If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! In my opinion you arent a total waste of time, says the towns visiting Bard to eleven-year-old Jack. Dont let that go to your head, boy. You could easily be a'partial waste...

'I just didnt think it would be this cold, says Arden, Lilys dreamily named and dreamily natured mother. You never think it will be'this cold, responds Lily.'Or this bad or this hard or this long. Lily and her mother have moved a dozen or so times in the past decade, shuffling along somewhere new each time one of...

  Why yes, I am the book blogger equivalent of the White RabbitIm running rather embarrassingly late in getting to the Lemony Snicket party. Having recently reviewed the first in the'Sisters Eight series and'A Tale Dark and Grimm, both of which are examples of gloomy, gothic style fiction where the narrator looms large and the writing...

Fairy tales are life lessons disguised with colourful characters and situations, preaches Mrs Peters to her class of apathetic pre-teens, among them our twin protagonists, swotty Alex and snoozy layabout Conner. After this valiant bit of Aesopian moralising, Peters'goes on to bemoan the loss of the original Hans Christian Anderson and Brothers...

Ricky Darlin is relieved when he wakes from a nightmare in which hes trapped on an island. Only, upon waking hes confronted with something worse: a version of Peter Pan who speaks in a horribly rendered Australian accent that makes him sound as though hes been taking voice coaching lessons from Crocodile Dundee and a Cockney cab...

I once read somewhere about a list of things meant to break curses, says Tanya. The list was being near running water, like a stream or a book, the colour red, salt, turning clothes inside out, and iron. Its a good thing that thirteen-year-old Tanya pays attention to what she reads, because the fairy realm that shes...