This is Gail Carson Levine's second book about writing. The first is Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly, which I loved when I read it in 2011.Like Mrs. Levine's first book on writing, she doesn't tell you how to write. This book is just full of advice and practices to help you in writing. It h...
I’m pretty indifferent about this one. It’s fine–a middle grade fantasy/mystery, with an emphasis on the mystery. But while I didn’t mind reading it (I did finish, after all) I also wasn’t really excited about it. (But then I’m also probably unfairly comparing this one to Ella Enchanted.)
Between binge watching the first two seasons of Once Upon A Time and being stuck in the children's room at the library every Thursday morning for story time, it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to the middle grade retelling of fairy tales books with their tempting covers. This past Thurs...
when you hear about a book of half-minute horrors for children, you kinda just shrug your shoulders and decide that you'll read it as a quick, easy filler in between books, right? but here's the thing: you're wrong. this book was absolutely not a buffer. it was actually creepy - and i say this as so...
What a clever book. Anybody learning or wanting to be a better writer should pick up this book. Helpful tips anywhere from characters, to plots to adding poetry. It's clear that Gail Carson Levine (author of Ella Enchanted) knows what she's doing. I really liked how every chapter gives the reader ...
Way better than "Two Princesses" and the dragon was very charming. Just the way I like my magical creatures to be: funny, loyal, brave, smart. Elodie was a good MC, and my mouth watered all the times I read "skewer". Yummy. For some reason, I was not really into the story as I was hoping. But it is ...
Booo, not what I have expected. It was hard to like Addie; all she does is being afraid, observe while her sister is dying. She is not as quiet as the plot suggest it; in fact, she whines a lot. And the dragon! What an awful personality. The book has all the elements I love so much in a Fantasy Medi...
Booo, not what I have expected. It was hard to like Addie; all she does is being afraid, observe while her sister is dying. She is not as quiet as the plot suggest it; in fact, she whines a lot. And the dragon! What an awful personality. The book has all the elements I love so much in a Fantasy Med...
“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at my mother, the fairy touched my nose. ‘My gift is obedience. Ella will always be ...
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