Children's book reviews, all age comic books, Kidlit, mglit, movies, entertainment and parenting
Dragon Con is an institution Labor Day weekends. It’s more than an Atlanta thing. Each Labor Day tens of thousands of science fiction & comic fans, zombies, Whovians, Disneyites, Trekkies and more gather in Atlanta. For Dragon Con 2014 over 62,000 fans packed the downtown Atlanta area for all lots of shows, seminars and of course the Dragon Con Parade. (more photos after the jump)
Our criteria for a great bed time story is that it’s simple enough for kids to read, or have assistance reading and be read multiple times without annoying the parent. Little Elliot, Big City is a good example of this description. It’s the simple story about an elephant that doesn’t quite fit in, until he finds someone else who doesn’t quite fit in. We’re part of the Little Elliot, Big City Blog Tour and had the chance to pose some questions to its author, Mike Curato.
Continue reading Come jump on the Little Elliot, Big City Blog Tour
This is sponsored by Frito-Lay, all opinions are my own. Those parents with pre-school children have a two week delay before mother’s morning out or pre-K starts. We’re choosing to take this as a blessing because it allows more time with our two small children who will never be this size again. On this day we packed up loads of Frito-Lay snacks and went park hopping. On the docket today is a new park and an established one that we visit regularly.
Continue reading Taking the kids out for a pre-school picnic with @FritoLay #Ad
Kang & Kodos, the space aliens from The Simpsons are two of our favorite characters from the show. They’re the animated, alien equivalent of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets. Two sets of characters that both have great one liners, are sometimes present, but haven’t gone too far in regular episodes. Because of that, The Simpsons have always used Kang & Kodos sparingly and usually on the Halloween episode. Their first solo shot in comics is appropriately called Kang & Kodos and is very rewarding for fans of the show.
Continue reading Kang & Kodos! finally have their one-shot on Bongo Comics
Hero Cats of Stellar City is the story of 6 cats with super hero powers. All of them can read and communicate, but some of them can build robots, read minds or have other super powers. You’re not into cats so this all age’s comic isn’t for you or your children? Don’t worry because it turns out that Stellar City also have a couple of humans with super powers, in addition to some baddies that will come forth in future issues.
Continue reading Hero Cats of Stellar City #1-all ages comic that isn’t all cats
We do love some building block sets. KRE-O has a bunch of new sets that are themed around Transformers. One of the new sets aimed at younger children is the Age of Extinction Grimlock Street Attack Set. It features Grimlock, a break-away Chinese gate, one gold knight Optimus Prime Kreon and two Vehicon Kreons.
Continue reading KRE-O Transformers Age of Extinction Grimlock Street Attack Set review
In the past 3 years I’ve dropped my smartphone twice. Unfortunately both of those times were in the past 6 months and in both cases the screen shattered like the heart of a lovelorn teenager. Both times the screen was replaced and now I have a much higher quality casing to protect it. If you have an iPad then you need to get in on this giveaway for an Impact Folio Case by Tech 21.
Continue reading Protect your tech, win an Impact Folio Case by Tech 21
Before I was a husband and dad I was a college student. It was during that time that learned every house must, without fail have a water key. This really isn’t a DIY per se, rather two stories that illustrate how important a water key is, even though you may never use it.
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