Emma and the Silk Thieves by Matthew S. Cox is the second book in the Tales of Widowswood series and it picks up from where Book One, Emma and the Banderwigh, finishes. Emma, the protagonist in the story, is a ten-year-old who lives with her...

The Inflatables by Sara Gurule is a delightful Christmas story about Santa's secret army. Christmas is everyone's favorite time of year. Everyone except Old Man Tubbs. He doesn't have any decorations or holiday cheer. He's been on the naughty list since childhood and now holds...

In The Third Kind of Magic (Crow Magic, Book 1) by Elizabeth Forest, 12-year-old Suli Wing wants to apprentice as a wise woman. When she accidentally used magic on a girl who bullied her brother, her grandmother sent her to another village to train with...

Emma and the Banderwigh: Tales of Widowswood Book 1 by Matthew S. Cox is a fantastical children's story that revolves around ten-year-old Emma who lives with her parents, her brother Tam, and her Nan in a small two-bedroom house. Her mother helps in the village...

Twins Ollie and Lily are stranded at Great-Uncle Alfred’s house along with their mother, Stella, at Great Hawkesden Manor during Christmas in The Secret of Pooks Wood by Helen Laycock. The twins find a snow globe outside the house and inside the globe is a...

Lucy and the Tunnel is a children’s book written and illustrated by J.S. Rumble. Held hostage at a wake after her Aunt Bessie’s funeral, eleven-year-old Lucy tries to think of a way to save her family from Clarinda – a gun-toting distant relative who demands...

All the other children at Bastilly’s School for the Ungifted, Average, and Unchosen tease Saskia and call her a freak. After a particularly terrible day, in which her class is more shocked than entertained by her fairy tale presentation, Saskia runs home through the Spooky...

Bump and the Family Tree by T.D. Ashcraft is intriguingly clever. It is a picture book likely to appeal to children who are invariably attracted by lots of colour. There is also a great deal going on in most of the illustrations, which would keep...

Miss Kelly is teaching her class about the old days in the opening scene of Princess In a Book by John M. Giles. She is telling her students an ancient mythical story that is set in a land known as Midland. It is about a...

Christmas is only two weeks away and Alicia is bubbling with excitement in Alicia and the Light Bulb People in Star Factory 13 by Barbara Roman. Alicia has been asked by her mother to choose a lamp with a personality for her room as a...