![Pet: A Unique and Important Reading Experience [YA Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pet.jpg?fit=1000%2C1519&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been […]
![My First Robin Hood Retelling [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/outlaws-of-sherwood-forest.jpg?fit=261%2C437&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Robin is an apprentice forester in the woods of Nottingham. The arrows he makes and sells earn barely enough extra coin to retain the title to his father’s small lands. The sheriff of Nottingham’s jealousy toward Robin’s father is just as fierce towards his son, and the sheriff’s men take every opportunity to harass the young woodsman. But when Robin defends himself by accidentally killing one of the sheriff’s men, […]
![The Binding: Not as Magical As I’d Hoped [Wyrd & Wonder Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-binding.jpg?fit=428%2C648&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental […]
![J.R.R. Tolkien ed. by Peter Hunt [Talkin’ About Tolkien]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/talkin-about-tolkien.png?fit=800%2C536&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
This lively collection of original essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the light of children’s literature theory and approaches, as well as from adult and fantasy literature perspectives. Exploring issues such as gender, language, worldbuilding, and ecocriticism, the volume also places Tolkien’s works in the context of a range of visual media, including Peter Jackson’s film adaptations. Goodreads Review ✍🏻 The cover and title of […]
![Indian No More [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/indian-no-more.jpg?fit=1000%2C1500&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis with Traci SorrellFormat/Source: Hardcover/ LibraryPublished: Sept. 2019Publisher: Tu Books (Lee & Low)Length: 211 pages Genre: Historical fictionTarget Age: 8+#OwnVoices: Yes (discussed below) Review ✍🏻 About the Book Indian No More is an #ownvoices title, based on the experiences of Charlene Willing McManis’ family. McManis was a baby when her Umpqua tribe was terminated in 1950s and her family moved to Los Angeles. When McManis learned she had terminal cancer, she […]