by applewooddollhospital | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Thomas More I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book. I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 2, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Sid Fleischman When buying books for the next school year, there was a Sid Fleischman book on the list that I purchased which must have been what made Ebay suggest “The Whipping Boy” to me. I forgot all about this book! It was one of my favorites as a kid.Happily,...
by applewooddollhospital | May 9, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare – she kind of pops up at the beginning of the book for a minute and then again at the end. Saint Francis, whose father was a successful merchant, came...