Black Bead by J.D. Lakey is the first book in her series, the Black Bead Chronicles. The story takes place in an outlying planet where a colony of humans live in a matriarchal society. The women in this society have telepathic, psi, powers. They live in a dome, to protect themselves from the vicious animals that live on their planet. Usually starting around age 10, boys and … [Read more...] about Ebook Review: Black Bead
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Ebook Review: Zonk, the Dreaming Tortoise
David Hoobler is both the author and the illustrator of Zonk, the Dreaming Tortoise, as well as Zonk and the Secret Lagoon and Zonk and the Gray Whales’ Birthday Party. According to his author bio, David was inspired by the Sonoran Desert when he lived in Arizona, and he wrote Zonk, the Dreaming Tortoise as a exercise for a screenwriter he apprenticed for. David does not … [Read more...] about Ebook Review: Zonk, the Dreaming Tortoise
Ebook Review: Creeping Beath
I’m so happy that Matt Pike decided to write this series. In the fourth book of the series, Zombie RiZing: Creeping Beath, the story picks up right where it left off. Beath and the gang are driving through the city, trying to steer clear of grunts (zombies), giants, and other creatures as they make their way to the shopping mall for supplies. The poor kids, plus Ms. … [Read more...] about Ebook Review: Creeping Beath
Ebook Review: Life and Beath
Matt Pike is on a roll. He’s churning out books on a regular basis, and so far they’ve all been so good whenever I pick one up I can’t stop reading until I finish. Life and Beath gives some of the back story of Zhang, or Z-Hang, a plucky girl who has the power to move objects, and grunts (a.k.a zombies) from far away, using hand gestures. Without giving too much away, poor … [Read more...] about Ebook Review: Life and Beath
Ebook Review: A Fate Worse Than Beath
Matt Pike’s “A Fate Worse than Beath,” Book 2 of his Zombie RiZing series, picks right up where Book 1 ends. This time, Beath and her group of friends, Abby, Zhang, Sonny, and Vihaan, along with their science teacher Ms. Simmons a.k.a Ms. Magic (a nickname that is still being deliberated) go up against a giant and mean-spirited teenagers as well as the usual zombies … [Read more...] about Ebook Review: A Fate Worse Than Beath
E-Book Review: Cinderella, an interactive EPUB3 book
Yay for EPUB3! Stanislav Ustymenko recently emailed me to let me know about his EPUB3 children’s book, Cinderella, with text by the original author Charles Perrault. Cinderella is one of the books available in the Fairy Tales for Clever Kids app, available on iTunes and developed by Teamich Inc. Currently the app only has two books, but they are some of the few books that … [Read more...] about E-Book Review: Cinderella, an interactive EPUB3 book
