Theodosia Throckmorton is only 11 years old, but she’s already got her hands full at London’s Museum of Legends and Antiquities. Her father is the head curator and her mother a famous explorer, but neither of them ever seem to notice the powerful curses and black magic spells attached to the relics they bring home….
Tag: children’s literature
Review: The Humming Room
When recently orphaned Roo Fanshaw — thin, small, solitary — is sent to live with her eccentric uncle on Cough Rock Island, she does not expect to be happy. The house was at one point a tuberculosis sanitarium for children, and is full of ghost stories and secrets. Roo doesn’t believe in ghosts, so who…
Review: The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo is an utterly unexcitable little boy. When he’s at home he wants to be at school; but when he’s at school he wants to be at home. He doesn’t see the value of learning facts he’ll never need, and neither book nor toy interests him. But when he arrives home after another boring day…
Review: Saranormal: Ghost Town
Sara Collins is not happy. Her father has unexpectedly rooted her from her sunny California home and moved across country to an old shore town in New Jersey. Sharing a dilapidated house with a psychic who may or may not be a fraud is bad enough, but Sara’s main concern is the other occupants: the…
Review: Little House Books
My favorite Christmas gift from 2012 was this special two-volume collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books series. I read them dozens of times as a kid — especially Little House on the Prairie, which I read so much that the cover fell off. And when I opened this present from my mom at…