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Book Reviews

From Children’s Books Through Adult Level Nonfiction – Click on the picture to go to the article

Books for Under 5 Years Old

My Top 20 Favorites

School Aged Children’s Books

Pinocchio
Wizard of Oz
Zip and the Golden Trombone
The Princess and the Goblin
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Prydan
Peter Pan
Treasure Island
Men of Iron
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Heidi
A Wrinkle in Time
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Captain’s Courageous
Pippi Longstocking
Over Sea Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Gray King
The Hobbit
Cricket in Time Square
The Secrect Garden
Call of the Wild
The Last Unicorn
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Thornton the Whale
Reuben the Rooster
The Tale of Despereaux
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Door in the Wall
Dragons at Crumbling Castle

Young Adult (13 Years Old +) Fantasy Fiction

Choice of the Mighty
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Winter-night Trilogy
Heart Song
All Things Now Living
Astray
The Sorcerer’s Bane
Raising Steam
The Unnamed Solider
The Glass Magician
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Etiana’s Worth
The Gray Isle Tale
The Trombonist of Munst
The Paper Magician Trilogy
Dragon’s Fire
Guardian of Ajalon
Flight of the Spark
Stolen Shroud
Princess Bride
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Last Unicorn
The Adventures of Sage Goliad
Gryphendale
The Shadow of the Gryphon
The Gryphon’s Handmaiden
The Gryphon of Stone
The Secrets of Cinnamon Cinderguard
Darts
A Wizard of Earthsea
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Mermaid’s Apprentice
The Lord of the Rings

Adult Level Fiction

The Retail
Scaramouche
The Sea-Hawk
Phantasies, a faerie romance for men and women
Pygmilion
Gulliver’s Travels
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Blue Fairy Book
Ruth: A Love Story
Jane Eyre
Christy
The Arabian Nights
Sir Gibbie
The Lark and The Wre

Nonfiction

Biography of Coco Chanel
On Fairy Stories
Biography of Jane Austin
Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Orchids on Your Budget
Forever Chic
Conversation
The Nesting Place
What Color is your Parachute?
Write and Revise for Publication
Steering the Craft
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
How to Write Funny
Poetics
Don’t Panic

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