The Orange Swan Review

Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing , has been on my radar for a...

The 1929 Newbery Medal Award Winner, The Trumpeter of Krakow , by Eric P. Kelly , which (as you would expect from the title) is set in Kra...

I first became aware of Lindy West via Twitter several years back because my friends would often retweet some of her bon mots . I followed ...

The 2016 Newbery Medal Winner, Last Stop on Market Street , written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, is an atypica...

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 ...

A Good Reads review written by Good Reads member Phil Jern says of Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon , by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the Newbery Med...

Years ago when the movie The Red Violin came out, I read a review of it in which the reviewer complained that an inanimate object doesn...

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

The Newbery medalist for 1934, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women , by Cornelia Meigs, hasn't aged well. But ...

The Newbery medal-winner for 1926, Shen of The Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, is another Newbery winner that ...

One of the paradoxes of our time is that while people often claim that publishing is in its death throes, it’s never been easier to get publ...

In the Newbery Medal winner for 2003, Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi life for Crispin, a boy of thirteen living in England in 1376 A.D...