by Retired Reviewer | Aug 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Like most of us, Flemming Flinders spends a bit of each day dreaming about the fantastic things he reads about in his favorite books. Will he ever have an adventure like the characters do in fairy tales? One day Flemming decides to lock up the grocery store that he...
by Retired Reviewer | Aug 20, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
In the summer of 1995, a family of five from Albany, Oregon set out on the adventure of a lifetime. They had volunteered to manage the Mennonite Guest House in Nairobi East Africa for three months. Together they left the comforts of home behind and traded it all in...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 9, 2014 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
Not since the Choose Your Own Adventure series has reading been so interactive and fun. You Are The Friction, one of the year’s best reads, is an anthology of collaborative short fiction and illustration. To create each unique piece of work, twelve writers were asked...
by Site Owner | Jun 26, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Why Is Dad Sad? By Rob Scotton HarperCollins Children’s, $16.99, 32 pages On Sunday morning Splat feels great. He eats his favorite cereal and reads Super Cat comics. When Dad joins him, Splat can’t help but notice his frown. Why is Dad so sad? Splat learns that...
by Site Owner | Jun 23, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
A Beary Good Book By Geoffrey Hayes Toon Books, $12.95, 32 pages Some of my most cherished memories include all the time I spent reading with my grandparents as a child. It was during one of those special reading sessions that I discovered the work of Geoffrey Hayes,...
