Pantomime by Laura Lam Series: Micah Grey #1 Format/Source: Paperback/library Published: 2016 Publisher: Pan Macmillan (Angry Robot originally published this book in 2013.) Length: 386 pages Genre: Fantasy/speculative fiction ★★★★ Pantomime, the first book in a trilogy, follows Micah Grey as they learn what it […]
This past week was Reading Week, ‘spring break’ for us university students. Luckily, my courses are structured so that I didn’t have a ton of work to do over the break. This provided the perfect opportunity for my sister to […]
I wrote today’s post as an assignment for a course on teaching children’s literature. *** The plight of refugees is one of the most notable crises of this decade. Devastating stories fill the news and reach the ears of children. […]
The first month of 2018 is behind us! I did a lot of excellent reading in January, thanks in part to having to read the Cybils middle grade speculative fiction shortlist 😛 I returned to university on January 3 after […]
War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft Having participated in the First World War, and having seen two of his sons serve in the Second, Tolkien was concerned with many of the same themes that interested other […]