Welcome Nightlight Readers


Welcome to Nightlight Reader Reviews. Many of you who are reading this may have already been reading my original blog, Night Reader Reviews and I thank you for transitioning to my new blog as well. Night Reader Reviews is still active but I am changing it to focus on adult books, Nightlight Reader Reviews is going to focus more on children's books. Many of these will be books that are a bit older that I have read to my own children or newer books that I have been asked to review. 

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