Review: Wings Over Wendover, Meets the King by Eric Stephen Bocks

Wing Over Wendover, Meets the King

 By Eric Stephen Bocks

 
AuthorHouse
Softcover, ebook
ISBN: 9781504910415
ISBN: 9781504910422

Falcons, nights and magic all in one tale.  This is the third book in the Wing Over Wendover series.  Timmy is asked by his English teacher to run a booth at the Renaissance fair to show his falcon and tell people about falcons and falconry.  Timmy dresses in medieval clothes and has a fun time at the fair showing people Wendover, his falcon.  After the fair is over, Timmy decides to stop at a nearby farm field to fly Wendover.  He ends up bumping his head and waking up in the far past, working as an apprentice to the King’s falconer. 

He soon finds there is a plot afoot and has to decide who to trust and what to do to foil the plot.  This is a chapter book which seems to be written for pre-teens. 

I enjoyed the storyline and the artwork.  The book and cover art is appealing.

Review of 100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes by Marion T. Nichols

100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes

 By Marion T. Nichols

$19.99
Quarry Books
ISBN:  9781631590986

100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes is a wonderful simple craft book for anyone who can hold a pair of scissors.  Before showing detailed snowflake templates, the book introduces Marion and how she came to design such unique snowflakes.  The next sections talk about what kinds of materials and tools you can use and outline the basic technique for folding and cutting snowflakes.  

The snowflake templates are arranged in order of difficulty, from beginner to challenging.  The first snowflake is a starfish shape and is easy to fold and cut with nice results.  The bonus colored paper templates at the back of the book give a quick start to crafting snowflakes without the delay of making copies from the book.  The downloadable templates from the website are a nice resource and the website is easy to use to find and open the snowflake you would like to print and cut.

When I first read the description of this book, I was interested because of the craft and animal connection.  As soon as it arrived I fell in love with this beautiful craft book.  I will be sharing these wonderful snowflake crafts this holiday season.  I have worked and volunteered with youth for more than 25 years and I love finding new crafting ideas for youth activities. This wonderful book has so many possibilities.  I did have to guard the book from wandering off while I was reading and exploring it for this review.  The eye-catching cover shows some of the exciting snowflakes to be discovered inside.

I love the wild assortment of animals to choose from.  My favorite is the elk, but there are so many others, wolf, horse, rabbit, crab, flamingo, that it really is hard to choose just one favorite.    

This book is a great addition to my craft library and it is also beautiful gift for a crafter, teacher, snowflake lover, or animal lover.  I am looking forward to lots of creative snowflakes thanks to Marion T Nichols.

Kathy Johnson is a reviewer for BookPleasures.com and this review also appears on the BookPleasure review site.