This is a sweetie pie of a book. A nice book, as I like to say. A book you can hand to a grandmother or a mother or an aunt or the kid themselves and simply say I think you will really like this. There’s always enough room in the world for another nice [...]

If I go more than a day without posting here, you can be pretty sure it’s because I am reading very bad galleys. I have, in fact, been reading some dreadfully bad galleys, galleys of books whose upcoming publishing I don’t understand, but I don’t want to necessarily say that here because do I need [...]

(I’m reading spring books now for my old bookstore, so a lot of the upcoming entries will be for books that aren’t coming out for a looooooooong while.)
12 year old Libby Ryan comes from beef stock – her family owns a cattle farm in Nowhere, Indiana, breeding and raising cows for the beef market. Libby’s [...]

I just finished the ARC of Annie Wedekind’s upcoming middle-grade novel, A HORSE OF HER OWN. It comes out in June from Feiwel and Friends.
What you need to know before I tell you about the book is that as a young girl I was horse-mad. We were poor and there was no money for a [...]