Children's book reviews, all age comic books, Kidlit, mglit, movies, entertainment and parenting
Before the other day I didn’t have an opinion about guns in school. The day actor Vince Vaughn came out in support of guns, but I haven’t cared or modeled my opinions based on what celebrities think since high school. However, that same day I was in a school lock down. It wasn’t a drill, the threat was valid and I got to see it all happen.
Continue reading Vince Vaughn is wrong, but not for the reason you think
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At first glance, Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day could be confusing to some readers. It’s a graphic novel with the word graphic in the title of the book about the history of D-Day. This graphic novel is historically accurate, so everything in the book is true and has realistic art accompanying the narrative. Author and illustrator Wayne Vansant has been drawing realistic war comics for years and has a series of graphic novels to help teach key points in the history of the United States military.
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Oh what a week. This week for new all age comic books sees one that I’ve been waiting months for, the last as we know it, two new all age titles, some classics, one that makes us laugh out loud just by the cover and a new summer cross over worth checking out.
Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians is one that I’ve been waiting for since I heard about it. It’s wordless and features some dinosaur violence, so it might be too young for the really small kids, but our 5 year old will love this. And the art, on my, the previews I’ve seen for this are gorgeous and really put the art in comic book.
Archie is about to end. It’s issue 666 and number one, with entirely new drawings are coming. DC has two new all age comics, Bizarro and Bat Mite both start their six issue run and DC also has Looney Tunes #225 out also. Simpsons Illustrated is great for non-regular readers of Simpsons Comics, Mickey Mouse #1 comes out and Regular Show #24 simply makes us laugh by the cover. Our five year old also wants the new My Little Pony.
Continue reading New all age comic books for Wednesday, June 3, 2015
When we first moved into our house the neighbor came over with his daughter. “She has two conversations, dog and horse” he said of his then 7 year old. The Legend of Longwood is the film that she would’ve loved at that age and still would like at her current age of 12. It’s the story of a 12 year old girl that moves from New York to Ireland, love horses and fights to save a herd of them from a scheming adult who is not marrying for love.
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Last week I was riding the train and I was reminded of something that happened more than a dozen years ago. It involved a friend of mine who had kids when I was still at the stage of cleaning out the house with a leaf blower. The train experience and that instance are both great examples of why parents should listen to kindie.
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Our second day at MomoCon started early because we wanted to catch as many great photos as possible. The Saturday crowds at MomoCon are much bigger than the Friday ones, which only make sense. With the people came the costumes and they were everywhere! As we stated in our overview of MomoCon, they were all family friendly and we saw people of all ages dressed up to varying degrees. MomoCon 2014 had 38,000 attending and by the crowds I saw the 2015 version will easily surpass that number.
Random observations from our time on the floor. It was great to see a millennial score 2.5 million on the Doctor Who pinball machine. The volunteer staff was extremely helpful with questions of all sort. The break-outs were all very informative, but an information card with who is presenting would be nice so that we can tweet them. If you need a costume-ask anyone and they know someone who can make you anything.
There are lots of night time MomoCon activities too. The program for the event is very clear to point out that these activities are more adult oriented and not meant for kids under 18. Case in point there was a rave last night that went on until 4AM.
The second day of MomoCon also brought out more older cosplay. There were still hundreds of younger cosplayers, but the college age crowd was obviously there for some serious cosplay and fun today.
MomoCon 2016 has been announced and is May 26-29th, that’s Memorial Day Weekend at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
MomoCon for 2015 is May 28-31rst, we went today with the kids and it was absolutely amazing. First off, it really is family friendly. I understand the hesitancy that some parents have about going to a con because the costumes are too sexy or scary. MomoCon has just enough edge to be cool for the kid while allowing the younger generation to role play, dress up and enjoy the finer things in pop culture.
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