Tag Archives: Time Rose Book 2: The Mud Rose
BLATANT SELF-PROMOTION: UPDATED AUTHOR WEBSITE
I am technically challenged but, thanks to my son, my author website has been updated. With Christmas coming up, kids who love history, and also love to read (and/or be read to) might be interested in my time travel series. Visit this site to learn more about me and my books. https://www.renee-duke.com/ Adults have been […]
HISTORY SHARE: THAT JACK THE RIPPER ‘GUY’
England’s Bonfire Night guys tend to reflect their times. The one pictured is typical of a man of the 1950s, but when Jack the Ripper was plying his trade back in the late 1880s, some of the Guy Fawkes effigies being paraded around were made to look like the public’s supposed image of the person […]
MAKING HISTORY FUN: ‘HISTORIC’ POSTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The above poster didn’t really appear on walls and trees back in the fifteenth century, and the fleeing urchin article wasn’t really in any of the London newspapers back in Victorian Times, but kids can have fun this summer creating ‘historical’ posters, newspapers, and other documents. The ones featured relate to […]
BLATANT SELF-PROMOTION: RE-RELEASE OF TIME ROSE BOOKS 1 AND 2
The first two books in my middle grade time travel series have been re-released, this time by my new publisher, Books We Love. Check out http://mgddasef.blogspot.ca/ for an interesting conversation between one of my Mud Rose characters and the lead character in Marva Dasef’s Tales Of A Texas Boy. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E3A0RU/
2014 CRITTERS PREDITOR AND EDITOR READER’S POLL
The Mud Rose (Book Two of my Time Rose series) placed sixth in its category the recent 2014 Preditor & Editor’s Reader’s Poll. Last year, its predecessor, The Disappearing Rose, also made the top ten.
BOOK REVIEW: THE MUD ROSE
Book Review by Marva Dasef: U.S.A. This is the second book in Renee Duke’s Rose series about time-traveling kids making right the wrongs of the past. The first in the series involved the two princes in the Tower of London. They mystery is whether they were murdered by Richard III or did something else happen? […]
BOOK GIVEAWAY AT THE CELLOPHANE QUEEN
I’m away today, guest blogging with the Cellophane Queen, Marva Dasef, to promote The Mud Rose, the second book in my Time Rose series. Visitors to the site have a chance to win a free copy. All you have to do is speculate on the identity of Jack the Ripper. http://mgddasef.blogspot.ca/
TOP TEN BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK PLACEMENT 2013
The Disappearing Rose (the first book in my Time Rose series) didn’t win a recent contest it was entered in, but did make it into the top ten. Below: One of the reviews that appeared on Amazon & Goodreads shortly after its release in August, 2013. Leslie McCawley: Sydney, NSW, Australia I love how […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: FROST FAIRS
My Mud Rose characters, Hetty and Pip plied their trade year round. Mudlarking was an especially cold business to be in during the winter, but at least by their time, London’s River Thames was no longer freezing over. Before the old medieval London Bridge was torn down in 1831, ice did sometimes manage to form […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: MUDLARKS
Since the second book in my Time Rose series has my young time travellers visiting Victorian times, my next few posts will have connections to the Victorian era. The first is about mudlarks. London’s River Thames is a tidal river. Many objects can be found in the mud left behind when the waters recede each […]
Time Travelling With Kids 