But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that…they’re turning good! The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey: With a super cool, graphic novel style, The Bad Guys series is a great read for those starting out with chapter books and reluctant readers (but the voracious young readers I know love them too!) They sound like bad guys, they look like bad guys … they even smell like bad guys. At least she’ll be around cute animals! But when the cold, elusive millionaire, Marge Sullivan, brings her puppy Rufus in for a check-up, Amy encounters an unexpected mystery. In the first book, Amy and the Missing Puppy, Amy resigns herself to helping out at her mom’s vet clinic when all of her friends head out of town for spring break. The Critter Club series by Callie Barkley: This illustrated book series makes a wonderful first introduction to chapter books. In the first book of the series, A New Friend, Sophie Mouse must convince her classmates-and herself-that a new student is nothing to fear…even if he is a snake! The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series by Poppy Green: A sweet series about a little mouse and her forest friends. Each book in this fun graphic novel series features three stories and interesting sea-worthy facts, they make a great first step towards chapter books. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. 21 Best Chapter Book Series for Young Readers Narwhal and Jelly series by Ben Clanton: Narwhal is a happy-go-lucky narwhal.
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"But my father did." (Sit very still - that's the echo of an ancient rim shot.) Curious about a possible connection, the emperor asked him, "Did your mother ever work at the palace?" "No," the man said. It went something like this: Augustus once spotted a man from out of town who looked an awful lot like himself. "The tolerance of the Emperor Augustus in the face of quips and banter of all sorts," Mary Beard tells us, "was still being celebrated four centuries after his death."Ī favorite joke concerned the emperor's paternity. The Imperial Roman people had a healthy sense of humor, and the big guy seems to have known how to take a joke. By Mary Beard (Liveright 310 pages $28.95)ĭid you hear the one about the emperor? If you lived in Augustus' Rome, chances are you heard several of them. cummings-inspired birthday poem I wrote a while back. Meanwhile: Thank you, Mary Lee!! My ArtSpeak: RED poetry offering today continues the birthday (and dog) theme. I hope you'll give it a read!Īnd if you'd like to review it on your blog, the publisher is offering digital galleys! You can email me irene (at) irenelatham (dot) com or leave a comment below. about tinkering and heroes and made-up words and surprises and acceptance and love and friendship and finding one's way. Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of. and then it morphed into the girl-robodog-war story you see depicted on the cover. I hope you like it!Ĭover art is by illustrator Jamie Green (learn a little about Jamie in Mary Lee's post as well!), the publisher is Charlesbridge, and it's a book I started out calling my boy-dog-war story. I'm super-honored Mary Lee is hosting the cover reveal for D-39: A Robodog's Journey, my dystopian verse novel coming May 18, 2021. Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit the birthday girl Mary Lee at A Year of Reading. Halfway through the story (read as journal entries), Dan and a group of like-minded cohorts quit their jobs, pack their bags, and set out to start up their own company in Silicon Valley. Dan, not yet 30, but already facing burnout, realizes he has no life and begins keeping a journal in an attempt to sort through his personal and professional plight. In the beginning, he appropriately uses the sarcastic voice for which he is so well known, but as the story reveals the darker side of protagonist Dan's frantic world, Perry drops the attitude and uses a much more understanding tone. Matthew Perry, of television's Friends, does a remarkable job of bringing this abridged audiobook version humorously and heartbreakingly to life. Microserfs is about a group of young Microsoft employees who seem to spend all their waking hours working, holed away in their offices staring at computer screens. Every queen has a magical talent inherit in the bloodline, Cressa’s is her ability to play with people’s memories, while Cerulia’s is not quite determined at the start of the story. Jump to the main storyline and in the land of Weirandale where the current queen, Cressa and her daughter, the Princess Cerulia. Cover Art by Larry RostantĮxiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, must master the magic that is her birthright, become a ruthless guerilla fighter, and transform into the queen she is destined to be.īut to do it she must win the favor of the spirits who play in mortal affairs, assemble an unlikely group of rebels, and wrest the throne from a corrupt aristocracy whose rot has spread throughout her kingdom.