"Helping adults find great children's books"
Title: The Death of Yorik Mortwell Author: Stephen Messer (illustrated by Gris Grimly) Genre: Middle-grade Gothic fantasy novel (Dark Fantasy) Age Category: 9 years + Summary: The Death of Yorik Mortwell It’s not every day you come across a book where the hero dies in the first chapter. But in The Death of Yorik Mortwell, [...]
Title: The Door in the Forest Author: Roderick Townley Genre: Middle-grade Fiction (Children’s fantasy novels) Age Category: 8 years + Children’s Fantasy Novel: The Door in the Forest Daniel Crowley cannot tell a lie. For most of his life, this inability has been a fairly manageable annoyance. Now, as soldiers move into the small town [...]
