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Review: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mr. Popper is a humble house painter living in Stillwater who dreams of faraway places like the South Pole. When an explorer responds to his letter by sending him a penguin named Captain…
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Review: Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
It was a lovely idea and Miri wished she could believe it, but she knew the lowlanders would never allow a crown to sit on a mountain girl’s head. High on the slopes…
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Romances in Books
Let’s face it, it’s pretty much omnipresent in literature; pick any given book, and the two main characters, or one main character and a side character, will strike up a bit of a…
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Review: The Kneebone Boy, by Ellen Potter
“Some say he’s part animal, covered with hair, with claws for hands and ears like a bats. When his mother first laid eyes on him she fainted dead away…” Life in a small…
