I fell in love with and wrote about this book a long time ago. But it now occurs to me that not only is this a new edition, but that the only person who read my previous writing was my Media for Children and Young Adults professor. Maybe ya’ll might like to hear about it, too ( Read more... )

This review should properly be on amnachaidh’s journal, since he was the one who actually bought the whole trilogy and has been lending to everyone. But he doesn’t normally do book reviews, so here I am. Not even the second to read our copy, but Tintenherz is mostly to blame for that.

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik Picture, if you will, the naval ( Read more... )

I realized with less than a week to go that I had not even picked out the adult nonfiction book I’d said I’d review for the June Librarian’s Choice page. Oops. The adult summer reading theme (which we’re not really doing) is animals, so I thought I’d look for one of the nice narrative animal books which seem only to circulate as long as they’re ( Read more... )