Sheets by Brenna Thummler is a bitter sweet story of a girl, Marjorie, who’s lost her mother and tries to cope with life in a new situation. She’ll get some help from Wendell, a ghost, who’s also feeling a bit out of place in the after-life. Sheets Brenna Thummler 4/5 stars Marjorie faces a […]
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Dream of a Butterfly
Richard Marazano’s and Luo Yin’s The Dream of the Butterfly is a unique story. The first volume was dreamy and intriguing and I was looking forward to get to see the resolution of this mysterious tale. The second volume is equally mesmerizing with its superb illustrations. The Dream of the Butterfly, part 2: Dreaming a […]
Judging a book by its cover?
Who hasn’t been drawn into a book by its tempting cover? Some covers are so beautiful, they’re art works in their own right. But book cover has a lot of work to do besides being a beauty. It should really be the visual blurb of the book. ”I think the best covers tell a […]
One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
When was the last time you read a textbook? Did the pictures catch your attention? Sometimes pictures literally jump off the pages, other times you don’t even notice there are any. I’m a visual person and I remember things best in images (also text from a book page). The textbooks of my school years didn’t […]