by Donna | Jun 5, 2010 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in November 2005) Rating: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast, by Robin McKinley. Harper Trophy (1978), 245 pages. This is a young adult book (ages ten and up, according to Harper Trophy) that doesn’t so...
by Cindy | Jan 17, 2010 | Bad Books, Fiction
(This review first appeared in July 2008) Rating: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski. Ecco (2008), 576 pages. I heard about The Story of Edgar Sawtelle long before it was published, due to early rave reviews billing it as “An American...