The Book Plank

Media Alert: Rebecca Newton and the War of the Gods Finally I may share this amazing book trailer for Mario Routi's final book in his Rebecca Newton series. Enjoy!  more information: Rebecca and her family face their greatest challenge yet in this epic battle between good and evil. It all ends here! The Forces of Evil are poised to invade not only the Land of the White Sun, but also the Elysian Fields, home of the Gods – and now they have the power to throw human civilisation back into the Dark Ages.  Princess Rebecca  and her family  face  monumental battles in their attempts to defeat the massed forces of Evil, and the only way she can save mankind is by revealing herself to them. Her daughter, t he young Oracle Leylah,  falls in love with Prince Alexander, grandson of Hercules, but soon things are going very wrong between them. The fate of the entire universe rests on confused Leylah’s shoulders, as she travels with Ale...

Media Alert: Rebecca Newton and the War of the Gods Rebecca and her family face their greatest challenge yet in this epic battle between good and evil. It all ends here! The Forces of Evil are poised to invade not only the Land of the White Sun, but also the Elysian Fields, home of the Gods – and now they have the power to throw human civilisation back into the Dark Ages. Princess Rebecca and her family face monumental battles in their attempts to defeat the massed forces of Evil, and the only way she can save mankind is by revealing herself to them. Her daughter, t he young Oracle Leylah, falls in love with Prince Alexander, grandson of Hercules, but soon things are going very wrong between them. The fate of the entire universe rests on confused Leylah’s shoulders, as she travels with Alexander to planet Earth to learn to control her powers. While the forces of Evil prepar e to invade from Tartarus , Zeus gather s the Gods and ancient Heroes to defend the Sacred...

Pierre the Maze Detective: The Search for the Stolen Stone   by Hiro Kamigaki and IC4De\ESIGN Pierre the Maze Detective has a new case. Mr X has stolen the Maze Stone, which has the power to turn the whole of Opera City into a maze. Can you help Pierre and his friend Carmen find their way through the mazes – and stop Mr X before it's too late? Who hasn't grown up with Where is Waldo? I spend hours and hours just searching for that guy. Well in Japan they now have something different. Pierre the Maze Detective. As with Horrorgami, an arts and crafts book that MidasPR send me for review and which is also published by Laurence King publishing, Pierre the Maze Detective  isn't a book that I would normally review, since I normally stick to fiction. But when I am confronted with such a book I cannot say no. I love to puzzle and when you like it as much as I do Pierre the Maze Detective is right up your alley.  Now besides being a puzzle book, the name Maze Detective shoul...

Horrorgami by Marc Hagan-Guirey Paper Dandy's Horrorgami features 20 kirigami (cut-and-fold) designs based around haunted houses and scenes from horror films by the creator of the successful Horrorgami blog and exhibition. Each project features step-by-step instructions and a template that you remove from the book. You then follow the lines on the template, cutting and folding to make your own kirigami model.  The art of paper folding is very popular in the Asian countries but this doesn't mean that us Europeans never heard of it. I have done some basic origami before which I enjoyed a lot. you can make beautiful things with it. Just earlier this month I was asked by Midas PR if I wanted to review the upcoming book Horrorgami . Just by the cover alone I wanted to do some folding, doesn't that werewolf look sweet! Ok so this review doesn't begin with the story picks up with.. because this isn't a fictional story. To be honest this is also the first book of it...