Vanya and the Wild Hunt plays it safe for the mglit crowd

Vanya and the Wild Hunt is a tale of two books and follows a trail of breadcrumbs that mglit audiences except and appreciate. A young girl has mysterious parents. Something happens to her, or her parents, which reveals her proclivity towards magic and a quest ensues. There are elements of these patterns or tropes that have existed in literature for the past 100 years. Vanya and the Wild Hunt know their audience. The core audience for this book is fifth-grade through eighth-grade girls. There will always be outliers, but if 100 copies of this book were in various people’s hands, the vast majority would fit in that demographic.

Vanya and the Wild Hunt is mglit that uses the same playbook with minimal changes, but will preach to girls aged 8-12.
Deja vu

It’s About Time!: A Fun Dive into Concepts of Time

Time is a tricky concept because it’s abstract, can be a noun or a verb, and is countable or uncountable. It’s About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World is the sixth in this graphic novel series and is almost as audacious as that Egyptian who suggested dividing a day into 12 parts. The ancient Egyptians counted on their three mid-fingers, as well as, their pinky, plus two of the knuckles on their pinky. But time and people needing to record it for one reason or another didn’t start with them. It’s About Time takes the 500-pound confusing gorilla and tackles it head-on. The graphic novel makes an esoteric topic like ‘time’ interesting, makes young readers think and doesn’t pretend to know all of the answers.

It’s About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World is the sixth in this fabulous non-fiction graphic novel series that threads the needle between fun and education.
IT’s a graphic novel that’s smarter than you and it’s OK.

Pirate & Penguin: A Hilarious Adventure for Young Readers

The sofa cushions. It was between, under or even down in that crevice on the sides of the sofa where the cushion meets the 2 x 4. It’s the area where you realize that a sofa is just a piece of furniture combining lumber, fabric and springs, but also sucks in things that you didn’t know you didn’t want to misplace. Pirate & Penguin was in our metaphorical sofa cushion, except in our case, it’s a real, physical object in the form of a bookshelf. It’s worth mentioning now, even though it’s been stuck in the sofa cushions for a year and a half, because this is the book my six or seven-year-old self would’ve gone mental over.

Pirate & Penguin is an illustrated book that satisfies all of the needs that pre-k through second grade boys didn’t know that they need.
This is the beginning of a late, but beautiful friendship

Don’t Cause Trouble is graphic novel effortless fun for elementary boys

Elementary school-aged boys don’t want to not read. I realize that’s a horrible sentence, but stay with me. Reluctant readers (mainly boys) in third through fifth grade know that they need to read, but don’t because they’re shy, distracted by technology, unable to, or simply read slower than other students. In school that second one doesn’t carry any weight because those ages aren’t going to school with a phone or an ironically named smart watch. The reluctant reader in elementary school has many great options for things that they can read on their schedule. These are the books that they need to bring with them for reading time and is something that they should want to read. Don’t Cause Trouble is a graphic novel like this.

Don’t Cause Trouble is a graphic novel that speaks to grades four through seven in a direct, funny and realistic way that those ages can smell.
This speaks to boys aged 8-12

Just One Wave: A Picture Book, lazy summer dreams on beach anticipation             

Just One Wave: A Picture Book is the illustrated book result of a child’s frustration, and creativity about going to the beach when there aren’t any waves. Kids want big waves, but they’re rightly scared of them. However, if the waves are too small, or non-existent, then it can act as fuel for a child to act out or complain. This is especially true for those who go to the beach at a lake. Just One Wave’s author is Travis Jonke who lives near Lake Michigan, and it’s a logical leap to imagine that the body of water in this book is in his backyard.

Just One Wave: A Picture Book lives in the soul of a four-year-old kid and their joys, frustration and happiness in a day at the beach.
Kids will relate. Adults will remember.

Why Kids Will Love The Mighty Bite: Hog-Rocket Ruckus

I love Phineas & Ferb. I’m convinced that a generation of scientists will reference it as a main inspiration for their endeavors and inventions. I also enjoy Ren & Stimpy. What if the former had a tiny sprinkle of the rudeness and over-the-top insanity of the latter? The Mighty Bite: Hog-Rocket Ruckus is the graphic novel representation of this idea. It’s incredibly smart. It’s also incredibly silly. At times, it’s just a little bit rude and noisy, but never enough to make parents or librarians lower their brows. Hog-Rocket Ruckus is the second book in The Mighty Bite book series that we’ve read, and the third overall. There’s something about Hog-Rocket Ruckus that will speak to some upper-elementary and older readers.

The Mighty Bite: Hot-Rocket Ruckus is slapstick silly, but also very intelligent, in this graphic novel series that speaks to audiences via flying pigs and viral videos.
Unique, awesome, funny, entertaining for mid-elementary up

Why Karate Kid: Legends Is Family-Friendly Fun

There’s a certain joy in a connect-the-dot puzzle. When you adhere to the puzzle’s simple instructions it should end in a relaxing, enjoyable experience that was worth your time. A movie can be like that too. Karate Kid: Legends is like that too, the plot is nothing revolutionary, it’s slightly surprising at times and at just over 90 minutes long it’s too short to really care about it, yet you’ll most likely be entertained.

Karate Kid: Legends, solid family fun for upper-elementary ages and up.
It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s entertaining

Here is a Book, lush, easy and calm for story time chill

Illustrated books are a genre whose entries have certain roles. Here is a Book has the role of calming elementary-aged students down. It’s the ASMR video students watch to make them realize that everything is ok. This is the book teachers will bring out when the class needs to chill out. The carpool line is forming. Kids are certain that they can see the front-end of their dad’s car, and the teacher is simply trying to get them to sit down.  Here is a Book is the story of a book’s journey from quaint country farm with an ocean-view, to purchasing the book or reading it at school.

Here is a Book, a lush, lyrical story about the process on physically creating a book is a satisfying, chill, read aloud for young elementary.
A read aloud

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