Harry is a remarkable child. His hiccups are magical in the sense that they come to life. Harry's hiccups change into magnificent creatures, but his family has had enough. The miraculous hiccups might strike at any time of the day. Sometimes the creatures keep the...

Uni the Unicorn. written by K. A. Mulenga and illustrated by Boutique Books, is a bright and engaging children’s fable with a positive message for young and adult readers alike. Mulenga has crafted a whimsical world in which Uni the Unicorn learns kindness by example...

Attack of the Rom-Com: A Magically Funny Horror(ish) Novel by Martti Nelson is a hilariously entertaining read! The protagonist, Sophie, is a poor lost soul. She desperately needs to see the bigger picture in life. She is lost because of her past experiences while growing...

Eye to the Sky: Storytelling on the Edge of Magic by Bobby Norfolk is literally, as the title suggests, the story of Bobby’s life told in his own words. Eye to the Sky is written in a fairly sequential manner and follows Bobby as he...

He thought being a war hero would be the career for him, but an injury showed him how little regard others actually had for him, so Cayden wandered around being a bodyguard or doing other odd jobs. The urge to go home to his family...

Learning her heritage is different than what she believed, a newly-orphaned girl struggles with unprecedented magical aspects of her life in the children's fantasy novel, Dotty and the Withered Hand by Emma Warner-Reed. After her parents' untimely deaths, Dotty moves in with her eccentric Great-Uncle...

An ancient relic stolen from a temple embodies a goddess-created beast; when a thief unseals it, lives are in jeopardy in the fantasy novel Shadow of the Jade Cat: A Tale From the City of Magic by Susan Ann Walker. A short time before the...

Secrets of the Memory Tree: A Magical Story about Friendship, the Ancient Ones, and a Grand Old Tree by Angie Bird begins with an introduction that is almost a dedication to the trees. It provides the basis for the entire story, laying a foundation that...

Mika's Quest for the Lost Artifact: A Magical Hunt Through the Streets of San Francisco by Cat Fan is about an imaginative and perceptive girl called Mika. With her unicorn companion Polo, Mika travels through a magical world. She embarks on a quest that demonstrates...

Earnest, a boy who has respiratory problems, is weighed down by life and wonders if there is more to living and the universe. He finds solace in his imaginary friends and supportive parents. After experiencing gruesome torture at the hands of his school teacher, Earnest...

In Adele and the Whispering Garden, Polly Richards invites children to discover a love of gardening and magic. Adele is a curious girl with a big heart. Upon moving into her new home, she decides to explore. In her backyard, she finds the entrance to...

Reflections In My Magical Mirror: Lessons of Love from the School of Life by Ivan Figueroa-Otero is the latest installment in the author's non-fiction Spirituality series, expanding on some content from previous works and building on them as he presents new bounty in an established...

Many tubes of paint, all different colors, are used daily by a little boy who loves to create beautiful pictures. But, in Olesia Klochkova’s Colors: Where Did the Paints Go?, the paints are tired of being left unattended in a mess. One night, they escape...

A Prince of the Djinn: Beyond Midlife Magic by Allie McCormack tells the tale of Amanda, aka Mandy Dupont, a grounded and down-to-earth woman whose world is turned upside down when she acquires a mysterious pendant that houses the ancient and enigmatic Djinn prince, Kieran....

Song of the Cardinal by Cynthia Waine Brandt is one of the best memoirs I have read in many years, handling loss and grief with a unique beauty of prose and ingenuity of thought. The author narrates her journey through grief after the sudden loss...

In "A Mage Is Born," we meet Garig the lead character. Garig was orphaned when he was a mere two weeks old. His mother handed him to her sister in order to protect him from the evil Mage that attacked the castle. His Uncle Charles...

Are you brave? Can you do anything you set your heart to do? Even when you’re awake and the others are teasing and bullying you? Nino is a platypus and he wants to believe he’s the bravest in Animalandia. Well, he is in his dreams....

Andy and his Magic Phone Visit the World Next Door is a time-travel adventure fantasy for children and preteens written by Kim Ebner. Ordinarily, Andy dreaded his birthdays; he hated all the attention and knew the presents his parents would be able to afford to...

Ruby the Rainbow Witch wore a rainbow dress and a picture-perfect rainbow hat and she lived in a charming world of sweet candy. The place was picture-perfect with a lazy lemonade river and puffy purple and big blue cotton candy clouds. It so happened one...

Two youngsters do not know where their socks go. Sometimes when they fold their socks there is only one and they do not know where the other has gone. They wonder if it vanishes into thin air. The socks don't always come back when the...