The Other Side of Yore Review

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The Other Side of Yore ReviewI like books of fantasy for kids. I feel they are important. Most children love a good, rousing story, including 63 year old ones like myself, and getting the young ones to read is getting more and more difficult each year. This wonderful little story is bound to grab any kid of any age and keep him going from front to back.
The story is a quest story whose setting is the world of Terramore. This world is inhabited by a wonderful assortment of creatures, from toads, to frogs to foxes, snakes, lizards, insects of all sorts and some critters I am not real sure about. Our hero, Frawg Findig III, a very special frog in many ways, finds himself caught up in an adventure, an adventure, which must be had in order to save their world. We already have plenty of plot summaries here, so I will not dwell on that further.
The book is quite well written. J. Lynon Layden's prose approaches lyrical at times here, and once you catch on to his syntax, you will find it delightful. His imagination has created and entire world, an alien world to be sure, yet one that is not as alien as you might think at first glance...it is all around us. For such a short story, his character development is quite remarkable and he is able to convey the characteristics of his characters using very few, but very effective words. I like that. The poetry sprinkled here and there throughout the book is absolutely delightful, some being more song than poetry.
The illustrations by Kenny Savage are in black and white and are quite effective and detailed. They are actually a delight to the eye. I would have liked to have seen them in color as I feel they would have been beautiful, but suspect this would have been cost prohibitive in the production of the book.
As a retired person, needing something to keep me from being underfoot all the time, I do a tremendous amount of substitute teaching at local school. I took this book with me and "forced" a number of the young folks to read at least the first two chapters, and indeed read them to the entire class on several occasions. There was not one student that did not want more. This of course is the ultimate test for this genre...do the kids like it and will they read it. If response here is any indication, the answer is a yes for this book.
I do hope we get more of Frawg from this author and this illustrator. This work is a joy to read but it does leave you with wanting more. Highly recommend this one.
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The Returning Review

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The Returning ReviewCam Attling left his hometown of Kayforl to fight in the war. Just a boy when he joined, Cam lost an arm but is the only person from Kayforl to survive the combat. He knows his fortune occurred because Lord Gyaar, son to the winning side's ruler, allowed him to live.
At home, he finds the townsfolk resent his surviving when other loved ones died. His family wants him to leave as they are embarrassed he came back alive while his engagement to Graceful Fenister ends ungracefully when she wants nothing to do with him. Cam leaves Kayforl for the second time in search of the Lord who spared him to learn why. On his quest for the truth he becomes friends with a boy and meets others like Diido who lost everything to the war.
This is an engaging novel that looks deeply at the impact of war on the returning vets and those in the home-front. The living must move on emotionally with what happened to their loved ones and yet must rebuild their devastated world in order to survive the ordeal. Although being an in depth character study including looking at villages like Kayforl limits the action and slows the pace deliberately as Christine Hinwood cleverly avoids dumbing down with her powerful tale that respects the middle school audience as intelligent caring readers.
Harriet Klausner
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A "Catcher's" Companion: The World Of Holden Caulfield Review

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A "Catcher's" Companion: The World Of Holden Caulfield ReviewI wasn't sure what this book was going to be about at first, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. What the author has done is take the weekend of December 17 thru 19,1949, the weekend of Holden Caulfield's sorry escape to Manhattan, and explain every damn bit of cultural trivia pertaining to the event itself or the text of The Catcher in the Rye.
I suppose it helps if you are willing to assume, as the author apparently does, that Holden was "real" and his experiences occurred in a historically accurate environment, but even if you don't McDaniel's lighthearted approach will probably win you over. The book is a lot of fun. Its sort of an annotated version of The Catcher in the Rye, but with the notes in a separate book. You'll probably want to keep a copy of TCITRclose by while you read because The Catcher's Companion touches on topics and details you might very well have missed unless you are an obsessive re-reader of Salinger's book.
This book should work very well for high school and college-age readers since it presupposes a lack of familiarity with dial telephones, typewriters and 78 rpm records, but even if you are old enough to remember those things there are plenty of other extended digressions that will both amaze and amuse. The passages on who the real Estelle Fletcher might have been, or who the fat piano player at Ernie's was modeled on are eye-opening. There are plenty of illustrations and drawings to further spice-up the text.
If I wanted to be uncharitable I might quibble with McDaniel on his decision to place all of the action on the weekend of December 17-19 instead of December 10-12 as some others have done, and I'm not sure his comments on the peculiar movie Phoebe saw at the Lister Foundation are as much an answer as an evasion. But that's small beans compared to the
fun I had reading this book.
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles) Review

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles) Review"The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feel like it is so wrapped up in others."
Jenna was left comatose after a tragic accident. One year later, she awakens to a life she can't recall, a body she doesn't recognize, two parents and a grandmother doesn't really know, and a house she can't leave. Her parents want her to stay at home for a while in order to make full recovery and avoid a relapse. Their smiles are cautious, wary; her grandmother's smile is sad, almost bitter.
When Jenna watches old home movies, she can't help but think of herself as two people. (Since she narrates the story in first person, it's easy to follow this train of thought: there's "Jenna," dancing and smiling away on the recordings, and there's "I" or "me" watching them in the present day. Also, there are shaded pages, passages in which Jenna has mental confessions about the past, present, and future.) She knows she was a dancer, a daughter, a student, a friend, and that she was happy, but the most of this knowledge comes from outside sources rather than her own memories. She does not want to rely on what the videos show and what her family tells her - she wants to know herself, herself.
Bits and pieces of her past begin tug at the edges of her mind, but they are not always happy and rarely are they clear. If anything, these blurry scenes and feelings only make her more confused about what happened to her, with her, around her. With the help of others - some forthcoming and some reluctant - things begin to clear up. The edges of her mind are still jagged and raw. Tidbits scraping there only serve to open up old wounds and leave new scars.
Wanting to know who she was, why she is the way she is, and what happened the night of the accident, Jenna pushes her parents' buttons as well as her own physical and mental limits. Her arms, hands, legs and feet, which once were "perfect," don't look, feel, or move the way they used to, her physical changes being as obvious and frustrating to her as her mental blocks. Though she is at first scared and tentative, Jenna keeps trying to get to the bottom of things until she gets through to others and dares to walk on a new path.
"Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?"
This book brings up many questions, not only physiological and psychological but also philosophical:
How much can you really trust your memories - and if you lose them, can you get them back? Can you get yourself back?
"Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one."
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson is a stunning, fascinating novel. This eye-opening story which openly explores the concept of identity will stay on your mind for a long, long time.The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles) Overview

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