Be careful what you wish for. How many times have we been told that over the years? It’s a valuable lesson for all of us to learn, young and old. Young Robbie is about to learn this lesson, not from his parents, but from a...

Brazil always asks his girlfriend Delores for money in the storybook The Mongoose and the Princess by Cindy Christmas. He wants money to buy food, clothes, and jewelry. She is fed up with his begging and decides to go to the witch Nivea to cast...

An orphaned young mouse, Rue, is saved by a friendly skunk and brought to the delightful little village of Wattle’s Way in Master Blacke by Pete Prown. It doesn’t take long, though, for Rue and her new friend, Doily, to realize that something is not...

Hades Learns To Be Fair is the fourth book in the world of Greek mythology – Taki & Toula: Time Travelers series – written by Elena Paige and illustrated by Josef Hill. When Taki and his sister are ready to go on a new...

Emma and the Silverbell Faeries by Matthew S. Cox is the third book in the Tales of Widowswood series. Ten-year-old Emma lives with her parents, brother Tam, and her Nan in a small two-bedroom house. Her mother, Nan, and Emma are druids and they possess...

Song of the Moon by Helen Laycock is a fantastical adventure that revolves around Isadora Wellington who wants to earn her Brownie Merit Badge by helping elderly people. Izzy decides to help Titania Moonsong, an old woman who is wheelchair bound. Mrs. Moonsong lives down...

In The Third Kind of Magic (Crow Magic, Book 1) by Elizabeth Forest, 12-year-old Suli Wing wants to apprentice as a wise woman. When she accidentally used magic on a girl who bullied her brother, her grandmother sent her to another village to train with...

"Take Cover!" with Miss Poly Loly is a children’s adventure tale written by Karen Avril and illustrated by Michelle Dybing. Mason wakes to a house full of mayhem. His baby brother, Gabriel, is being fed breakfast by his mother. Mason’s sister, Ellie, is complaining that...

Emma and the Banderwigh: Tales of Widowswood Book 1 by Matthew S. Cox is a fantastical children's story that revolves around ten-year-old Emma who lives with her parents, her brother Tam, and her Nan in a small two-bedroom house. Her mother helps in the village...

Boudin's First Christmas (Boudin's Grand Adventures) by Leah Morris is a very quick read that will delight the hearts of young readers, especially those who love animals. I read it with my seven-year-old son in one sitting, studying the illustrations and enjoying the cute verses,...