It seems strange to call a book about poor orphans and dark magic charming, but that is the first word I thought of when I read The Lost and Drowned by Stuart Fryd. The central characters of the novella are two sisters, Lydia and Sophie....

Fractured: Dereck Dillinger and the Crystal Ball is a children’s adventure fantasy novel written by Eddie McPherson. Dereck had been about to go for an afternoon of fun at the fair with his friends when his mom called to say she’d been held up at...

The Halloween Parade (Monstacademy) by Matt Beighton is an awesome book about a young girl named Trixie Grimble. When her school shuts down, Trixie is sent to Monroe's Academy for the different, known as Monstacademy, which is a school for monsters. Except Trixie Grimble is...

The Language Thieves is a young adult fantasy by Marc Remus. Sixteen-year-old Daniel is none too happy about his father’s decision to move the family from Arizona to a remote Scottish island, of all places. His mother was stricken by a mysterious illness that has...

Tata’s Earrings by Desiree Calderon de Fawaz is the story of Maya who lived in an ordinary town. She lived with her granny, Tata, who always made her smile. Tata was exceptional and could knit with her toes while balancing upside down and she could...

Zuri and the Monster by Tanisha Chambers is a darling bedtime picture book, short and sweet with soothing colors in the many illustrations. After Zuri’s mom reads a bedtime story, Zuri usually goes right to sleep, but not this time! Zuri hears a monster squeaking...

Laurel loves plants: flowers, trees, vegetables, even weeds. Her mother hates anything that grows in the dirt. Or so she leads Laurel to believe. That was before things became rather strange. Before Laurel’s home, the apartment she shares with her mother, turns into a jungle,...

My immediate reaction to You Are My Favorite Song, even before I was half way through, was, ''I want a print copy of this book for my grandson." A children's book with a difference, this book comprises a stunning collection of the author's artworks. A...

‘Whether we’re all together, or we’re far apart--we know in our hearts we have each other. We’ll be far and yet so near!’ The Adventures of Fawn: Far and Yet So Near by Al E.Boy is the third book in the series about young reindeer...

Mind-Swapping Madness (Bonkers Short Stories Book 1) written by Tom E Moffatt and illustrated by Paul Beavis is a collection of seven short stories involving characters who, one way or another, swap minds into another person or animal’s body. In one story, a kid uses...