Lowell's life is pretty normal to begin with. He lives with his parents and six sisters and he loves stargazing. Then, his family moves to a strange and spooky village and everything changes. Lowell changes. He gets hairier and his ears grow pointier ...
Busy Spring: Nature Wakes Up by Sean Taylor and Alex Morss. Illustrated by Cinyee Chiu.
Spring is waking up and the world outside the window is busy. Jasmine and her little brother put their wellies on, step outside and get covered in soil and pollen as they explore the seasonal changes in their garden. This story is like a cross be ...
Colours Of The World Series by Moira Butterfield and Jonathan Woodward (Review)
Welcome to the natural world. This series introduces young readers to the wonders of our planet. Blue Planet covers the oceans and rivers while Green Planet explores life in the woods and forests. With short chunks of text of only two three sentences ...
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (Blog Tour)
Who is the fairest of them all? This phrase is as old as time but odds are it is a similar sort of face that springs to mind - a princess with beautiful hair. Gender-Swapped Fairy Tales takes the two gender binaries of male and female, and imagin ...
Review: My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan and Francesca Sanna
Earth wakes from her winter nap. She hears cawing crows. Sees spiders spinning their webs. Guides chimpanzees to their nest at night. Earth is the ocean and the underground tunnels. Mountains and tundra. In her games she becomes playful and wild and ...
Little Turtle and the Sea by Becky Davies and Jennie Poh
Little Turtle begins her journey on a beach. She dives into the ocean and it becomes her home. Every year her love for it grows stronger. She grows old enough to lay eggs, welcoming little turtles of her own into the ocean. One day the ocean chan ...
Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts (Blog Tour)
About the book Iggy Peck is an architect at his very core: When he’s not making houses out of food, his head is up in the clouds, dreaming of design. So he’s totally blown away when Ada Twist’s Aunt Bernice inherits an old house from ice-cream mog ...
Young Fiction Round-Up May 2020
Agents of the Wild: Operation Honeyhunt by Jennifer Bell & Alice Lickens Walker Books Since her parents died, Agnes Gamble has lived with her uncle. He doesn't like animals at all. This is a big problem for Agnes who would love a f ...