New releases: July 2017 – children’s books

I’ve just come back from a family vacation in France that included my two-year-old niece Amélie. Naturally, that means I’ve … More

J. K. Rowling’s new fairytale?

Christiane Amanpour from CNN interviewed our dearest Rowling earlier this week. Amanpour asked Rowling about rumours that she had written (but … More

Abdulwahid van Bommel is a former professor at the Rotterdam Islamic University and works as an Imam in several Dutch … More

Leland B. Jacobs was an American professor of education. He got a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, followed by a PhD … More

Bobbi Katz is an American poet and writer of children’s books, picture books and essays, biographies. She also holds workshops … More

The Gruffalo is an enormously famous book first published by Julia Donaldson in 1999, which spawned an entire Gruffalo series. … More

As habitual readers of my blog will know, on the fourth Wednesday I always choose a different genre’s top 5 … More

Ready for my first London review? As I mentioned in my earlier travel log, I bought many books in London, … More

Suzanne Collins. Hunger Games. Enough said about this world-famous author? Some of you might think so, but no. There is … More

On the last Wednesday of October, I’ve decided to delve deeper into the new releases of children’s books. A book … More

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini is an epic fantasy series about dragons. First things first, I did not just … More

The Hobbit was written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1937. It was the great financial and critical success of … More