Howton's Hidden Corner Posts

Hatter Madigan is the orphaned son of two of the greatest Milliners who ever lived in Wonderland, the younger brother to the Queen’s new official bodyguard, and is well known by all the professors because he already lives at the Millinery Academy, where those born to protect the queendom train to become spies, assassins, and bodyguards. However, this is the year when everything changes. This is the year when Hatter becomes a cadet. When he begins to train to become a milliner, and has to fight to hide his seemingly endless range of emotions that he always seems to wear on his sleeve. He excels and struggles with classes on the history of Wonderland, the properties of caterpillar silk and how it can be manipulated to imbue weapons, clothing, etc. with special power, and the new addition, the H.A.T.B.O.X. (Holographic and Transmutative Base of Xtremecombat).  When strange things start happening around the Academy, Hatter is caught in between being the best cadet he can be and doing what he thinks is right.  This first novel in the Hatter Madigan series is sure to impress readers who are looking for adventure!

Most of my reading time for the past couple of months has been with my daughter, reading picture books.  We have immersed ourselves in Olivia, The Little Blue Truck, Giraffes Can’t Dance, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Are you My Mother?, There’s a Monster at the End of This Book and other wonderful stories.  While they certainly aren’t hard to read and definitely don’t take a lot of time, it has been fun going back to my childhood memories through books! Maybe you would enjoy looking back through books you read as a child and reliving memories. I am about to start forcing myself to stay up a little longer at night in order to read more Juvenile and YA things, so keep coming back!