The Orange Swan Review

The 1983 Newbery Medal Winner Cynthia Voigt’s Dicey’s Song , like Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown , is one of the Newbery award winn...

The 1925 Newbery winner, Charles J. Finger’s Tales From Silver Lands , is a collection of nineteen folktales, gathered by Finger during his ...

Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown is one of the books on the Newbery list I have most dreaded reviewing. When it comes to qualiti...

On a recent trip to Value Village I came across a copy of Jemima J: a novel about ugly ducklings and swans , by Jane Green. I distinctly rem...

Like a lot of other Canadians I read Margaret Wente’s column in The Globe and Mail at least semi-regularly, and again as is common with man...

The 1924 Newbery medalist, The Dark Frigate , is about a young sailor named Philip Marsham, and his adventures and misadventures on land and...

For a special Valentine’s Day Orange Swan Review article, I've written a little piece about online personal ads. All the quotes in this...

Back in my college days, I bought secondhand copies of Nick Bantock’s irresistibly beautiful Griffin & Sabine and The Golden Mean . I d...

Olive Schreiner’s book The Story of an African Farm is one of those books that are more important and interesting for its cultural and hist...

Lynne Rae Perkins’ Criss Cross , the 2006 Newbery Medal winner, is a novel about a group of teenagers in a small town called Seldem, and tak...

The first-ever Newbery award-winner, The Story of Mankind , written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon, is difficult to review not b...

Although I have read the very first Newbery Medal winner, The Story of Mankind , by Hendrik Willem van Loon (and am, er, working on the revi...

I decided to read Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn , by Joan Hardwick, because I was intrigued by the description...

Last July there appeared on Metafilter a front page post about a book called From The Ballroom to Hell, by T.A. Faulkner . As MeFites were q...