I'm running a little late this go around for the review. I've been fully engrossed with Armchair BEA and have loved every minute of it. For those that don't know, BEA (Book Expo America) has been going on this past week in New York City. Authors, publishing houses, and bloggers are all together enjoying the greatness of books!

Alrighty, let's get to the books! :-)

May has been a pretty good month for reading. I was able to knock out 7 books this month and it brings me down to 37 more to go for the year.









I did have a maybe...I loved the set up of the story and the idea of it, but the follow through, just wasn't all there for me.

All and all, it was a good month!

Title: Honor's Quest
Author: Kristen Heitzmann
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 292
ISBN: 0-7642-2033-0

I am continuing on my reading in to the Rocky Mountain Legacy with book #3, Honor's Quest. This is the book that solidified my liking of Kristen Heitzmann's writing style. Her first two books in the series were really good and I enjoyed them. Honor's Quest is enjoyable, but it isn't as light as the first two books.

Honor's Quest starts off with Monte and Abbie called off to Charleston. Monte's sister France has died and she wanted Monte and Abbie to take care of her daughter Jenny, since her husband Kendell died in Honor's Price.

A lot hard times are in store for Abbie and her family. When Monte and Abbie return from Charleston, Monte is faced with a finical crises, when during a harsh blizzard, a lot of his stock his killed, stock he was needing to get him and his family and the ranch stable. Plus, having lost a valuable piece of stock to Kendell in a sour deal in Honor's Price didn't help. Thankfully, not everything in the book is as dour as it appears, Abbie is pregnant and looking forward to her future with her growing family.

Happiness is shattered though when another tragedy strikes, the hardest blow that Abbie will ever have to face. Heartbreak and bitterness will become her only friends.

All of the original characters are back and we are introduced to a new group of friends as well. I love the depth that these characters have in this story. It flows and keeps you picking the book back up to see what else is going to happen. It's too read!

Wonderful news for all my fellow Outlander fans...Starz has requested an Oulander show. After months of waiting, it's been greenlighted!! It was announced at the BEA (Book Expo America). All the info is here! I'm so thrilled! I can't wait to see how it turns out and who will be cast.

What are your favorites? Why do you love children's literature?

Oh, goodness...this is going to be a long post for me!

I have so many favorites! And I have so many on my bookshelves. Almost all the books I had as a kid in the 80's have now been passed on to my little girl. These stories hold so many memories for me and now my kid is making memories and adding more for me. 

The reason I love children's literature is a little different then why I love YA. Children's literature (picture books and story books) always held excitement for me growing up. In preschool when I attended and then again when I taught, had those Scholastic book order forms and so did my elementary school. I could spend a whole afternoon looking through that slim catalog circling books I wanted. Then when I ordered, there was that excitement of getting something.

My top children's books are going to be hard to name, but I will try. :-)

Little Golden Books...there are just too many to name. And a lot of mine are marked with 0.89. Those were the days!
The Berenstain Bears by Stan and Jan Berenstain





 I'm still in children's books, but now up to chapter books. The ones that stand out here to me are not as numerous. This was the time in my life reading wasn't fun. It was hard for me and I didn't look forward to it. I have dyslexia,  it wasn't diagnosed till much later in my life. Here are the books, that impacted me, they took awhile to read at the time, but they hold a special place in my heart.

The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Cronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The American Girl Series: Molly by Valerie Tripp Kirsten by Janet Beeler Shaw


I will admit, that I didn't get in YA until a few years ago and I really liked it!

The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Series
Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth















I love children's and YA literature. I'm usually immersed in it from my kiddo's doing or that of my own. It's a fun genre!