Search Results: "Nina Milton"


BOOK REVIEW

UNRAVELED VISIONS by Nina Milton
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: Sept. 8, 2014

"With so many plotlines, it's hard to follow Sabbie's irresponsible yet amusing actions. Readers may wish they'd had more help from Trendle, Sabbie's otter spirit guide, in showing the way."
A shamanic healer has her own fortune read only to find that predictions of the future offer no protection from it. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

BENEATH THE TOR by Nina Milton
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Dec. 8, 2015

"Less successful than others in this series (Unraveled Visions, 2014, etc.), partly because both Milton's villain and heroine are insufficiently sketched to draw one in, partly perhaps because she's trying to do too much at once."
The mysterious death of a woman in a shamanic group leads one of her colleagues to launch a full-bore investigation on earthly and other planes. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

IN THE MOORS by Nina Milton
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: Sept. 8, 2013

"A fast-moving thriller likely to draw in readers despite, or perhaps because of, its bizarre heroine."
Children's author Milton's adult debut creates a mystical world in which the secret to a missing child may be locked in the subconscious of a leading suspect. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

CALL ME GORGEOUS! by Giles Milton
ANIMALS
Released: Nov. 1, 2009

"The endpapers hold full images of each of the 11 animals whose parts make up our winged, beaked, antlered and spiny Gorgeous. (Picture book. 5-8)"
The creature that inhabits these pages (the ending tag line is the title) is gorgeous indeed, and it is displayed in an inventive piece of bookmaking. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

PEEK-A BOO! by Nina Laden
by Nina Laden, illustrated by Nina Laden
CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 18, 2015

"A good-enough choice for parents and teachers to use to get the youngest goblins excited about many adults' favorite holiday while introducing sophisticated, though still one-syllable, vocabulary. (Board book. 1-3)"
Laden puts a Halloween spin on her successful wordplay board books, Peek-a-Who? (2000) and Peek-a-Zoo! (2014). Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

BELOW by Nina Crews
by Nina Crews, photographed by Nina Crews
ADVENTURE
Released: April 1, 2006

"Alternating views of Jack on the white, brightly lit steps above with Guy suspended in near darkness below, Crews expertly captures the mini-episode's drama, as well as the inexhaustible possibilities of stairs as playscapes. (Picture book. 5-7)"
Using a mix of manipulated photography and line drawing, Crews places a lad with a wooden toy companion on a painted staircase next to a small, enticing hole. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

ROMEOW AND DROOLIET by Nina Laden
ANIMALS
Released: May 1, 2005

"Readers fond of Mary Jane Auch's equally clever animal send-ups, from Poultrygeist (2003) on, will be rolling in the aisles. (Picture book. 7-9)"
With "a wag of the tail to Shakespeare," Laden recasts the star-crossed lovers as house pets—albeit in a mix of modern and Renaissance courtly dress in the dashing, canted-perspective illustrations. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

PEEK-A-ZOO! by Nina Laden
by Nina Laden, illustrated by Nina Laden
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 4, 2014

"While the first book executed this gimmick more successfully (there are only so many words that rhyme with 'Boo'), this companion title is a welcome pairing. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)"
The follow-up to the long-lived and much-loved Peek-a-Who? (2000) is finally here. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

SKY-HIGH GUY by Nina Crews
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 13, 2010

"The spare text hits just the right notes, and, along with the full-bleed photos of regular (and adorable) kids in a regular (and lushly leafy) backyard, captures the childhood thrill of believing, if only for a while, that poor, steadfast Guy might really be in terrible danger and that only boy heroes could ever save the day. (Picture book. 4-6)"
In this winning companion to Below (2006), Crews tells a simple story-in-photographs of two brothers, Jack and Gus, and their serene action figure, Guy, who's amenable to any kind of adventure from dinosaur hunting (on the bookshelf between Seabiscuit and Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) to saving the city from destruction to ("Oh, no!") getting caught in a backyard tree while skydiving. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

I'LL CATCH THE MOON by Nina Crews
FICTION
Released: May 1, 1996

"In style and setting, this book is virtually a repeat of Crews's One Hot Summer Day (1995), but its star-drenched, dreamlike mood gives it a totally different emotional content. (Picture book. 4+)"
A girl's wish to build a ladder from her New York City apartment to the moon is vividly brought to life through ingenious photo-collages. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

CLOWNS ON VACATION by Nina Laden
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2001

"Ladeeeeez and Gentlemen: better sit down, before you fall down laughing. (Picture book. 6-8)"
What do clowns do to unwind? Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

ONE HOT SUMMER DAY by Nina Crews
FICTION
Released: May 1, 1995

"The first-person narration is simple, written in a colloquial present-tense, and progresses with the pictures to the dramatic, cooling storm. (Picture book. 2+)"
The debut of a welcome new voice and vision, in photographs of a steamy summer cityscape and remembrances of the hottest of days. Read full book review >
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/search/?q=Nina%20Milton;t=author
www.kirkusreviews.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-47
103835
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:7L6T7MRRQRXHHW5AUFWTCZ75BODF4UO5
<urn:uuid:60b7e1b1-9932-44ca-9199-47a08c99506c>
2017-11-19T16:34:30Z
52.205.127.51
text/html
sha1:E3OZITUVFJSCR4NZUN2YEHMW2ZHY2R2U
<urn:uuid:356bc567-9024-4337-9f33-721149359d7f>
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/search/?q=Nina%20Milton;t=author
length
response
<urn:uuid:1dd18504-05b9-42d4-be47-e21f304930e2>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-164-5-214.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-47
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf