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The Book: Scarface Claw, Hold Tight! What It’s About Scarface Claw finds a comfy spot to sleep in the sun on a car, but then it zooms off with him still on top! Will anyone get Tom’s attention to help Scarface down? Why It’s Awesome In my house, Lynley Dodd is the gold standard of […]
THE BOOK: Pointy Pembleton Visits The Dog Park What It’s About: Pointy Pembleton is a greyhound who’s just been rescued visiting his local dog park for the first time – but the other dogs think he’s a bit different and wierd and won’t play. Will Pointy ever find a friend? Why It’s Awesome: Well it’s […]
The Book: The Very Sleepy Bear Who’s It By? Nick Bland – author of The Very Cranky Bear, The Very Brave Bear, (I’m sensing a theme) and King Pig What’s It About? A bear just wants to hibernate but a fox sees an opportunity and tries to sell him some new real estate Why Should […]
I’ve always had a fascination with portals to magical worlds. There’s a proliferation of children’s stories with children getting whisked away to fairy tale locales – Narnia, The Far-away Tree, Wonderland, Oz, Never-Never Land. In Every Heart A Doorway, Seanan Maguire asks the question – what happens to the children who come back? Eleanor West’s Home for […]
Note: This book was provided to me free of charge by the publisher in exchange for an honest review I don’t think I’ve been as excited for a novel for a while as this one because I love when books take place in my home town of Brisbane. It’s fun to look at the landmarks […]
Note: This book was provided to me free of charge by the publisher in exchange for an honest review PopSugar Reading Challenge: A Book That Takes Place During Summer I’m on a bit of an apocalypse/dystopian kick at the moment aren’t I? It seems to be a really popular genre this year so there’s heaps […]
Note: This book was provided to me by the publisher free of charge in exchange for an honest review. PopSugar Reading Challenge Prompt: A Book Published in 2016 Fantasy goes through phases. When the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released, everything went sort of Tokien-esque. Everything was beautiful elves imparting wisdom to fragile humans […]
Note: I received this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review If there’s one thing I love more than an apocalyptic superflu dystopia, it’s anything Arthurian. The King Arthur legends were something I read and re-read as a child and even as an adult, I’ll read or watch anything that even […]
From one dystopia to another. Look I’ll be honest, I am cheating a little here – Station Eleven was only a finalist for the National Book Awards. I struggled to find anything that looked interesting to me on the list of winners. They are all pretty heavy literary type tomes and for once I decided […]
I chose Joe Hill’s latest for this category because I love love love love everything he writes and I knew the 700+ pages would fly by like magic. I discovered him only a couple years ago when I read Heart Shaped Box and I’ve been an avid fan ever since. I’ve been looking forward to his latest […]