-SPOILER FREE- When CS Lewis wrote Narnia, he wasn’t really writing fantasy – he was playing with “dressed rabbits” – a style of anthropomorphizing pastoral animals and mythic creatures (like centaurs) so as to give the story a magical setting. Basically, however, the creatures all followed rules that were fairly basic to regular humans and…

-SPOILER FREE- I could not review the third book in the series, Monster in the Hollows, simply because I wasted few minutes between reading it and reading this one. While I have the big picture items clear between the two, the story just flows so much together that I have a hard time separating them…

A Children’s Book Review by Sara Masarik – On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness This is a war story. A compelling, intriguing, sometimes quirky, but deeply moral war story. This is the kind of story that helps us believe that we could stand and be counted if called upon to do so….