it's time.

  {via}  It’s Wednesday.   I start school tonight and I couldn’t be more excited. Yes, I am definitely one of those people.   Meaning...

The Queen of Water, by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango

Sometimes I'm lucky enough to meet a book that is my personal ideal of what a novel is supposed to be. Riveting and utterly engaging, ...

The Haunting of Charity Delafield, by Ian Beck (Waiting on Wednesday)

Over at Breaking the Spine , Jill hosts a meme called "Waiting on Wednesday," where bloggers share the books that they are looking...

i am the lucky one

This past weekend, I got to spend almost 3 full days with Ethan, which is hours and hours more than we usually get. The first night--Thursda...

A Long, Long Sleep, by Anna Sheehan, for Timeslip Tuesday

A Long, Long Sleep , by Anna Sheehan (Candlewick, YA, August 2011, 352 pages) Rose has slept in stasis for sixty-two years. When she is wok...

Feel the Force! A physics pop-up book by Tom Adams

Feel the Force! is a physics pop-up book by Tom Adams, illustrated by Thomas Flintham (Templar, Sept. 13, 2011, 20 pages), that explains th...

The Call for Cybils Panelists has gone out!!!!

Over at the Cybils Website , the call for panelists has gone out! Here's the information on what the panelists do, and how you can put ...

This Sunday's round-up of middle grade science fiction and fantasy from around the blogs

Welcome to the rainiest and windiest round-up to date of all the blog posts and news I could find of interest to us fans of middle grade (fo...

Aliens on Vacation, by Clete Barrett Smith

Aliens on Vacation , by Clete Barrett Smith (Hyperion, 2011, middle grade, 251 pages). Poor David (known as Scrub) is exiled from a sunny Fl...

Looking for kids of color in current middle-grade fantasy books

All of you who come here regularly know that I am rather keen on finding and reviewing mg sff with kids of color . So when The Enchanted ...

Two favorite books about angels in churches in honor of the National Cathedral

This poor broken angel on the roof of the National Cathedral, damaged by this week's earthquake, makes me awfully sad. The cathedral is...

i will love you, possibility

i like possibility. {source} and possibility  this time around looks like spending hours sitting on Google Maps...routing and re-routing roa...

books aren't much use when you need to brush your teeth

I'm in D.C. for a quick work related trip (just one night and one day). I brought six carefully chosen books, but forgot my toothbrush. ...

when imperfections and beauty intertwine

Lucy: That was awful. Aslan: But you chose it, Lucy. Lucy: I didn't mean to choose all of that. I just wanted to be beautiful like Susan...