Snow & Rose

Title: Snow & Rose Author & Illustrator: Emily Winfield Martin Publisher: Random House Format Read: Hardback “Snow & Rose” is a retelling of the fairy tale ‘Snow White and Rose Red.’ This is an illustrated novel full of magic, secrets, mysterious disappearances, and the bond between two sisters. Once, Snow and Rose lived in a…

Garlic and the Witch

Title: Garlic and the Witch Author & Illustrator: Bree Paulsen Publisher: Harper Alley Format Read: Paperback Sequel to ‘Garlic and the Vampire’, ‘Garlic and the Witch’ is a charming middle grade graphic novel. You follow a vegetable person called Garlic and she navigates life in her magical village…and finds that big scary change need not…

The Complete Maus

Title: The Complete Maus Author & Illustrator: Art Spiegelman Publisher: Penguin Format Read: Paperback ‘Maus’ is a graphic novel that follows Art Spielgman’s father Vladek as he survives World War II and the Holocaust. Alternating between the 1970s, when the author was younger, and the times of his father’s youth, the illustrations here are fully…

The Birds and Other Stories

Title: The Birds and Other Stories Author: Daphne du Maurier Publisher: Virago Modern Classics Format Read: Kindle First published in 1952, “The Birds and Other Stories” is a collection of short stories, all of them featuring elements of the supernatural. Of these, I do believe “The Birds” is the most well known. After all, Alfred…