Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Mother Daughter Book Reviews is pleased to be coordinating a Book Blast for “Keeper”, the 4th book in the Seed Savers middle grade dystopian book series by S. Smith. Are you suffering from deja vu? No, yesterday was the blog
This is part of a tour from I Am A Reader, and updates my review of 2013. Stop by tomorrow for my review of the latest book in this exceptional series. Treasure by S. Smith It’s 2077. There’s no apocalypse,
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
Artemis Fowl is the son of Lord Fowl who has disappeared, believed dead, and his wife who is currently occupying the attic and in a mental state approaching dementia. Artemis is 12 years old, and a criminal mastermind. He has got
The BookElves Anthology Volume 2 will launch on November 12th – but pre-orders are now open for early birds wishing to catch the worm! The second BookElves Anthology, features stories by Cheryl Carpinello, Rebecca Douglass, Wendy Leighton-Porter, SW Lothian, Annaliese Matheron,
You may have noticed I’ve got a Book to Movies giveaway going on. So I thought I’d do a few more Book v Movie reviews, or at least discussions. Today is the turn of my favourite Harry Potter book –
I read a wonderful post on pricing books, thanks to the Kid Lit Blog Hop last month. Julie Stroebel Barichello’s post ‘Thoughts on pricing children’s chapter books” explored what she did with her allowance when she was a kid, and
As you know, my Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and I’ve just given away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. Now it’s the turn of the Princelings and the Pirates, but I’m only giving
Two excellent adventures for boys and girls today. The Secrets of Black Water Creek, by R J Grant, has been sitting on my kindle for quite some time, as I got it free, probably in a Kindle giveaway. I haven’t
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
Today I’m delighted to be part of Cheryl Carpinello’s Blog Tour for Sons of the Sphinx. You’ll find lots of information and an excerpt from the book, a giveaway for a $50 gift card PLUS an EXCLUSIVE interview! BOOK INFORMATION
Lionel’s Grand Adventure is a wonderful series by a talented writer, Paul Hewlett, and I’m not in the least biassed just because he’s a fellow BookElf. Neither am I biassed in my review of this, just because I received an
This Discworld novel by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett was selected as Book of the Month for May by the Goodreads Great Middle Grade Reads Book. I tried hard to finish it in the month, so you may have
Middle Grade readers rejoice! There’s a new Frankie Dupont, kid-PI mystery in the shops! If you read my review of Frankie Dupont and the Mystery of Enderby Manor, you’ll know that these are fast, fun reads for youngsters from 8
The Jurassic coast is the name given to 100 miles of coast between Swanage, Dorset, and Exmouth, Devon, in the UK. This amazing stretch of land, now a World Heritage Site, covers the whole range of Mesozoic rocks (180 million years’ worth), exposed