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In The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catheryne Valente seamlessly and brilliantly blends elements of fantasy, mythology, and historical fiction to create a magical world so cunningly described that it’s utterly believable. S. J. Tucker distinctly voices all the characters in this starred audiobook version of the novel.
On a mission to discover astronomy apps, we uncovered a whole universe of terrific productions.
Sherri Duskey Rinker’s story, Goodnight , Goodnight, Construction Site, about the machinery at a construction site winding down for the night, makes the most of every crunch, roar, and snore in the author’s rhyming text in DVD and audio formats. Check out the starred review.
Let’s kick off our Tuesday with a preview of Dance Class vol. 4: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Paris. You don’t have to have read the earlier volumes to get the idea: It’s a lively slice-of-life story about three friends who are in dance class together. In this volume, they are training [...]
Narrator JD Jackson brings to life Gigi Amateau’s historical novel, Come August, Come Freedom, set in Colonial Virginia prior to the Civil War. Don’t miss this starred audiobook version.
In Darkness by Nick Lake. Bloomsbury. 2012. Review copy from publisher. The Plot: A young man is trapped in darkness: one minute he is in his hospital bed, the next the building is rubble around him and he is alive but there is no way out. He will tell you a story, his story, of how he [...]
Anyone who’s read many of Renée French’s highly-detailed black-and-white comics, like her surreal, dark and disturbing meditation on migraines and ants h day, or perhaps her off-kilter family melodrama about deformity and surgery The Ticking, may be a little surprised to hear her name in the same sentence as the words “kids comic.” But then, [...]
Wapos Bay, a stop-animation DVD series from National Film Board of Canada, provides a realistic view of modern Cree life with touches of humor and a strong cultural undertone. Be sure to check out the starred review.
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