BOOK REVIEWS

Welcome to Sparrow Tree Square's new book reviews section! As of September 2011, all of the reviews archived on our experimental Under the Apple Tree project have been transferred to this site and reorganized. Here you'll find a handy collection of all of the book reviews featured in the magazine as well as book reviews originally printed in my sister Maureen Friel's Halfway Down the Stairs magazine. You'll also find a small but growing selection of reviews written especially for this section and reviews originally featured on the Sparrow Tree Square blog.

Most of the books featured here are books that my sister and I have personally enjoyed and wanted to share with our readers. Recently, we have also begun accepting copies of new books to review from professionals working in the publishing industry. All of the books that we feature here, regardless of how we came across them, meet certain standards of content and quality to ensure that they are appropriate for their intended audience. You can read more about these standards and learn how to submit your book for review on our "Book Review Guidelines" page.

Sparrow Tree Square is a member of the Amazon Associates program. On each book review page you'll find an image of the book's cover that links to its page on Amazon.com. (These images may not be viewable if you have ad-blocking software enabled. There are no advertisements on Sparrow Tree Square, so you may wish to disable such software while browsing our site.) If you make any purchase on Amazon after clicking on one of our links, we recieve a small referral fee. We never see any information regarding your purchases or your identity.

If you'd like to dive right in and explore our available reviews, use the menu to the right to select an age range.

 

Right illustration by Edmund Dulac, from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, 1911.