I’d heard of this in a few places, so I was glad to get the chance to actually read it. This children’s book is very cute with a bit of a twist at the end. We start off with a princess getting to marry a prince. They both have very fancy clothes and are very proper. Then, a dragon comes and burns the princess’s castle down and takes the prince with him. All of the princess’s belongings burned, and the only thing she can find […]
Thanks, CBR10 Bingo, for getting me to read a book I normally wouldn’t!
So the book I was going to read for this square is a bit longer than I was expecting, and perhaps more dense, so I “cheated” from my original plan and looked for a children’s book that would work! As we’re in October, I looked for a Halloween book, because why not? So I came across Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler, purely because the author happens to live in my state. So let’s see how it is! I quite like the artwork. The witches […]
I was so very often confused, but that’s okay!
There are a lot of threads in this book moving to create a tapestry of a story. This is definitely a fantasy, as their world is much different than ours. There is a great Bog that takes over a good part of the land. The Bog is dangerous, but there is a town in the middle, the Protectorate. The Protectorate is ruled by the Elders. Every year on the Day of Sacrifice, the youngest baby in the town is sacrificed to the witch, to keep […]
James and the giant meh
James used to be a happy boy who loved to play until one day he has to go live with his two Aunts who hate him and make him work way too hard. He never gets to play anymore! One day a mysterious man hands him a bag of magic seeds and tells him that they can make all his wishes come true. James runs home to try it, but oh no! He trips and spills the seeds on the ground. Behold next day there […]