IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES BY KATHERINE RUNDELL, Bloomsbury, 2023 This is the first of my Christmas book gifts courtesy of my dearest darling daughter (DDD). It’s a fantasy book that has garnered a lot of attention, with copies of first prints already being offered at silly prices. An inventive tale and quite engaging, it has elements of …
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THE YGGDRASIL CHRONICLES BY RICHARD WALKER
After unveiling my first book, ‘Punto and Me’ last week, I’m sure you all spent the week on the edges of your seats, wondering if my second book would appear this week. The answer is a resounding YES! Here it is, ‘The Yggdrasil Chronicles’, a fantasy story based on Norse mythology. In this novel you …
‘MURICA THE MIGHTY
A few weeks back you may remember His Highness Ronald Rump, Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), PREZ for life and World’s Greatest Comedian, called together every General in the ‘Murican military. Then he had his Secretary of Wobbly, Peep Hogswath, famous for his killer attacks as a Foxxy News announcer, tell the generals that they …
DAHL’S THE TWITS – THE MOVIE
THE TWITS - Netflix, 2025 - The Twits was the first Roald Dahl book I ever encountered. I was a beginning elementary teacher at the time and found it at a bookstore when it was first published. I loved it and found that my grade five students were enchanted by Dahl’s wacky twisted humor. One …
THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF BY CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman, Tor Publishing 2021 - Introducing Kinch Na Shannack, a lowly member of the Takers Guild, born in that part of Buehlman’s fictional world where the inhabitants are distinguished by, and looked down on for, their black tongues. The Takers Guild is a collective of criminals that apprentice and supply …
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