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 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....

Too Cute to Spook, written by Diana Aleksandrova and illustrated by Alicia Young, is the fourth book in their Special Monsters Collection, with the other three being Mon-staa, Thud! Thud! and an Activity Book: Monsters – Packed, Fun Activities. In Too Cute to Spook, Larry,...

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...

Everyone gets angry. In Tame the Beast, D.K. Brantley has written a rhyming story about how you can handle that beast. Several colorful beasts – including a werewolf, vampire, mummy, and swamp thing - demonstrate what it looks like to feel angry and they are...

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...

In The Adventures Of Sugamama, we are introduced to a little girl named Sugamama who loved to cook with her mother. One night she ate too many cookies and passed out with her baking apron still on. When she woke up, her room was strangely...

The article in the financial section of the Star Phoenix newspaper about growing magical bean crops caught the attention of the Wizard of Hawarden and he went to the farmer's market to buy the magic bean seeds. The Wizard planted the seeds in his garden,...