Children's book reviews, all age comic books, Kidlit, mglit, movies, entertainment and parenting
And here I thought Athena was the only Greek Goddess. As previously mentioned I don’t know much about the Greek gods. Young readers or those who simply enjoy an entertaining graphic novel will like Tales of Great Goddesses: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and War. It’s from Imogen and Isabel Greenberg and details the Goddess of Wisdom as she helps Athens, learns to fear spiders, conceives the Trojan Horse, and more adventures.
For my James Bond fans, imagine showing someone who has never seen a 007 film Skyfall, and then showing them from the campier Roger Moore era movies. The difference in those films is vast, some people enjoy both equally, while others see one as being a better movie than the other. That sums up Black Widow when compared to other action films or MCU movies. This is a movie that would’ve felt more at home if it were released in 2018. That schedule would’ve also allowed audiences to forgive the numerous flaws that live within the film. However, it’s been ages since we’ve been to the movie theater so let’s all go, unless it’s available on Disney + in a couple of weeks for no extra charge.
Life is all about expectations, isn’t it? Having heard that that Space Jam: A New Legacy was an abomination and the worst thing since sliced rotten bread I was prepared to be complacent in a Warner Bros. train wreck. However, Space Jam: A New Legacy firmly had the pulse of kids aged six through nine in its advertising, so I gamely took our youngest to the theater to see it. Don’t get me wrong, the film is a complete hot mess that attempts to mash up every single Warner Bros IP into a package that will entertain everyone. The result is that there are a couple of funny jokes amid countless movie scenes, puns, or characters that younger audiences won’t get or appreciate.
How are you doing? Have you been staying active and healthy? If you have healthy habits and are eating clean, chances are you have a lot of energy—but what if you don’t?
It must be tempting to take a long-running show, especially an animated one, and make a movie or two from it. The potential profits can certainly be greater, but the work in making, at the minimum, a 90-minute movie is daunting. From the studio’s perspective, if the show has been on the air for a decade or so then audiences, especially those younger ones will forgive an hour and a half that’s subpar. While it might be a slog for parents, they should know better and simply allow the kids to experience some ‘big kid’ time as they see said film for themselves. That’s the way that audiences should look at The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run. Those in the audience who are six to eight years old will be mildly amused and those who are nine and up will find a couple of things to laugh at but will be bored overall.
Book design is an under-appreciated art. And to be fair, books, especially illustrated books, work just fine the way that the vast majority of them are laid out. It’s only when a book comes along that shatters the established mold that you realize how efficiently, and creatively a book can become. North Pole/South Pole: Pole to Pole: A Flip Book is one of those books. The key to its fun is in the flipbook, phrase. If the book weren’t accompanied with illustrations that are on point and text that’s informative and to the point, then that phrase could also have been a cheesy gimmick.
The result is an engaging illustrated book that utilizes every square inch of every page with its text and illustrations. Moreover, it’s a non-fiction book that loosely tells a story and concisely wraps it all up. The twist that makes the book unique is also head numbingly simple, yet could also be difficult to pair up with the yin to its yang.
Losing a pet is one of the hardest things that some people will ever cope with. To most people, pets are family members, and losing one is just like losing one of your close family members. It can truly feel like losing a child to some. Having worked in the humane society world for years I know all about the joys, frustration, and pain that our animals bring us. Pets are there for you when others are not. That pet may have been their only true companion. The fact that these pets were always there for them may have made them more valuable to them than their human friends on a daily basis and in moments of crisis. The deep sense of grief experienced by some pet owners is beyond what many other people understand. The depth of the emotional pain we experience after any loss is directly related to the power of that relationship in our lives. It is difficult to imagine how painful the grief of the loss of this companion is to the griever if we have never had a similar attachment to an animal. If a close friend of yours (or a family member) has recently lost a pet, there are ways that you can help them get through this stressful and emotional time for them. Here are a few ways to help a friend through the loss of a pet:
The movies are back baby! Bit by bit, and with each new release seeming to beget a bigger slice of the ‘normal’ life that we all loved back in 2019. Space Jam: A New Legacy is coming to movie theaters on Friday, July 16. Daddy Mojo is pleased to give away 5 four-packs of tickets to the Atlanta sneak preview of Space Jam: A New Legacy when it airs for the first time on July 13.
This sneak preview of Space Jam: A New Legacy will be at 7:00 PM on July 13. Our giveaway for one of the 4-packs of tickets will end at 7:00 PM on July 9. All you have to do in order to enter is to leave a comment in this post. We love for things to be simple and nothing is easier than leaving a blurb in the comment section for this post.
Yeehaw, Movies are back, catch the sneak of Space Jam: A New Legacy in Atlanta
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