Ī tone-setting prologue tells of a vacant throne and the royal catamounts, who are spiritually bonded to the ruler and are unsettled because the throne has had no occupant for over a decade. Kozloff’s saga is of a kingdom (or Queendom) in chaos, an empty throne, a scheming advisor, mysterious magic, and pirates. When a publisher releases an author’s debut and then over the next subsequent months the next books in the series, then that publisher (Tor, in this case) has faith in the writer (Sarah Kozloff, in this case), creating immediate “shelf presence.” The Queen in Hiding is Sarah Kozloff’s debut novel and the first book in her Nine Realms quartet. Overflowing with tried-and-true romance tropes like opposites attract and secret pining, Wilde Child proves that sometimes theres no need to reinvent the wheel.'- BookPage 'As usual, Eloisa James manages to weave a sweet, funny, and poignant tale. He strikes a bargain: after one performance, the lady must return to her father's castle and marry one of three gentlemen whom he deems acceptable. James writing shines and the Wilde clans infectious energy is the epitome of delightful. Staring into her defiant eyes, he makes the grim vow that he'll keep her safe. Not that Joan would want such a dubious honor, of course.įor years, Thaddeus has avoided the one Wilde who shakes his composure, but he's horrified when he grasps the danger Joan's putting herself in. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. She has the perfect model for an aristocratic male in mind: Thaddeus Erskine Shaw, Viscount Greywick, a man who scorned the very idea of marrying her. Read reviews and buy Wilde Child - (Wildes of Lindow Castle) by Eloisa James (Hardcover) at Target. He wants a prim and proper duchess, not the Wildest of the Wildes!Īlready notorious for the golden hair that proves her mother's infidelity, Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest escapade may finally ruin her: she's determined to perform the title role of a prince-in breeches, naturally. Eloisa James returns to the Wildes of Lindow Castle series with the next Wilde child who runs and joins a theatre troupe - and the duke who tries to save her reputation. Her orchid collection has outgrown her office and spilled over into the rest of her house (much to her children’s dismay), but that hasn’t stopped her from adding to her collection or from resuscitating any unhappy ones she finds. Her passion for yarn has resulted in an overflowing stash and more projects than she’ll probably finish in a lifetime, but that has yet to stop her from buying more. The rich history and culture of France, the flavors and scents of India, and the sunrise over Machu Picchu in particular have left indelible impressions and show up regularly in her writing. She has explored 45 states and 13 countries. Ariel Tachna is a polyglot linguaphile with a passion for travel, yarn, orchids, and romance. There is a point to this slice-of-life approach, but for readers drawn by the promise of magic and fate, that point may feel like a long time coming. Minoo, Vanessa, Linnéa, Anna-Karin, Rebecka, and Ida have 10th grade in common, but little else. After that, it’s somewhat difficult to commit to the many other characters, mostly female classmates of Elias, whose anomie and everyday bleakness occupy the next hundred pages. Instead, a voice in his head drives him to graphically depicted suicide. The opening sequence draws readers into sympathy with a troubled boy named Elias, who’s desperate to connect with his best friend, Linnéa. First published in 2011, this first book in the Engelsfors trilogy follows a group of Swedish teenagers as they awaken to the supernatural horrors around them. The English writer and journalist Robert McCrum has argued that, like Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Defoe’s novel “follows an almost biblical pattern of transgression (youthful rebellion), retribution (successive shipwrecks), repentance (the painful lessons of isolation) and finally redemption (Crusoe’s return home). While it has also inspired stage plays, operas and many films, it is its literary legacy that is the subject of this discussion. Its enormous popularity is not in doubt, and probably continues to some extent, but what might not be so widely realised is just how extensive and enduring its literary legacy has been. It is often regarded as the first novel in English, although this has been disputed, and is generally accepted as initiating the genre of realistic fiction. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is 300 years old on April 25th. And he particularly didn’t like this one, because it meant he was in the same room as Lord Winder, a man whom, deep down, he believed to be A Bad Sort. This is politics now.” Lord Albert Selachii didn’t much like parties. Dig out a lieutenant who has been a bit slack lately and send him up to tell their lordships.” “ Isn’t that a bit cruel, sir?” “Of course it is. Political goes higher up.” “ You’re right, sir.” “Good. “Captain, you know what this is now?” “ I’m sure you’ll tell me, sir.” “I will, Tom, I will. “ Well, what did Sergeant Franklin do when he was-” “She didn’t say, sir.” A sudden feeling of relief stole over the major. We don’t want another Dolly Sisters, do we, sir?” The major stared at the map. But we’ve kind of advised them not to shoot unarmed old ladies, sir. Didn’t turn it up she’d tell everyone what he did when he was eleven, sir.” “The man are armed, aren’t they?” “Oh, yes. |