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The Spider-Verse Unfolds, a durable, pop-up style book for Miles Morales

When is a pop-up book not a pop-up book? We love high-quality, intricate pop-up books but readily acknowledge that their complexity paired with their price point makes them an unrealistic option for younger, unsupervised audiences. An Abrams Unfolds Books is a series from Abrams Books for Young Readers that takes the pop-up elements that attract pre-k audiences and puts them in a package that’s durable and less likely to get destroyed. The Spider-Verse Unfolds is the second book in the series and visits Miles Morales, as well as, some others from his spider-centric world.

The Spider-Verse Unfolds is an accordion-style pop-up book for pre-k kids and older to dive into the world of Miles Morales, Spider-Man.
It’s a pop-up book of sorts, in a unique way through the Spider-Verse

MerryTale, A Christmas Adventure allows the holiday to pop for pre-K and up

If SpookyTale is the sister to MerryTale, then their father is Christopher Franceschelli. Both of them are board books in the Abrams Trail Tale series. They are also much more than just a seasonal book with pages thick enough for little hands to easily turn. Board books have a special place with pre-k kids because they’re something that they can engage in without any oversight from an adult. It’s something that they won’t break, or get hassled about doing and will even help them in the long run.

MerryTale: A Christmas Adventure continues the Abrams Trail Tale board book series that gives the medium a punch up.
A board book for those who are aging out of the medium

Van Dog, illustrated artistic madness that runs with energy and mirth

When most elementary-aged children are shown Van Dog, they won’t understand it. Heck, I’m decades older than an elementary student and I’m 100% confident that I don’t understand every inference, cultural nod, or artist’s reference in Van Dog. The obvious fact that the painting dog is certainly supposed to be a canine representation of Van Gogh, I got that one. After that, it’s up for grabs, but the one takeaway that every reader will walk away with; is that Van Gogh is a big, colorful, mostly-wordless, illustrated book that’s loaded with infectious energy.

Van Dog is one of the smartest, most immersive, introspective, yet seemingly simply seek-and-find books that you’ll see.
A seek and find, yes, but oh so much more

Stinetinglers, short stories that scare in just the right way

We’ve read a couple of age-appropriate scary books lately. And while we enjoyed them to an extent they all felt like it was paying homage to something else, now here’s the interesting part. We have never read a Goosebumps book. The series came on the scene too late for us to read as its intended audience and since a new one hasn’t popped up on our radar, they’re Greek to us. Stinetinglers is from R.L. Stine and sparkles the way that I imagine some people view his more well-known publications.

Stinetinglers is a collection of 10 new short stories by R.L. Stine that’s on the right side of scary for ages eight and up.
THis is the start of a beautiful relationship

Raised on the 80s, life lessons from that decade of cinema, music and more

Somewhere between John Hughes, Aztec Camera, a business/self-help book and The Tao of Pooh lies Raised on the 80s.  30+ Unexpected Life Lessons is the main subtitle to the book and when you combine the two of them it provides a nice overview of the book. The family and I are going through the classic 80’s movies now, some of them we’ve seen before and others are being viewed for the first time. Raised on the 80s is a comprehensive look as movies, music, and culture that happened in the 80s, combining real-life stories from Chris Clews, and then give it some gas to make it relevant to today’s culture.

Raised on the 80s, a more comprehensive than you’re expecting dig into 80’s culture and lessons that we can apply today.
80s trivia, with life lessons and deep dive stories from the decade that didn’t care

The Underground Abductor Bigger & Badder Edition is also better

How do you make the already good, even better? That beautiful bacon, spinach, and garlic pizza is great when it’s small, but when you make it a medium or large and it reaches a new level. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, The Underground Abductor-An Abolitionist Tale was good, but the Bigger & Badder Edition is just that. All of the books in the Hazardous Tales graphic novel series that we’ve read have been entertaining and educational to some degree. Ironically, it was their initial size always left us wanting more. Imagine seeing a painted or drawn work of art that is great, but one whose small stature handicapped its enjoyment.

The Underground Abductor, Bigger & Badder Edition is the bigger version of the engaging and excellent non-fiction graphic novel by Nathan Hale.
It’s ok to not know everything, as long as you’re open to learning more…

Win a complete series of Explorer Academy, realistic fiction w/a STEM backbone

Explorer Academy is an ongoing mglit series that weaves in non-fiction globetrotting adventure travel, STEM smarts, and aspects of a family quest. Our protagonist, Cruz Coronado attends a prestigious school where 23 other kids from around the world study and learn the art of becoming explorers. It’s here where you can all but hear Miss Frizzle saying something motivational about questioning the process, outcome, or possibility as to how something can occur. I’ll be honest, I forget what she used to say, but it was a catchphrase that made her students reach further intellectually. I need a phrase like that for my students. The seventh book in the series is out and we’re hosting a giveaway for all of the Explorer Academy books. This giveaway ends soon, so double-time it on those responses.

Win a complete series of the Explorer Academy book series by Trudi Trueit, including The Forbidden Island.
A dande addition to your home (or school) Mglit library

More Reinhart magic in Marvel Super Heroes The Ultimate Pop-Up Book

Where did you go to school? How is it that you’re able to envision things in such a manner that they fold out into such a grandiose, artistic fashion? If I were able to chat with Matthew Reinhart those are only a couple of the questions that I’d ask him. Reinhart’s pop-up books defy logic. It’s obvious that they pop-up, and one might expect a book along those lines to come off of the page. What Reinhart creates is mind-blowing art that comes off of the pages 12’ high and has multiple elements. Marvel Super Heroes The Ultimate Pop-Up Book takes on the MCU and entertains, as well as educates in ways that’ll make this a coffee table book for the pop culture savvy.

Clever Marvel Super Heroes The Ultimate Pop-Up Book is by Matthew Reinhart, paper engineer extraordinaire and gives the MCU comics a 3D rendering. Publishing has a trio of My First Spanish board books that are smart enough for sixth or seventh grade, and young enough for crawlers.
a LABRYNTH OF A GOOD TIME FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO
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