I’ll be honest: I was partly drawn to this one because of the cover. And also, because I like books about dragons and that’s what this one promised to be. It’s not exactly what it turned out to be, though, and I’m still mulling over what I think of that. The basic plot of Dragonborn is a fairly st...
Fireborn by Toby Foward is a juvenile companion novel to Forward’s Dragonborn, set in a different time but the same fantastical world. I haven’t read Dragonborn and was under the impression by “companion novel” that that wouldn’t impede my reading of Fireborn. I’m not sure if that is the case, but i...
A very nice 'mousey' twist on A Christmas Carol. Of course the theme and structure are similar, but thankfully it's not the same story retold with mouse characters. The real standout here are the illustrations by Ruth Brown. Not only are they simply lovely, but they very cleverly incorporate the ori...