Sunday, May 27, 2018

Quoth Bellairsia: #TreasureOfAlpheusWinterborn

"I’ll take it and put it in the library fine box if you want me to."

Anthony Monday - The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Memoriam: Richard Peck

Author Richard Peck has died at the age of 84. 

Don't Look and It Won't Hurt (1972) was his first of 40 novels for young readers.  His writing earned him the 1990 Margaret Edwards Award, the 1990 National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young adult literature, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

His 1975 novel, The Ghost Belonged to Me, introduced readers to Blossom Culp who would go on to feature in four of Peck's novels.  Ghost was one of three stories included in Once Upon a Midnight Scary, the 1979 program hosted by Vincent Price that included, in addition to Peck's novel, adaptations of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The House with a Clock in its Walls.

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Quoth Bellairsia: #ChessmenOfDoom

"I have bushels of keys. If you want to know, I also save string."

Anna Louisa Thripp - The Chessmen of Doom

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Quoth Bellairsia: #BellTheBookAndTheSpellbinder

"D-Dr. Coote! Look at it—it’s still alive!"

Johnny Dixon - The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Quoth Bellairsia: #BeastUnderTheWizardsBridge

"I think it was a woodchuck."

Jonathan Barnavelt - The Beast under the Wizard’s Bridge