The Serpent Awakes
10 best books like The Serpent Awakes (Allan Frewin Jones): Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1, Strega Nona, The Story Girl, Even this Page is White, I Love You, Stinky Face, That Scatterbrain Booky, Sanctuary, The Hollow Tree, Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
| Author | Harry Allard |
| ISBN | 0395401461 |
The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school.
So begins this quirky classic, first published in 1977 and still relevant today as a lighthearted reminder to show our...
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
| Author | Young Kim |
| ISBN | 0759529434 |
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 8424133498 |
Review
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola is the first book in a classic children's literature series from the 1970s and 1980s. It was eventually made into a cartoon and several other children's merchandise, all fun and educational toys as kids grew up. I enjoyed the premise of the books but only read...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1576463214 |
Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 1551526417 |
Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.
The subheadings of these poems...
| Author | Lisa McCourt |
| ISBN | 0439634695 |
A vividly illustrated bedtime story that shows how the unconditional love of a mother can be tested through the relentless questions of her little boy.
"But Mama, but Mama, what if I were a super smelly skunk, and I smelled so bad that my name was Stinky Face?"
Mothers love their children...
| Author | Bernice Thurman Hunter |
| ISBN | 0590710826 |
Booky didn't know much about the reasons for the Great Depression. All she knew was that she was hungry all the time, that her parents fought constantly, that the bailiff would soon return to evict her family from their home. Worst of all, she knew that Christmas would be a time of empty stockings instead...
| Author | Melissa Marr |
| ISBN | 0061493546 |
The world of Melissa Mar's New York Times bestselling dark fantasy series Wicked Lovely comes to manga! This three-volume series focuses on Rika, a minor character in Wicked Lovely: formerly a mortal, formerly a Winter Girl, and formerly loved by the Summer King.
The dry, near-empty desert...
| Author | Janet Lunn |
| ISBN | 0142301426 |
From one of Canada's best loved children's writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged for being a British spy. When she finds a message...
| Author | Alma Flor Ada |
| ISBN | 0688170676 |
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
| Author | Jean Little |
| ISBN | 0670875937 |
An inspiring story of self discovery. In Jean Little's first historical novel, Elspet Mary, a young Scottish orphan, embarks on the journey of a lifetime when she emigrates with relatives to Canada in the 1840s. Her struggle to make a place for herself, not only in her adoptive family but in her new home...
