Elf Dog and Owl Head

Simply NO ONE is doing it like MT Anderson!! All of his books are so different from each other in terms of content/genre and yet they are all so good. Fuck. What the fuck. How is he doing it. This book is a fun fantasy and a painful but moving look back at early COVID quarantine days. It's a coming......more

Strange and whimsical, the story of a boy who finds a hunting hound of the fairy folk who live under the mountain. It's a pandemic story, with the boy and his family worried about getting the virus, about the loss of income when the mom's job is closed down, about the struggle of doing school online......more

Three stars, and I believe I'm being generous. This started off with a promising opening premise. A family, struggling financially but getting by, is dealing with the COVID era. We have mom, dad, a chirpy pre-teen female (Juniper), a sulky teen female, and a bored but curious mid-teen male - Clay, th......more

Adored this book! The narrator was fantastic and also performed multiple voices for the different characters. This book gave Over the Garden Wall vibes but not as creepy/eerie. I was completely enveloped into the beautiful descriptions M.T. Anderson laid out. I felt like I was in the magical forest......more

Clay is tired of being stuck at home during the pandemic, tired of online school, and tired of being trapped in the house with his annoying family. He goes out exploring the woods behind his home and he encounters an elf-hound who has gotten separated from the elven hunt. The elves have all gone bac......more