Children's book reviews, all age comic books, Kidlit, mglit, movies, entertainment and parenting
The Incredible Three and a Half Superheroes, should in theory be a middle school book that I would love and highly recommend. It’s about superheroes, has loose happy drawings sprinkled throughout the book and has a playful vibe about it. And for a while it was all of those things, but then the book hit a couple four letter speed bumps and knocked the entire thing off course for us.
Continue reading The Incredible Three and a Half Superheroes, not super or OK for young kids
Recently I went to HH Gregg to participate in a Father’s Day promotion they had. The store had buckets of specials and dads were all but walking around the store with handfuls of bacon in celebration. We can now giveaway a $100 gift card to HH Gregg. And the good news is that they’ve still got oodles of specials, regardless of what you’re looking for need or simply want.
I’m a Rockport Shoes Ambassador and received product for this post. All thoughts are our own. For summer I wanted to try something different. And by different I mean for my wife. Granted guys need to have comfortable feet and look stylish during the summer also, but sometimes your wife takes priority. It was also quite serendipitous that our anniversary was coming up-Happy Anniversary sweetie! This giveaway is for a pair of Garden Court Perf Slide Sandals from Rockport will baby your feet (according to my wife).
Continue reading Win a new pair of Rockport Sandals, for the ladies
While the heat certainly makes summer challenging, there is so much to enjoy about this time of year. There is the pool, the beach and the movies. Have you seen Fury Road? That is the best action film that we’ve seen since The Raid. It is amazing. Inside Out is the (family) film that you have been waiting all year for. Minions, Jurassic, Max (not Mad, this is dog movie whose trailer made me cry and think of those quality coming-of-age films) , Rogue Nation and more.
It doesn’t have to be a family film with $100 from Fandango. You can take the family to a film, go see one that you’ve been itching to see, do a date night or take a group out for fun. The world is your oyster and this $100 gift card from Fandango will entertain you while you’re out enjoying it.
Patrick McDonnell is one of our favorite authors. He’s the guy behind Mutts, a comic strip (and countless books) that show the love, adventures and life of various domestic animals and the people that live with them. Mac Barnett is the author of one of our favorite books in recent memory, Battle Bunny. He also co-authored The Terrible Two, a very funny book for young readers that was recently green lit to become a movie. Combine the two of them in The Skunk and you won’t be disappointed.
Continue reading The Skunk smells wonderful and entertains all ages effortlessly
It’s the first official new comic book day of summer and it’s hot. Really, it’s been 90+ for the past 12 days and the extended forecast calls for the same. One grand way to beat that heat is to head out to your local comic book shop with the kids and dig on some all age comic books. There are also some cool graphic novels and hard cover books that we’re highlighting this week, plus one cool décor piece for the Doctor Who dads out there.
Futurama Comics #75 is always dependable, the new Mickey Mouse #1 comic comes out this week, a new story arc on Adventure Time starts this month, Skylanders, Donald Duck #2, Batman ’66 #24, Adventure Time #41 and others.
Fantagraphics has a couple hard cover books with old school Peanuts and Uncle Scrooge comics. Kids will also be interested in Dragons: Riders of Berk graphic novel. Netflix has a new original series Dragons: Race to the Edge that is supposedly very good and could spike interest in written content, so keep the aforementioned graphic novel on your radar.
The links will take you to Things From Another World and save you at least 20% on the titles. If you want to find you local comic book store just go here, find it and support small businesses.
Continue reading New All Age Comic Books for Wednesday, June 24, 2015
I partnered with Life of Dad and Michelin for this promotion. I have received compensation for my participation, but my first car memories are my own and I’m jealous of my 16YO self. My dad wanted me to be Steve McQueen. Granted he never actually told me that, nor have I seen my dad avidly watching his old movies, but he did. My first car was a 1968 white Ford Mustang. The year was 1984, Van Halen just released their classic album (ask your mom kids) and I was driving one of the coolest cars ever. That’s our #FirstCarMoment and while I don’t remember what tires were on it; I can say that our son’s first car won’t be as cool as mine, but it’ll darn sure have great quality tires.
Continue reading Steve McQueen, a Mustang, Charger and our #FirstCarMoment #ad
That’s a tricky question, what are you born to do? If you don’t change the world by the age of 25 have you failed? What if you don’t have as much stuff as your parents by the time that you’re a certain age? I’d guess that very few people really know what they’re born to do. For the most part they improvise, accept certain things, learn new tricks and hopefully love-or at least enjoy what they do in this life. Whatever stage of life you’re in it’s worth checking out #ImBornTo to learn about the March of Dimes and discover countless ways that you can support them and have probably been helped by them.
Continue reading Is this really what #ImBornToDo this Father’s Day? #spon
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