Clarisse, a German Shepherd, is excited about Christmas. When the Droolmeister, her Great Dane godfather, gives her a magical dog toy, dressed like a toy soldier, (“a Muttcracker,” her godfather explains), she is transported into a fantasy world of doggie wonders. There’s a battle between...

The Rise of Septra'Kaal (Masterminds Incorporated) by Chad Lee Erway is another super helping of children's mystery and horror. This one has sixth-grader Jonah Mortimer hearing things--a bird talking to him--but it turns out to be a reality, not his imagination. The bird warns him...

The Power of the Emerald Ring: A Dragonstone Story is a work of fiction in the fantasy genre and the second book in the Dragonstone series. It is aimed at children and young people new to reading and was penned by author Mark M. Even....

The Wicked Wizard and the Worms by Judith M. Ackerman is the story of a wicked wizard. His life consists of traveling throughout his world and casting evil spells on anything he sees that is beautiful. Because he himself is ugly he turns whatever he...

Colin saw a mouse in the cupboard and when he told his mommy, she asked him to catch it. Colin did not know how he should catch it and his mommy told him to catch it with the help of a cat. He then told...

What is your all-time favorite fairy tale? I think mine is Beauty and the Beast. What if the Beauty in the story really is the beast? Twist the original tale around and re-tell it and you can create another version of what it means to...

“Dowsing doesn’t just mean getting wet. It can also mean finding treasure without any clues.” What if you had a pair of dowsing rods? Something that would find whatever you asked it to find? Like divining rods used by diviners to find underground water? Would...

Twillaby Pond, written by Patricia L. H. Black and illustrated by Deborah Hayhurst, introduces the young reader to a whole world of fanciful creatures: striped pricklychore, quadot, merm, pret, wee-pock, myrtie, rissie, and more. The lilting rhymes take a wee-pock and a water-blue pret on...

Let's meet the Germie Germlins, the tiny nasty monsters who lived on a planet far away called Virion in the storybook The Amazing Zoe Defeats The Germie Germlins by Valene Campbell. They were at their happiest when they were able to touch anyone or any...

The Unfocused Man: The Comet Kid Chronicles #2 is a fantasy/science fiction novel written by Tom Hoffman. After their adventures on the planet Ardenia, eleven-year-old Max and his big sister, Grace, were having some problems adjusting to life in their home surrounded by cornfields. Even...