What is your all-time favorite fairy tale? I think mine is Beauty and the Beast. What if the Beauty in the story really is the beast? Twist the original tale around and re-tell it and you can create another version of what it means to...

Imagination is a wonderful thing. You can make up so many fantasy worlds and lives and have a lot of fun creating a vision of costumes and all kinds of magical tools. Why not be a princess for a day (or two) and enjoy the...

As soon as I saw there was a second Brody Cody book up for review I grabbed it. Brody Cody and the Haunted Vacation House by Toni Pike is another delightful tale. In the first book, poor Brody is faced with accepting a new mother,...

Invisible Magic Wand to the Rescue (narrated by Eric Wickstrom) is a story of magic for the elementary school crowd. Rafael Jacimin’s engaging tale of magic wands, waffles, and an earthquake begins over the breakfast table, when Grandpa makes waffles for Caspian and his sister...

Couch Potato Crisis by Erik Rounds is the second book in the Couch Potato Chronicles. Princess Kiwi is no stranger to being kidnapped but this latest time has hit a personal note with Tasha as the culprit is none other than her nemesis Queen Murderjoy....

The Wise Old Woman advises Wynnie to get rid of the mysterious egg she finds on the castle wall – before it’s too late. But Wynnie wants to keep the egg and the baby dragon the Wise Old Woman tells her grows inside. It’s too...

“Dowsing doesn’t just mean getting wet. It can also mean finding treasure without any clues.” What if you had a pair of dowsing rods? Something that would find whatever you asked it to find? Like divining rods used by diviners to find underground water? Would...

Steve Tanner and the End of the World by Dr. A. is a children’s science fiction book about two young human boys, an earth-turned-ghost-planet, and a too-good-to-be-true alien paradise. When humans started their exodus from earth, Steve, the 13-year-old eponymous hero of this story and...

Twillaby Pond, written by Patricia L. H. Black and illustrated by Deborah Hayhurst, introduces the young reader to a whole world of fanciful creatures: striped pricklychore, quadot, merm, pret, wee-pock, myrtie, rissie, and more. The lilting rhymes take a wee-pock and a water-blue pret on...

As a child, Xenia Navarro trained herself to stay away from trouble. Even the slightest conflict with the authorities might have grave consequences for her Mexican mother, Josephina, who had lingered on US soil after her fiancée visa expired. However, their sneaky neighbor seems intent...