My Mistake

April 23, 2025

I waited all day for Kate DiCamillo’s second book in her series, Orris and Timble: Lost and Found. It was only at the end of the day that I checked, and saw release day is next Tuesday, not yesterday. Darn. So, instead of a fresh review, you have my reviiew of...

Olivetti by Allie Millington

April 22, 2025

Allie Millington’s Olivetti may have been written for young people, but it’s really for readers who want to be drawn into a beautiful story of a family that falls apart, and the typewriter that tries to save them. If the premise sounds odd, it works....

The Red-Letter Day by SP McArdle

November 28, 2016

There’s a story behind this story. The Red-Letter Day is a juvenile book for ages 8-12 by SP McArdle who is related to my brother-in-law, Kevin. When we were in Dublin, Kevin’s cousin, John Henry, mentioned their cousin had written a children’s book...

Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein

January 17, 2016

Chris Grabenstein’s latest middle school book is for all of us who love libraries, kids in libraries, and everything libraries stand for. I can’t discuss Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics as passionately as I would like to without spoiling a...

The Spider Ring by Andrew Harwell

December 16, 2015

It may have taken me a while to get around to Andrew Harwell’s juvenile fantasy, The Spider Ring, but I’m glad I kept it in the TBR pile. It’s an excellent novel about a young girl who felt like an outcast, abandoned by friends, who discovered...