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This powerful, well-written debut is an outstanding read not to be missed. I have read 164 books this year so far and this book is definitely in my top ten reads of 2023.
My brand-new emotionally complex and deeply researched historical middle-grade novel, Light Comes to Shadow Mountain, started life on the page—and in my mind—as a picture book.
A fantastic and engrossing read about resilience, found family, and hope even in the darkest of circumstances. Elliott is a must-read author.
There seems like an awfully long distance between the past and future and yet, whether it is 1940 or 2040, the questions I continue to find most intriguing are timeless. Who are we in the worst of times? What does it mean to survive? And, What do we want our world to look like?
If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life. An excellent debut about challenging expectations and finding your own path.
My challenge lay in writing a novel set in a dystopian real world, Communist Czechoslovakia in 1969, that was 20 years away from liberation…and still offer hope to the reader.
Follow along as we celebrate the release of The Law of Cavities (October 11th) with behind-the-scenes looks from author Valerie Tripp, plus 5 chances to win all 3 books in the Izzy Newton series!
Historical fiction helps [kids] see that the past is closer to the present than they ever imagined, that the lives of people who lived long ago are not so different from their own.
Author Kip Wilson talks about the importance of getting the facts right in historical fiction.
Here then is a hope that in the future we’ll have a different set of expectations. Our children’s books have historically whitewashed the past. Let’s hope that going forward they have the wherewithal to open the eyes of their child readers to what it was really like in the past.
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