How to Rid Your Swimming Pool of a Bloodthirsty Mermaid by Mick Bogerman My rating: 4 of 5 stars With a title like Slug Pie Story #2: How to Rid Your Swimming Pool of a Bloodthirsty Mermaid you know you’re in for an interesting take in children’s fiction. If there is any doubt allowed by such a title the cover says it all, reminding me of the classic horror-fiction of my youth. The two go…
ElsBeth and the Call of the Castle Ghosties by J. Bean Palmer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Book III in the Cape Cod Witch series brings us back together with Elsbeth Amelia Thistle, now a nine year old witch from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It is two years after The Pirate’s Treasure takes place, and Elsbeth and her cast of friends/classmates has grown and matured in the time since. The story opens by introducing us…
ElsBeth and the Pirate’s Treasure by J. Bean Palmer My rating: 5 of 5 stars This children’s book was a cute, short read. True to the book’s blurb, Elsbeth and the Pirate’s Treasure is about a little girl named Elsbeth who is in second grade and happens to be a witch, and becomes embroiled in a search for pirate’s treasure gone awry. Evenly-paced and written for a young reader, this story is nonetheless delivered with…
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