These are books that kids will want to read-or should read, but will enjoy doing so. Board book, picture books, kid lit, elementary school books, middle school books, high school books, all age comic books and more will be talked about here.
In a more sensitive time Zombies Of The World would’ve had umpteen hundreds of people calling the police to warn about the hoards of approaching zombies. At times resembling the literary zombie equivalent to The War of The Worlds radio broadcast, this book is a realistic middle grade look at zombies. It’s also much more entertaining than you think it would be, especially for the passive zombie or undead enthusiast.
Mutts by Patrick McDonnell is that friend who you might not have seen in years. The two of you had excellent conversations. They were your ying to your yang. You really like chocolate and they really like peanut butter and it was never a problem if the two accidentally rubbed against one another. It’s the Snoopy to your Woodstock. Mutt, Hot Dogs, Hot Cats is a collected works of this classic comic strip that have been released in book form that’s as fabulous the first of fourteenth time that you read it.
Lloyd Finds His Whalesong by Skylaar Amann is an interesting illustrated book. From the moment that you pick it up the colors and illustrations make you smile. Lloyd is a young whale who is struggling to find his song amongst a pod of adult whales. If there’s no song then he can’t keep up and it’s a big ocean. Much like the tides, the book ebbs and flows, with Lloyd finding his voice, getting sidetracked by a noisy ship and hopefully finding the confidence to sing again so that he can find his people. As a children’s book it will meet the needs of whale kids or those who can focus on the art over the story.
Whale books-Get your whale booksAfter reading Super Soldiers, A Salute to the Comic Book Heroes and Villains Who Fought for Their Country by Jason Inman; I challenged myself to think of one superhero that didn’t have direct ties to their country’s military. I did come up with a couple like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Spider-Man. However, even in trying to think of them I could see some fan circles thinking that they were part of the military, either per their definition or by them assisting in dire times. That’s a topic for another book. Super Soldiers is a respectful, well researched book about a variety of superheroes, their relationship to the military and parallels that they have in common with real soldiers in the military.
Kids and haircuts go together like love and marriage. Now tweak the words a bit, put a Rat Pack crooner behind the singing and you’ve got the theme to Married With Children. Lion Needs A Haircut by author/illustrator Hyewon Yum is an illustrated book that looks at a father and son who have more than one thing in common. The story is one that parents to any child who is close to four years old will understand very well.
Georgia Dunn gets cats. She also gets people and the qualities that make us laugh at the anthropomorphic things cats will do. Take It Away, Tommy! is the fourth book in the Breaking Cat News Adventure series of books that shows people what our cats are probably thinking if their lives are akin to a news themed version of The Truman Show.
Epic! Originals is a book imprint line within Andrews McMeel Publishing. This imprint of books is worth mentioning because it nails to the floor how elementary aged kids think. Some of their books skew younger than Diary of a 5th Grade Outlaw. This series of books by Gina Loveless with illustrations by Andrea Bell has its second release, The Friend Thief out now and pull a bit of an Empire Strikes Back on its readers.
In theory, I know where the Boreal Forest is. For us it’s similar to The Isle of Man; both of which are such perfectly named places that they’d only exist in some middle earth novel or on the outskirts of my geography knowledge. In this case, The Boreal Forest, A Year in the World’s Largest Land Biome is a children’s illustrated book that effortlessly blends art and entertainment into a book that nature kids will relish and casual kidlit readers will enjoy.
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