There’s nothing more special than spending time alone with a grandmother. You can do different things with Grandma, things that perhaps your parents wouldn’t dream of doing or just don’t have the time. Alyssa loves spending time with her Grandma. She loves doing things with...

Magic is All Around Us by Gary Green is the first book of The Rebecca Pendragon Trilogy. The main character is a young girl named Rebecca, who lost her father when she was young and just lost her mother in a car accident. Now an...

The Last Timekeepers and the Dark Secret by Sharon Ledwith is a young adult fantasy. Jordan and the other timekeepers go back in time to stop Crowley from changing history. They find themselves in Nazi-controlled Amsterdam in 1942. While Crowley has integrated himself into the...

Mike Shelton's The Dragon Rider, the second installment of The Alaris Chronicles, starts where the first book left off. Bakari, now a Dragon Rider, is trying to make sense of his new role in life by visiting Mahli, his ancestral land. Bak learns more about...

Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone begins with the last of the Conjure Cats, Topaz, taking the oath to succeed his friend, the King of Knownotten. Knownotten is a wonderful fantasy land inhabited by a variety of unforgettable beings. There are Elves, Fawns, Raccoons, Gnomes, Witches,...

A little boy and a folding circus tent is the focus of The Travelling Circus – a new children’s book by Mark Watson. As the little boy begins to have fun folding and unfolding his perfect gift of a circus tent, an imaginative story begins...

The Seasons of a Giant by Pamela Hartley is a children’s fictional fantasy book. This is a book that would appeal most to children and young adults who enjoy fantasy fiction with magic and monsters, and who do not mind a few scary parts. Isabel...

The Crows of Ticklewick by Phaishonne Danzie is a charming story about a family of crows. The family consists of the parents, and two young crows named Toolie and Forteist. The father is concerned that they may not survive the big freeze, and they have...

Ronald Craig deliberately draws on his experiences of life and his work to write children’s fiction with a specific purpose: subtle guidance through the dangers, temptations, and challenges they must face as they grow up. “Never trust a stranger.” “Lies hurt the liar.” “Be brave”...

Dawdledale is a very mundane, dreary town. Everyone does what they’re supposed to do: they go to work, they go to school, they take care of the house. Everything is very neat and orderly and everything happens exactly when and how it should. That is...