Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

When you are a child you often think that more is better. I have learned over the years that sometimes less is more. Today's poetry book...

I love trees. Whenever life gets too hard or when my heart is aching, I head up into the hills to spend some time amongst the tress. Somethi...

When I was growing up one of my favorite pieces of music was Pictures at an Exhibition . The composer uses music to describe what he saw whe...

When I was ten years old I was lucky enough to cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner. Soon after dawn one summer morning we sailed past the S...

When I first started reviewing poetry titles I was sent a book full of haiku poems. I fell in love with this poetry form and have made a po...

I cannot remember a time when I wasn't interested in animals. I can recall lying on my stomach and watching ants for hours while a garde...

Many people covet the idea of going to live in the tropics. They dream of the warm temperatures, tropical flowers, and blues seas. One of my...

There is no doubt that Roald Dahl is one of the master craftsmen in the children's book world. He wrote wonderful stories like Matilda ,...

We are experiencing the contrary kind of weather that is the norm around here in spring. Snow showers on the mountains, cool temperatures in...

I am lucky enough to share my home with three wonderful felines. Legolas is a big, fluffy, ginger tabby who is easy-going and easy to pleas...

I always enjoy reading books that writers have written about other writers. Often the stories we encounter in such books are incredibly per...

Now that the year is coming to a close, many of us start to think about the year that has been and the year that is in the offing. Will the...

For me, the holiday season is a time to give thanks for all the wonderful things that I have in my life. One of these things is my home, my...

On our farm we get animal visitors all day and all night long. Owls live in our barn and soon after it gets dark they come out to look for ...

I have been lucky enough to read and review a wide variety of children's books over the last fifteen years or so. During that time I ha...

Here in southern Oregon it is a grey, wet day and I love it. We had a long Indian summer in October and I was feeling thoroughly sick and t...

Soon after I started reviewing children's books, I encountered an alphabet book that was created by a small publishing house in Michigan...

I have a confession to make. I do not know much about the Hispanic community here in the U.S. I really have never had the opportunity to le...

First and second person narratives in historical fiction can give readers a very powerful reading experience. These types of stories can br...

Many years ago I was sent a manuscript of a novel that was written in blank verse. I will honestly say that I was dreading reading it, but ...