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Review: Mister Monday, Garth Nix

This post is part of the Discover Australian Fantasy feature, running all July on The Oaken Bookcase. Please visit the Aussie Fantasy page to see the other reviews and articles and also to enter the giveaway!  Title: Mister Monday (Goodreads) Author:  Garth Nix (@garthnix) Rating: Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an […]
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Posted on July 27, 2012
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Review: Little Fur, Isobelle Carmody

This post is part of the Discover Australian Fantasy feature, running all July on The Oaken Bookcase. Please visit the Aussie Fantasy page to see the other reviews and articles and also to enter the giveaway – you could win a copy of Obernewtyn, also by Isobelle Carmody!  Title: Little Fur: The Legend Begins (Goodreads) Author:  Isobelle Carmody (@firecatz) Rating: Who […]
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Posted on July 26, 2012
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Review: Foundling, D. M. Cornish

This post is part of the Discover Australian Fantasy feature, running all July on The Oaken Bookcase. Please visit the Aussie Fantasy page to see the other reviews and articles and also to enter the giveaway! Title: Foundling (Goodreads) Author:  D.M. Cornish Rating: Set in the world of the Half-Continent—a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols—the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is […]
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Posted on July 23, 2012
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Review: Return of the Ancients, Greig Beck

This post is part of the Discover Australian Fantasy feature, running all July on The Oaken Bookcase. Please visit the Aussie Fantasy page to see the other reviews and articles and also to enter the giveaway – you could win a copy of Return of the Ancients! Title: Return of the Ancients (Goodreads) Author:  Greig Beck (@GreigBeck) Rating: Return of the Ancients […]
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Posted on July 21, 2012
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Mini-review: Ada Lovelace, Lucy Lethbridge

Title: Who Was… Ada Lovelace, Computer Wizard of Victorian England (Goodreads) Author: Lucy Lethbridge Rating: Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1843 Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and techno-whizz who had just built […]
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Posted on June 28, 2012
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Review: The Oracle, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Oracle (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: It is the summer before freshman year and Darcy and her five friends have come back to Cedar Cove Family Camp and Alitheia. This return is bittersweet because her elusive purpose in the magical realm continues to evade her. Egged on by Tellius, the boy prince she is prophesied […]
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Posted on June 15, 2012
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Review: The Six, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Six (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. A change in her dad’s job forces her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp the summer before her eighth-grade year, and Darcy once […]
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Posted on May 15, 2012
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Five For Friday: Beautiful Children’s Books

It’s Friday! It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to post a Friday Five. I visited the library this morning with my little boy and found a couple of the most beautiful children’s books that I wanted to share. If you have any favourites that I haven’t mentioned, please add them in the […]
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Posted on May 4, 2012
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Review: Dream Robbers, RC Scott

Title: Dream Robbers (Goodreads) Author: RC Scott (@jotoons) Rating: Greedy thieves have stolen the children’s dreams! And not just any dreams, mind you, but the Dreams of whom they are to become. With this loss children everywhere are becoming cross, and more misbehaved by the day. They are driving their parents mad.  Left alone in […]
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Posted on May 3, 2012
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Review: The Imaginality of Somewhere, Someone

Title: The Imaginality of Somewhere (Goodreads) Author: Someone Rating: The very brave and adventurous Ellie, as she would like to be described, and the always sensible and logical Thomas, move, with their parents, to a forsaken farmhouse due to falling on hard, economic times. But there is a reason this farmhouse was abandoned. Ellie and Thomas discover […]
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Posted on April 24, 2012
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