Wolfgang Parker talks Crime Cats – Clintonville based mystery series
Wolfgang Parker, author of the Crime Cats mystery series Missing (Volume 1) and The Dusenbury Curse (Volume 2), talks about the books and the inspiration to wri...
Tag: chapter books
The Icy Hand (Something Wickedly Weird #2) by Chris Mould
I went ahead and read The Icy Hand, the second book in the Something Wickedly Weird series, even though I wasn’t all that impressed with the first. Even m...
The Sandman and the War of Dreams (The Guardians #4) by William Joyce
There is a great sense of mystery and magic lurking behind these stories; they seem like mythology weaved from shared memories and folklore. Just different enou...
The Sandman and the War of Dreams (The Guardians #4) by William Joyce
There is a great sense of mystery and magic lurking behind these stories; they seem like mythology weaved from shared memories and folklore. Just different enou...
Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
This was an example of a middle grade book that was quite different than the more detailed and complex young adult books I have read. This is more like a chapt...
Voyage with the Vikings by Paul McCusker, Marianne Hering (Imagination Station #1)
With that in mind, it is fairly well done. Given its length and style it is not surprisingly rather thin on character development and suspense. But it has an i...
Voyage with the Vikings by Paul McCusker, Marianne Hering (Imagination Station #1)
With that in mind, it is fairly well done. Given its length and style it is not surprisingly rather thin on character development and suspense. But it has an i...
Toothiana: Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies by William Joyce
In case you haven’t been scoring at home, I picked up The Guardians series (in a box set actually) because I liked the picture books that inspired them an...
The Basilisk's Lair by R.L. LaFevers
Cute and well packaged series - not enough suspense or imagination for me to continue to read but recommended for age appropriate readers.
A Giant Problem by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
I will confess that I enjoy reading young adult fiction and even chapter books. There is something about the creativity when combined with the illustrations t...