The Short Straw by Irene Mathias is a fun children’s illustrated story about a boy who, upon picking the shortest straw, is forced to go inside the local Haunted House, make it up to the right bedroom window and wave his flashlight to all who...

It is Read Across America Day and Principal Sam wants to go and listen to the librarian reading fairy tales to the students in the children's storybook Principal Sam and the Three Bears by Paul Semendinger, Ed.D. Principal Sam is standing outside the library and...

Alex and the Druids’ Eclipse: A Cornish Tale by Carolyn Griffin is a fascinating story set against the backdrop of Cornish Celtic roots where readers are introduced to ten-year-old Alex Pitts who lives in the village of Penmellyn. Alex is excited because he is going...

Scientific Fairytales for Children: Book One: Little ZerO and Bully 9 is an educational fable for children written by Silvija D. Lechowick. The Community of Numbers lived deep down in a hole in a grassy meadow. The pit they inhabited had little access to the...

There is even more danger outside of the Elfin settlement of Westleton than Pil Persins and his friends ever imagined in After the Dark by Spencer Labbe. In this first volume of The Castaway King Chronicles, Pil and his friends, Felicity Falon and Dunken Dirk,...

Whales and Magic: Sinbad the Sailor’s First Voyage, the other Odyssey Book 1 is a mythological adventure tale for children written by Ruth Finnegan and illustrated by Kevin Nara. A poor porter was sitting outside a wealthy merchant’s house one day, and he wondered aloud...

It was Halloween on the night Maddison was born ten years ago in the storybook Maddison: A Ten-Year-Old Witch with Magical Powers by Michael Montero. Maddison’s hair was shiny like a raven’s wings and her black eyes had the sparkle of diamonds. Maddison dreamed of...

It's not often that I find a children's book with so much appeal. The Little Unicorn is a refreshing, delightful tale of a unicorn who wanders off to an unknown area of the forest and isn't sure if she will ever find her way back...

From Frights to Flaws: Alyssa McCarthy’s Magical Missions: Book 1 is a fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Sunayna Prasad. Life had gotten very dreary for Alyssa and her cousin, Hailey. When Alyssa’s parents died in a car crash five years earlier, a...

In this final book of the Orkney trilogy, The Raven God by Alane Adams, Loki accidentally kill Odin’s son, Baldur. Odin imprisons Loki and his family. Life in Orkney returns to peace and tranquility after the Volgrim witches have been conquered. However, the calm is...