Library of Souls (The final book in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children trilogy series)
picks up  right where Hollow City leaves off and it did not disappoint. Jacob and Emma narrowly escape the London destruction, managing to evade the hollowgast that's hot on their trail. Jacob gains more control over his special peculiarity.
 
In Library of souls, a complicated series of adventures takes the characters through one narrow escape after another. Jacob, Emma and Addison (the talking dog), have been taken further back in time than we've seen before: to the slums of Victorian London,  Devil's Acre, where the other brother of Miss Peregrine is introduced - Mr. Bentham (whose motives and actions are mysterious and questionable at all times) and strange loops to a medieval fortress and finally the Library of Souls.
 
In Library of souls, we finally learn some truths about why Caul and Bentham betrayed the peculiars.
People and peculiars are not always who they seem, and several unexpected twists lead to an epic battle in the Library of Souls. Good is bad and bad is good as the story twists and turns through loops, tunnels, turrets, sewage-laden canals, and fantastical rooms and worlds on its way to a final resolution and the final resolution of Jacob and Emma's story. 
 
I found the first book the most imaginative book of this series, I don't think the other two did top the experience of reading the first in the series. At the end of Hollow City, the second novel, I had become a little tired of the peculiar children always being on the run.
The final one, Library of Souls, despite I didn’t really liked the ending all in all I liked the story and the creativity, I really enjoyed reading it.

It took me a couple of years before I read the second  novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children. However the first novel made such an impact that the time in between was reduced to "nil", as if I had finished the first novel the day before.
Story:
Jacob, Emma, and the other "peculiar" kids  have escaped Miss Peregrine’s island and are outside their time loop.
They are on the run  from the "wights" and "hollows" in 1940s England. Along with them is their guardian and headmistress, Miss Peregrine, who's stuck in her bird form after being captured. Restoring her requires the aid of one of her fellow "ymbrynes," but they've all vanished but one. The time-and-space-hopping quest to heal Miss Peregrine takes the kids to London, the HOLLOW CITY. They get the help from other peculiars, also animals, which they meet on their way. 

For me the story had "ups and downs". It was too much running and bumping into the same situation over and over again. As if the world that was created, existed only of "peculiars" and "wights". The photo's didn't bring added value to the book in my opinion, maybe because the characters they sometimes represented didn't really "touched"me.
I liked the twist at the end. I knew there was something "wrong" when the bird (miss Peregrine) picked the pigeon to death but I wasn't expecting Caul, to turn out to be the bird they thought was Miss Peregrine. 
Although it lacked a bit the magic of the first book, I still like it and I am ready for the third novel "Library if Souls"  because  I want to know  how it all ends. ;-) 

A month ago I received the request to review this book.
​Based on a true story.
It's a touching story about an orphan, who is in search for  love and a family he can call his own. He is bullied by the other kids however Ronel never gives up on his dream. 
It's a beautiful story with a great ending not only for Ronel.
Despite the bullying Ronel has a great hard full of forgiveness and kindness towards those who teased him, knowing in his heart they seek for the same warmth and love.

The book opens a door on the forgotten world of orphanages.  Although in the Netherlands ‘orphanages” do not exist anymore, simply because we gave it another names, it doesn’t mean there aren’t any children searching for the same warmth and family love like Ronel does. There are so many children children world wide longing and hoping their world one day will change. We all could help by sharing Awareness for Orphanages and Anti- bullying. 
 
The book is worth reading / sharing​

(ge 10)
​​With the request to review the book I received following description: Butterfly Blink is a book without words. 
This wordless picture book fantasy helps kids cement vocabulary as they describe the action.
It’s a learning tool for children between 2 and 6.
 
The fact that it is about butterflies reminded me of my first “lecture” (age10) in primary school: butterflies! I love them.
My wedding ring is a butterfly ring and the inscription in my husbands ring reads: “Favola delle farfalle” which means: Fairytale of the butterflies. Last but not least one of my main characters in my storybooks is called: princess Butterfly
 
It tickled my curiosity to find out what story this book without words would reveal to me.
 
The illustrations are beautiful. I started without reading the synopsis. At first I could not find a story. I went over the book several times and finally the story appeared. The life of a butterfly (birth, life and death)
Taking into consideration the target group, unless someone reads the synopsis and explain it upfront, I don't think they can make a story out of it.


​For children of a very young age I have my doubts, even with explanation, I think the illustrations are too detailed for them too.
 
Never the less I find the book and the story it tells beautiful, maybe the author could consider it for a different age group. Providing a little more information about the butterfly / lifecycle, I’m sure the story will tell itself.

​Flexible wings is a story about Summer Stevenson an eleven-year-old military kid, who is not happy at all to move once again to a new city.
Summer is a mixed raced child which gives an extra dimension to the story; not only is she the new kid on the block, she is also “different”. That ‘s another obstacle when you try to make new friends. Her mom and dad are “the “heroes” and her dream of having a permanent home and long term friendships seems irrelevant to their chooses.
 
When Summer moves into her new home, she comes across a hummingbird.
She wonders "if their flexibility is what makes them able to be so quick and so fearless."
Summer has a passion for swimming, her goal is swimming in the Olympics one day.
Her career starts very weak but as the story goes on she becomes flexible, fearless, focused and eventually she learns to accept the drama and dread of being a military child.
 
When I received the request to read the book I was somehow reluctant; I live in a country where for good or wrong reasons being in the military is just seen as any other profession, there is nothing heroic about it. These people do their jobs and risk their lives for others, which I think; we take for granted too easy. So it made me reflect on that aspect as well as the emotional struggles any child faces when they have to move from city to city or even to another country. Either if it is for military purpose or simply because their parents have decided to go and work abroad and the whole family has to move along.
This book can help both parents and children to make the best of the situation and to help to understand both sides of the story.