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The Avengers in The Veracity Trap, a great self-aware, multi-verse story

This is a great comic book that I forgot I had read before, it’s what you might be thinking as you’re digging into The Avengers in The Veracity Trap!. The heroes on the book’s cover have their classic 60’s era appearance. Hulk’s pants are a deep-hued purple. Captain America has his wings on his cowl, evident for everyone to see. Iron Man’s mask is obvious, not melding into his suit and its colors are a very pure yellow and red. But the book’s format is larger than most graphic novels and the story breaks the fourth wall. This is an original graphic novel that old-school comic fans will embrace. It will also give next-generation fans a glimpse at seeing why these comics were so awesome, without worrying about damaging those golden age gems.

The Avengers in The Veracity Trap is a new graphic novel with a multi-verse tale and one you will want to read.

IT’s a throwback spirit in a modern day package, built to love to read

Howdy! Welcome to the Grand Ole Opry gives to the place past its fanbase

In 2023 I saw Crowded House at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. I didn’t know anything about the venue or its historical significance. I simply knew it was the first time they had toured in a decade and that this was the closest stop to me. Once you get to downtown Nashville the history and pedigree of that venue casts a long shadow. Howdy! Welcome to the Grand Ole Opry! Is an illustrated book that’s as much a love letter to live entertainment, as it is to country music and the physical entity where that great band from New Zealand played.

Howdy! Welcome to the Grand Ole Opry is an illustrated book that uses mixed media and short text to be effortlessly entertaining

Holla! YEE Haw! Hee Haw! Fun Reading come hither

Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales! Troubling Tonsils!, chapter book fun ages 6-9

How do you make an excellent pizza even better, or at least maintain the same level of quality at a different location? Jasper Rabbit has that issue. The three illustrated book in Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales had they problem when they were initially released, but more on that in a moment. Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales! Troubling Tonsils! has the same spirit as those now classic illustrated books, but ups the demographic. This is a chapter book aimed at those early elementary age students who were, just yesterday laughing at Creepy Carrots! or Creepy Pair of Underwear! Can Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown corroborate on a chapter book as cohesively as they did previously?

Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales! Troubling Tonsils! is the first in a series of fun chapter books that continues the young creepies for ages 6-9.

You will want to become seven years old again…just to read this for the first time

The Moment is Special: A Dia de Muertos Story is holiday magic 411

For people of a certain generation, Coco emblazoned The Day of the Dead and its significance to Mexican people and those of Latino heritage. In addition to being a fabulously told story, it’s a well-made movie and introduced a large about of people to the customs behind the holiday. This Moment is Special: A Dia de Muestros Story is an illustrated book that channels the same spirit and has a twist.

This Moment is Special: A Dia de Muertos Story serves as a primer for The Day of the Dead, as well as, an enjoyable standalone book.

The Day of the dead is more remembrance, than spooky

Frankenstein and the art of high school under-achievement

For the better part of a year I’ve been teaching high school literature. For non-teachers, people who teach literature have access to large closets of books from which to choose for their classes. Sometimes they can dig into engaging books of their choosing, and other times the departments might decide on The Crucible. It’s like the wardrobe from Narnia, but it leads to a kingdom of knowledge or pain, depending on your perspective. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is in those closets. Realistically, it’s almost certainly reserved for the AP classes. However, somewhere I like to think there’s a rogue literature class, probably helmed by Mr. Escalante from Stand and Deliver. They’re being rewarded by the patient, well-told dread and gothic stench that also has romantic sensibilities.

Today’s high school kids stand a better chance at levitating off of the ground, than reading Frankenstein and understanding it.

Teacher rant in 3, 2, 1…

A Home for Felix uses dreamy art and an open story to its benefit

A publisher does not a good book make. However, there are some book publishers who are so consistent in their ability that it primes the pump for your expectations. Tra Publishing is one like that. Their books have an odd, slightly unfamiliar feeling about them, but not too much that it’s incomprehensible to its young audiences. A Home for Felix is familiar, but strange, with big, dreamy illustrations that will make early readers happy and keep the older people reading it entertained.

A Home for Felix has dreamy art, concise words and a timeless story that crosses boarders to charm illustrated book audiences.

Order up, one awesome book, order up.

The Rise of Neptune, has action and imagination for young readers

It’s a great thing when you can jump into the second entry in a book series and be entertained. It’s also quite rare. The Rise of Neptune is the second book in The Dragonships Series. It does something equally rare in middle-grade fiction, it makes you want to find the first book and read it so that you can connect the dots.

The Rise of Neptune is the second book in The Dragonships Series and proves that its predecessor laid the ground for a go-to mglit series.

It’s as good as it is pretty

Dark Fairy Tales, an entertaining collection of the evil in our global myths

Let’s be clear, Dark Fairy Tales is not in any way appropriate for children. This is not reverse psychology or some trick by educators to make you read something. Dark Fairy Tales is a collection of fairy tales from around the world that are set in areas where things go bump in the night. Do not confuse any of these stories with something that a child would read and be entertained by. Instead, think of something by Lovecraft, Clive Barker or Stephen King, condense it into a short narrative like a fairy tale, and you’re close to what’s in this book.

Dark Fairy Tales lives in the dark spaces of a worldwide collection of jinns and demons, closer to Evil Dead, than Disney.

This book is not for children, for reals