Warriors hadn’t yet done a review of Maleficent, Disney’s newest Sleeping Beauty retelling from the perspective of the antagonist – Maleficent. Now, Sleeping Beauty was always one of my favourite movies as a little girl. I remember arguing fervently with my little sister that the blue dress was way prettier than …
Grace Mae knows madness. She keeps it locked away, along with her voice, trapped deep inside a brilliant mind that cannot forget horrific family secrets. Those secrets, along with the bulge in her belly, land her in a Boston insane asylum. When her voice returns in a burst of violence, …
[The teeny, pixelated cover image on Goodreads annoyed me, so I used my own.] It has been ten years since Ram’s return from fallen Lanka. Ayodhya is shining. Ayodhya is prosperous. But darkness lurks at the heart of the victrorious regime. A pointed question piques a young journalist’s curiousity: What happened to …
Let’s start with the original tale: Charles Perrault’s “Toads and Diamonds.” This fairy tale, as in so many others, begins with three women: a widow and her two daughters. The widow is bad-tempered and favours her elder daughter, who has a similarly bad disposition. The younger daughter, good-natured and lovely, is …
Jane by April Lindner 384 pages Published October 11th, 2010 by Poppy Source: Library (I own a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte) Synopsis of Jane: Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job …
TTT is by The Broke and the Bookish. Janet Sophie Hatter, of course! Sophie Hatter (later, Sophie Pendragon) finds that adverse changes in her life let her be herself, rather more than she had let herself be for a long time. Read the book if that sentence doesn’t make sense. Sophie …
Hardcover, 40 pages Expected publication: March 10th 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Source: Publisher The writing: The writing is okay but it’s not the fun, springy kind of writing that I usually associate with picturebooks. I don’t know if this is because is about math (bleh) or it’s …
Hardcover, 32 pages Expected publication: March 17th 2015 by Groundwood Books Source: Publisher Sidewalk Flowers follows in the wordless tradition of The Arrival by Shaun Tan by setting forth for the reader a narrative unencumbered by words. The premise is simple enough: a little girl is out on an errand with her …
