Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg, for Timeslipe Tuesday

My dear sisters and their children have left, and the house is still and empty...and I can't find the book I was meaning to write about ...

Horton Halfpott or The fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor or The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

July is the cruelest month for blogging. One (ie me) has so many things keeping reading and writing at bay-- things like major home improve...

This Sunday's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (7/30/2012)

Here are the results of my internet grazing (picture of grazing sci fi sheep at right found at Light Reading ). Please let me know if I miss...

Shadow Spell, by Caro King

When I read Seven Sorcerers , by Caro King, last year ( my review ), my only complaint was that the book ended. It had great world buildin...

The Sherwood Ring, by Elizabeth Marie Pope, for Timeslip Tuesday

The Sherwood Ring , by Elizabeth Marie Pope (1958), is one I wavered about ever putting in the "time slip" category, because ...

RIP Margaret Mahy

Another sad loss-- Margaret Mahy is gone . I've only ever reviewed one of her books ( Madigan's Fantasia ), but I've read and e...

This Sunday's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (7/23/2012)

Here's another week of what I found in my blogging of interest to fans of middle grade sci fi and fantasy! Please let me know if I miss...

The Chairs are Where the People Go, by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti

These last two days where life inside my home (as opposed to Work, and The Great Outdoors), have mostly been all about the dining room floor...

The books my 12 year old got for his birthday

When my boys have their birthdays, I like to make a small record of the books they got...my oldest is now 12, and though not a Reader in the...

Cinder, by Marissa Meyer

Cinder , by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends, January 2012) counts both for my multicultural sci fi/fantasy list , and my fairy tale rete...

John Jensen Feels Different, by Henrik Hovland

Every so often a picture book comes across my path that tickles my fancy so much that I have to share it. And if it can kind of count as f...

Ghosts of the Titanic, by Julie Lawson, for Timeslip Tuesday

Ghosts of the Titanic, by Julie Lawson (Holiday House, originally published in Canada in 2011; reprinted in the US, with some revisions, in ...

Castaway Blobs #3

This particular adventure of the Castaway Blobs! is rather appealing on this horribly hot evening....(feel free to click to enlarge).

StoryWorld: Quests and Adventures (create a story kit)

Back in 2010, Candlewick brought out the first US edition of StoryWorld --a boxed set of forty intricately illustrated cards, created by Jo...

This Sunday's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (7/15/2012)

Welcome to another gathering of what I gathered in my blog reading this week that's of interest to us fans of middle grade sci fi/fantas...

The Scary Places Map Book, by B.G. Hennessy, illustrated by Erwin Madrid

The Scary Places Map Book: Seven Terrifying Tours , by B.G. Hennessy, illustrated by Erwin Madrid (Candlewick, July 10, 2012, for kids 5, o...

A sequel to Odd and the Frost Giants!

Just a quick postlet to say how happy my 9 year old son and I are to have learned that there's a sequel to Odd and the Frost Giants, by...

Why I didn't have a time slip Tuesday review

July is my busiest time of year, what with house renovations (dining room from hell), gardening, children (as usual), and, in as much as sum...

Dead Reckoning, by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill

Dead Reckoning , by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill (Bloomsbury, June 2012, YA) is a science fictional story of zombies in Victorian ...

This Sunday's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (7/8/2012)

Welcome to another week's engatherment of what I found in my blog reading pertaining to middle grade (ages 9-12) science fiction and fa...

Enchanted, by Alethea Kontis

I'm a bit late to the party viz Enchanted , by Aletha Kontis. It's been out for a while, and has been reviewed lots. However, the ...

Cold fantasy for a hot summer's day--revisited with new additions

My heart goes out to all of you suffering in the horrible heat here in the US. We are not particularly suffering in southern New England at ...