Audience: Grades 1-5 Format: Hardcover - Library Copy "What is it, Sassafras?" I crouched down and ruffled my cat's fluffy fur. - first sentence This book is a fabulous early chapter book. Zoey and her cat Sassafras both love bugs and science and when Zoey discovers that her mom secretly t...
Now I yearn for fried bread. Drat.
A bittersweet read–the last Diana Wynne Jones. It reads pretty young and I prefer her older books. But the genuine kookiness and slightly unlikeable characters that make up so much of her work are definitely present.
A strange feeling to be reading the last book Diana Wynne Jones completed. Earwig and the Witch, aimed for younger readers, touches on the same territory as The Ogre Downstairs where it can be read as being about the relationship between children and those who are meant to be looking after them, an...
I simply loved it. It's meant for younger children - quite young I'd say from about five years, so despite me missing the age range by a few miles it is just the most enjoyable little story.