In October 2012, I had the opportunity to review the wonderful book,The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton by Angela Shelton. Now Angela Shelton is back, with a new Tilda Pinkerton Book, Tilda Pinerton’s Magical Hats. This installment is for younger children, K1-4.
Book Description:
Publisher: Quiet Owl Books April 1, 2013) Category: Children’s Literature/Fantasy/Magic Tour Date: July- Early August, 2013 Available in: eBook and Print, 196 Pages, including a 344 Word Glossary Illustrated by James Murry
Eleven-year-old Madison Mae and her younger brother, Albert, want to help save the family farm during troubled times. When a mysterious Magical Hat Shop appears by their grandpa’s red tractor mailbox, the children meet Tilda Pinkerton who presents them with one-of-a-kind hats, causing new ideas and talents to suddenly burst forth. As a flood of harm comes rushing towards the farm, Tilda Pinkerton teaches the children how they can accomplish much more than anyone ever imagined.
Increase your child’s vocabulary, self esteem and awareness of social issues, while they enjoy a great story! Tilda Pinkeron’s Magical Hats does it all. Grades K1-4.
My Thoughts:
I do not have any children and my neice is 21 years old now, so I read this book for my own please and to give my honest review.Wow, what a pleasure it was!You do not have to have a child to enjoy it.
Madison Mae and her younger brother, Albert happen a woodchuck wearing a hat. His name is Samuel P. Hoppbottom, “Sammy for short”. He’s no ordinary woodchuck, he can talk. He tells the children that the hat is bulletproof helmet and that Tilda Pinkerton gave it to him to keep safe. It turns out that Madison Mae’s and Albert’s grandfather shoots at him every chance he gets.
Sammy told the children that they should visit Tilda Pinkerton at her hat shop and she would give them each a magical hat. I can’t tell any more at the risk of giving out spoilers.
IMO the Tidler Pinkerton series of books, so far are destined to become classics. The writing is fresh and engaging, with a fun plot and wonderful characters. Children will have so much fun while growing their vocabulary at the same time. They will be having so much fun, they won’t even realize they are learning! To make the book even more fun there are black and white illistrations for children to color in whatever colors they like! I highly recommend Tilda Pinkerton”s Magical Hats, Book One. This is one for children to enjoy with adults or without.
5/5
I received this book for my honest review.
About Angela Shelton:
Angela Shelton is an author, actor, blogger and public speaker. She has been writing since she was eight years old. Her first novel was adapted into the movie Tumbleweeds. Angela won a regional Emmy award for her portrayal of Safe Side Superchick in The Safe Side video series created by Baby Einstein’s Julie Clark and America’s Most Wanted’s John Walsh. After living in Los Angeles for over a decade, Angela left the big city for a one-light country town to marry her first love and fulfill her dream of writing books in a barn house.
Find out how Angela has incorporated the character of Tilda Pinkerton into an entire line of book projects, each geared towards a different age group atwww.MagicHatShop.com
Thanks to the author, Angela Shelton, I am giving away on copy of Tilda Pinkerton’s Magical Hats! This giveaway is international. If the winner is in the U.S. s/he will receive the book in print. It’s a beautiful hardcover! An international winner would receive the ebook. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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I absolutely loved Jennifer Cody Epstein’s book, The Painter From Shanghai! So when Amy Bruno asked me if I wanted to take part in this tour, I jumped at the chance!
Description of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A lush, exquisitely rendered meditation on war, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the most devastating acts of war in human history. Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm—an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins. In the days that follow, Yoshi’s old life will blur beyond recognition, leading her to a new world marked by destruction and shaped by those considered the enemy: Cam, a downed bomber pilot taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army; Anton, a gifted architect who helped modernize Tokyo’s prewar skyline but is now charged with destroying it; and Billy, an Occupation soldier who arrives in the blackened city with a dark secret of his own. Directly or indirectly, each will shape Yoshi’s journey as she seeks safety, love, and redemption. My Thoughts: The Gods of Heavenly punishment was a bit different than most books that take place during World War II. It gives the reader a inside view of what Japan was like before, during, and after the war. First we are introduced to a young couple in love, Cameron Richards and Lacey Robertson. Of course, Cameron is called into action to go to war with Japan as a fighter pilot. Then in pre-war Japan we are introduced to two families having dinner together. One a Japanese family and one American Family living in Japan. The head of the American family is architect, Anton Reynolds, his wife and their son, Billy. The head Japanese family is building contractor, Kenji Kobayashi, who works for Anton, his educated wife, Hana, and their daughter, Yoshi. The story is told in vignettes that are ultimately connected. The main common thread, being Yoshi. Without giving too much away, I had trouble with how the story was told, it just didn’t flow well for me and I would have liked to delve into some of the unwritten parts of the story more. There was one part that I would have edited out all together. I just didn’t think it added to the story. However, that said, I still found the book quite worthwhile. It showed a side of the war that hasn’t been covered that much and how it affected both sides. I recommend The Gods of Heavenly Punishment. 3.5/5 I received the ebook format of this book for my honest opinion. About Jennifer Cody Epstein:
Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment and the international bestseller The Painter from Shanghai. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Self, Mademoiselle and NBC, and has worked in Hong Kong, Japan and Bangkok, Thailand. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two daughters and especially needy Springer Spaniel. For more information, please visit www.jennifercodyepstein.com. Thanks to Amy Bruno of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, I am giving away one copy of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment. This giveaway is open internationally and ends on July 9, 2013. Please use Rafflecopter to enter. a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Publisher: Three Clover Press (February 1, 2013) Category: Vietnam War, Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller Tour Dates: May 2013 Available in: Print and ebook 384 Pages
In this suspense thriller set during the Vietnam War, Victor Ortega is a rogue CIA agent, and he needs someone to blame for his crimes. Recon Marine Ethan Card is the perfect patsy. As a teen, Ethan ran with a Chicago street gang, and he has a criminal record. He also has a secret lover, Tuyen, who is half Vietnamese and half French.
