Jenny Nimmo
Birth date: January 15, 1944
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This is a small, odd little middle grade fantasy. It’s set in Wales, which is totally catnip to me. However, I felt a bit distanced from all the characters–it was like emotional beats were set up but not fleshed out enough for me to buy them.
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...
the short of it—kids book based in Ireland, very fanciful, filled with magic and puzzles, i don't quite get where it was headed
On his ninth birthday Gwyn is given a brooch, a scarf, a piece of seaweed, a tin whistle and a small broken horse by his grandmother and told to give them to the wind. The first thing he gives to the wind is the brooch which comes back as the snow spider and suddenly magic is in his life, real and ...
Bought on a lark while at the Scholastic warehouse searching for holiday gifts for my students. I had several students say that their favorite genre was mystery, and as that's never been one of MY favorites, I ended up buying just about anything that sounded vaguely mystery-like and interesting.Thi...
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