Book Review: Mouse Guard: Baldwin the Brave and Other Tales
This collection of fables features amazing, etching-style artwork, lessons for life and medieval mice!
This collection of fables features amazing, etching-style artwork, lessons for life and medieval mice!
This sweet, heartwarming story is all about looking beyond appearances and celebrating difference and uniqueness!
Sam & Iris discover an abandoned town with a ghostly presence – but can they solve it’s mystery before history repeats? Totally engrossing!
Follow First Cat as he bands together with a queen and a robot to defeat the Rat King. Totally fun and original.
I loved reading about Annie Shearer and her clever adopted stray, Runt. Halfway between “Babe” and “Matilda”
With magic and ghosts and even some fairies, this spooky story of friendship and acceptance is the perfect page-turner!
Between the pages of these books is a welcoming place for all of us who feel like we don’t have a place in the world.
Imagine your name is Twelve. You have given up your family, your home, and your name to become one of the elite Hunters.
Liska lives in Arborven, an ancient forest city. She is a shapeshifter, born to protect the tree that gives everyone their special powers.
Faelan is vegetarian, plays the harp and is friends with a skunk! The rest of the pack thinks he’s weird and would rather eat the skunk.
Corpse is a ghost (sort of) living in the roof of a ramshackle hut above the evil three witches who have bewitched the town of Elston-Fright.
This is an old folktale made new. It has the usual dark elements of a good fairytale, with Klassen’s wry wit and sense of impending doom.
This story is even more exciting than the first, with twists and backflips and a new threat from outside the school.
An absolutely magical book! A fantastic adventure where the illustrations have the magic jumping right off the page!
An enchanting, cosy, and beautifully illustrated adventure.
A sweet and charming adventure that follows brave and determined Livy and her hilarious ‘not chicken’ friend, Bob.
This beautifully written collection of short stories contains deeper meanings and rooted metaphors, creating the perfect page-turner.
Do you feel a bit different? Do you struggle in school or have trouble focusing on reading? Well, you might be a demi-god.
Join Ember and friends in this magical world as he tries to find his place away from everything he’s ever known.
Kip, Dad, and the Odds get trapped and only Kip can get them out! A hilarious and heart-warming story about taking control of your worries.
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