Tuyen is a stunning, beautiful Viet Cong resistance fighter.
Since she was a young child, Tuyen has lived under the control of her brutal, older, sexually abusive half-brother, Giap, a ruthless and powerful Viet Cong leader, who has forced her to kill Americans in battle or die if she refuses.
When Ethan discovers he is going to be court marshaled for weapons he did not sell to the Viet Cong and Tuyen will be arrested and end up in an infamous South Vietnamese prison, where she will be tortured and raped, he hijacks a U.S. Army helicopter and flees with Tuyen across Southeast Asia while struggling to prove his innocence.
Victor Ortega and Giap—working together with the support of an unwitting American general—will stop at nothing to catch the two, and the hunt is on.
The star-crossed lovers travel across Laos to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat; to Bangkok, Thailand, and then to Burma’s Golden Triangle where Ethan and Tuyen face a ruthless drug lord and his gang.
In the rainforests of Burma, Ethan also discovers Ortega and Giap have set in motion a massive assault on his Marine unit’s remote base in South Vietnam with the goal of killing the man he admires most, Colonel Edward Price, who is the only one who believes Ethan is innocent.
Ethan must risk everything to save Price and his fellow Marines. Will he succeed?
When Lloyd Lofthouse approached me about his new book, I got excited. I loved The Concubine Saga so was highly anticipating his next book. However, I was a bit nervous at the same time because, this time, he write an action/adventure/thriller. Though I do watch some movies in that genre, I rarely read books in it.
As I started reading, I quickly saw that I didn’t have to worry. Running With the Enemy has some of the great elements I loved so much in The Concubine Saga; the character development, plot, setting, and historical elements. All the things I need to make a book a great read.
The action was pretty much non-stop. The love affair between Ethan and Tuyen felt real. The bad guys were scary bad! The only thing that seemed out of place to me, was the character, Victor Ortega’s use of the word “man”. I know that word was used a lot in the 60’s but he said it at the end of just about every sentence. For me, it took away from the flow of the novel.
This heart pounding adventure is not for the faint of heart. It is full of sex and violence. It is for adults only! That said, I highly recommend it! Lloyd Lofthouse did it again! I can hardly wait to see where his next novel takes us!
4.5/5
I received the ebook of this book for my honest opinion.
About Lloyd Lofthouse:
Lloyd Lofthouse, a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran, served in Vietnam as a field radio operator in 1966. Back home, Lloyd was a heavy drinker until 1981, never talked about the war and suffered from PTSD. In the early 1980s, he confronted his demons by writing about his war experiences in an MFA program.
Running with the Enemystarted as a memoir and then evolved into fiction.
His short story,A Night at the “Well of Purity”, named a finalist of the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards, was based on an event Lloyd experienced in Vietnam.
His novelMy Splendid Concubinehas earned ten honorable mentions in general fiction—a few examples: the 2008 London Book Festival; 2009 San Francisco Book Festival; 2009 Los Angeles Book Festival, and the 2012 New York Book Festival, etc.
In 1999, his wife, Anchee Min, the author of the memoirRed Azalea, a book that was named aNew York Times Notable Book of the Yearin 1994, introduced Lloyd to Robert Hart, the real-life character ofMy SplendidConcubine.
After an honorable discharge from the U.S. Marines in 1968, Lloyd went to college on the GI Bill to earn a BA in journalism, and then worked days as a public school teacher for thirty years (1975 – 2005) in addition to nights and weekends as a maître d’ in a Southern California nightclub called the Red Onion (1980-1982).
Thanks to the author, Lloyd Lofthouse, I am giving away one copy of Running With the Enemy.This giveaway is open internationally.If in the U.S., there is the choice of choice of print, mobi, epub, or pdf.If outside the U.S., ebook only. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.
Angela Shelton is an author, actor, blogger and public speaker. She has been writing since she was eight years old. Her first novel was adapted into the movie Tumbleweeds. Angela won a regional Emmy award for her portrayal of Safe Side Superchick in The Safe Side video series created by Baby Einstein’s Julie Clark and America’s Most Wanted’s John Walsh. After living in Los Angeles for over a decade, Angela left the big city for a one-light country town to marry her first love and fulfill her dream of writing books in a barn house.
