The Orange Swan Review

Since I don't think I need to worrying about spoiling a novel that is nearly 300 years old, let me start off with a synopsis of Samuel ...

The inside jacket text of my library copy of the Newbery medalist for 1927, Will James's Smoky the Cowhorse , says that "A cowboy...

Satire is a difficult thing to review for the same reason that Saturday Night Live sketches generally don’t make good movies: because sati...

I was overjoyed when I first learned that Faith Sullivan had written a sequel to The Cape Ann . It had been a long time coming. The Cape Ann...

I’m contemplating a large, ongoing project for The Orange Swan Review : to review all the Newbery Medal winners. To give you an idea of the...

Patrick Suskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a novel about the life and career of an orphan boy born in eighteenth century Paris. ...

Witch Child by Celia Rees is a young adult novel about a seventeenth-century English girl, Mary. The woman who raised Mary and whom Mary ca...