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Malinda Mitchell is married to her husband Alton, has four grown children, a fifteen-year-old son, and eight grandchildren. She has been writing fiction for all ages for more than forty years. Among her books and Amazon Shorts, Malinda was also published in the summer issue 2008 and spring and summer 2009 issues of Once Upon A Time Magazine, before they closed their doors. She also has stories published on www.more.com http://64.151.118.227/user/profile/7840. Malinda's most recent book is, Miss Sugar Crumb's Magic Kitchen. Watch for Miss Sugar Crumb's Cooking Lesson, with beautiful hand painted, color illustrations by Nora Tapp Franzese, soon to be released. Also watch for, Starville, a World of Magic, Love and Friendship, illustrated by Corey Colombin.

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Emerging from the long shadow cast by his formidable father, Harold Godwineson showed himself to be a worthy successor to the Earldom of Wessex. In the following twelve years, he became the King's most trusted advisor, practically taking the reins of government into his own hands. And on Edward the Confessor's death, Harold Godwineson mounted the throne—the first king of England not of royal blood. Yet Harold was only a man, and his rise in fortune was not blameless. Like any person aspiring to power, he made choices he wasn't particularly proud of. Unfortunately, those closest to him sometimes paid the price of his fame. This is a story of Godwine's family as told from the viewpoint of Harold and his younger brothers. Queen Editha, known for her Vita Ædwardi Regis, originally commissioned a work to memorialize the deeds of her family, but after the Conquest historians tell us she abandoned this project and concentrated on her husband, the less dangerous subject. In THE SONS OF GODWINE and FATAL RIVALRY, I am telling the story as it might have survived had she collected and passed on the memoirs of her tragic brothers. This book is part two of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Book one, GODWINE KINGMAKER, depicted the rise and fall of the first Earl of Wessex who came to power under Canute and rose to preeminence at the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Unfortunately, Godwine's misguided efforts to champion his eldest son Swegn recoiled on the whole family, contributing to their outlawry and Queen Editha's disgrace. Their exile only lasted one year and they returned victorious to London, though it was obvious that Harold's career was just beginning as his father's journey was coming to an end. Harold's siblings were all overshadowed by their famous brother; in their memoirs we see remarks tinged sometimes with admiration, sometimes with skepticism, and in Tostig's case, with jealousy. We see a Harold who is ambitious, self-assured, sometimes egocentric, imperfect, yet heroic. His own story is all about Harold, but his brothers see things a little differently. Throughout, their observations are purely subjective, and witnessing events through their eyes gives us an insider’s perspective. Harold was his mother's favorite, confident enough to rise above petty sibling rivalry but Tostig, next in line, was not so lucky. Harold would have been surprised by Tostig's vindictiveness, if he had ever given his brother a second thought. And that was the problem. Tostig's love/hate relationship with Harold would eventually destroy everything they worked for, leaving the country open to foreign conquest. This subplot comes to a crisis in book three of the series, FATAL RIVALRY.

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Book: Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen Author: Malinda Mitchell Publisher: Tex Ware, 2009 Illustrator: Nora Tapp Franzese ISBN-13: 978-1-935500-06-3 Related website: <a href="http://www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell">www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell</a> (author), <a href="http://www.tex-ware.com/">www.tex-ware.com</a> (publisher) Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable) Reading Level: ages 8-12 Rating: 5 stars (EXCELLENT) Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker Mitchell, Malinda. Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen (published in 2009 by Tex Ware, Everett, WA). Most fairy tales are set in some undetermined place and time, but what would it be like if a fairy tale was put in a modern setting? Miss Sugar Crumb lives in a little yellow house surrounded by a white picket fence out in the country. She likes to plant flowers, bake pies, feed the animals that live in the woods near her house, and visit her neighbors, Jake and Emma Colworth, who are childless but very much want a baby. But why was a rabbit able to talk with Miss Sugar Crumb and tell her that hunters were trespassing on her property and the Colworth’s property? And when she went to ask the Colworths to put up more “No Trespassing” signs on their property, why did the green and pink tea cup which she took with her and accidentally left suddenly have the faces of a little boy and a little girl on it? Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen is a charming, fairy-tale like story, that children will adore, but the characters are pictured by the striking illustrations from Nora Tapp Franzese in as modern a fashion as you or I would be, perhaps making it appear more relevant or applicable to our time. Miss Sugar Crumb seems initially to be unaware of the magic in her kitchen, but she likes helping the animals and doing good deeds for others. Maybe there is a metaphor here about how we may not always realize the sort of “magic” that we can work in the lives of people by our pleasant attitudes and acts of kindness. Miss Sugar Crumb certainly provides a positive role model for youngsters, and I can’t think of a better reason to read a book. Author Malinda Mitchell has given us a pearl.

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