Children's book reviews, all age comic books, Kidlit, mglit, movies, entertainment and parenting
Sing does what many movies fail to do; it gets better with repeated viewing. We saw Sing in theaters and were pleasantly surprised. It’s not paced like a traditional film, much less an animated one, plus the humor and heart that are obvious in its first viewing are even bigger the second time around. Additionally our two boys (aged 5 and 7) loved it and picked on the lessons that characters taught.
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Joe Books does a great job of transferring Disney characters into comic books. From their cinestory comics to the monthly titles for Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Vs. the Forces of Evil and more they really hit their niche with young or reluctant readers. Disney PIXAR Cars is one of the most popular licensed properties in the world so it’s not surprising that it finally make it to comic books.
And for young readers, aged 5-8 Disney PIXAR Cars will be a very fun comic book. It has all the characters that fans know from the films with Mater and Lightning present in every story. The comic book consists of several short stories that are 4-6 pages each. Each story takes place in a familiar territory like Radiator Springs or on a race track with Lightning.
Young readers will like the art, short stories and laugh at the appropriate times. However, readers 9 or older will get bored of the comic. Maybe it’s the length of each short story but they all end like an episode of Three’s Company. Someone says a pun, all the characters laugh and we end it with a shot of the credits.
Disney PIXAR Cars, the comic book is for those young Cars fans that want to read along to Radiator Springs. It’s not a particularly entertaining comic book and fans older than 9 will quickly figure that out.
This is a sponsored post. All thoughts are our own. Spring! It’s here and our favorite festival to welcome her is the Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival held at Blackburn Park on March 25-26. This is a great spring festival in the Atlanta area because it literally covers any interest area that you might have, plus it’s centrally located.
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There are a couple movies this year that our 7 year old wants to see. The first one that he said he wanted to see was The Boss Baby and he told me that in the summer of 2016. “I want to see The Boss Baby”, he said confidently as he strode across the office. Fast forward 9 months and umpteen hundreds of Boss Baby questions later our son-and his friends in elementary school can relax on the questions because The Boss Baby is coming to movie theaters.
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“You’ve never heard of The Boxcar Children? They’ve been around for 75 year, have been translated into dozen of languages, are one of the best early chapter books and loved by elementary school aged children everywhere”, she said. Granted, she worked for the publishing company, but she was clearly enthusiastic about finding someone who had never heard of The Boxcar Children. Journey on a Runaway Train celebrates the 75 anniversary with a new five-book miniseries.
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We stream all of our television. Because of that our children have little patience with commercials and want their programming now. Hear the hoards of children 8 and younger scream with delight as they discover PJ Masks–Let’s Go PJ Masks as they’re favorite pajama wearing heroes arrive on DVD for the first time!
It was about 20 minutes into Beauty and the Beast when I stopped looking for flaws in the film. It’s not that the film is flawless; it’s just that it won’t matter. People could point out any number of things that didn’t work, in their opinion- and Beauty and the Beast would still be a movie juggernaut for ages 5 and older. In the end, Beauty in the Beast is a very good film, countless young girls will have the gold dress that Belle wore in the big dance number and many men will dress up as Gaston or LeFou.
First off, the classic songs used in the original film held up very nicely. They really are great songs and the story that sets up the music is a classic one that anybody can relate to. In this live action retelling of the film there are a couple new songs that aren’t as catchy, but they’re quickly forgotten and the film quickly moves onto the next one.
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As a film though, it feels like a television movie at times, albeit with a massive budget, flawless costumes and huge sets. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen a movie that fades out of scenes. However Beauty and the Beast in several occasions fades out, goes dark for a millisecond and then goes into the next scene. I know that they are not built in commercial breaks, but in what other film have you noticed instances when they fade out?
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This is a film that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, but is Kong: Skull Island OK for children? It’s got that sweet PG-13 rating which can be a curse or a blessing, depending on source material. If it’s too gentle then nobody will want to see it and if it’s too graphic then middle school masses won’t be able to see it. Factor in that the monster genre has been criminally under-represented in movies and you’ve got a combination that could be a great thing for monster hungry movie fans.
Kong: Skull Island is a mild to strong PG-13 film. There is one f bomb, a couple S words and lots of monster fighting. The fight sequences range from the human to monster kind to the much more entertaining monster to monster fights. There’s no sex nudity or erstwhile mentions of love, everyone is too busy fighting monsters or getting through the jungle.
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