Traveling With Pomegranates A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor Viking, 2009. 282 pages. Starred Review 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #1 Biography Sue Monk Kidd does meditative…
I missed it! I was in the hospital dealing with the minor problem of a stroke, and I let my TEN year anniversary of starting Sonderbooks slide right by! Sonderbooks…
Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos Clarion Books, Boston, 2010. 166 pages. Starred Review I have two…
Pegasus by Robin McKinley G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010. 404 pages. Starred Review 2010 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #4 Teen Fantasy Fiction Robin McKinley is one of my favorite authors, so I…
Here’s a link to all the ALA Youth Media Award titles. If you look at my earlier posts, you can see that I did not do a good job of…
The Sacred Romance Drawing Closer to the Heart of God by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1997. 229 pages. Starred Review Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #3 Other…
Today I attended the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, and had an awesome time! I learned a bit from last year’s trip, which was something of a fiasco. I…
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale Read by Cynthia Bishop and the Full Cast Family Full Cast Audio, 2007. 8 CDs. 8 hours, 30 minutes. Text copyright 2004. http://www.squeetus.com/ http://www.fullcastaudio.com/ My…