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Shadows from the Past is the amazingly wonderful time-travelling series for middle grade readers from Wendy Leighton-Porter. And much loved by adults like me! Especially if you like cats, or reluctant heros, or any combination of these things. I caught
The Shadow of the Witchfinder – book 15 in Wendy Leighton-Porter’s marvellous Shadows from the Past series. 15, you ask? Well, since the last one I reviewed Wendy has inserted Max’s novellas into the sequence. That means I have not
August is a good month to catch up on books. These were the shorter ones that I read earlier in the year but didn’t give formal reviews on the blog. Now it’s the end of August, and I really should
The Shadow of Atlantis is the first in the fabulous children’s historical time travel adventure series The Shadows of the Past. Wendy Leighton-Porter is on virtual tour with Pump Up Your Book, and I’m very pleased to be hosting her
The Shadow of the Norman Arrow is book 7 in Wendy Leighton-Porter’s award-winning Shadows from the Past series. I think Wendy may have added number ten to the series since I last caught up with them – I know I
I was hoping to do the Deja Vu Blogfest today. This has been an annual flashback event, and I liked it so much I went for the monthly one when that was invented. The brainchild of D L Hammons, it
Mother Daughter Book Reviews is pleased to be coordinating a Book Blast for the second volume of the “BookElves Anthology” featuring some of your favourite middle grade authors. Now available – just in time for the holiday season! And since
The only things these books have in common is their target audience and their enjoyability! The Shadow of Camelot is the sixth in Wendy Leighton-Porter’s Shadows from the Past series, and is a historical time-travelling kidlit story. It’s a Kid
Seven stories, seven situations threatening the festivities. Will the holidays be a disaster? Will families be left out in the cold? Will there be tears before bedtime, or will there be happy endings all round? The MG BookElves group brings
This Book Blast is brought to you courtesy of Adventure Quest Books. Answer the hero’s call to adventure and enjoy more tales, legends and myths from the ancient and medieval worlds for MG and YA readers. About the Books The
If you haven’t started reading the Shadows from the Past series, I really think you’re missing out. It starts with the Shadow of Atlantis, and we meet Jemima and Joe, twins who have come to live with their Uncle Richard,
This is the third in the Shadows from the Past series, and I think it’s the best to date. Jemima and Joe have lost their parents because they got stuck on the wrong side of a time travel gateway without
I am overjoyed to be interviewing one of the outstanding time travellers of our generation today – Max, the Tonkinese cat, who stars in the Shadows from the Past series by Wendy Leighton-Porter. To start, find out about the first
The Shadow of the Minotaur is the second in Wendy Leighton-Porter’s Shadows from the Past series. These books really appeal to me since they deal with a bit of history I did at school – my history knowledge doesn’t go
This is the first in the Shadows from the Past series of books, in which Jemima (good name!) and Joe, friend Charlie and cat Max travel back in time to various exciting events in the past, by means of a