Cover2CoverBlog: August 2014

Aug 28, 2014

Recent Reads: Food Trucks! by Mark Todd

Food Trucks! by Mark Todd
Publisher: HMH for Young Readers
Publication Date: June 3, 2014

Format: Hardback
Source: HMH Young Readers for Review. Recieving this book in no way effects my opinion or review of the book.

Rating:

Goodreads Synopsis:

"Talk about your meals on wheels!" A convoy of comic food trucks is heading your way, serving up a mouthful of good eats with a side of humor and verse. They've got everything from french fries to falafel. You can sample sushi. Build a burger. Eat an empanada! There's a food truck flavor to satisfy every appetite in this comically illustrated picture book with rhyming text. A fun and informative homage to tasty treats and transportation. Additional fun facts on food history and nutrition are also peppered throughout the book.

Review:
This was a really fun book. It is jam-packed with colorful images and interesting facts about various types of food that it talks about. The illustrations of the food trucks are playful and bright and the book will teach kids about all kinds of different foods using witty poems that go along with the images.

I found this book to be really fun and it did teach me a lot of random food facts that I would then yell across the room to my husband... so this book will be great for all ages and I think parents will enjoy it just as much as kids will.

Aug 27, 2014

Recent Reads: Small Blue and the Deep Dark Night

Small Blue and the Deep Dark Night by Jon Davis
Publisher: HMH for Young Readers
Publication Date: August 26, 2014
Grades: Pre-K- 3, Ages: 4-8

Format: Hardback ARC
Source: HMH for Young Readers for Review. Receiving this book in no way effects my opinion or review of the book.

Rating:

Goodreads Synopsis:

When Small Blue wakes up in the middle of the night, she thinks of hungry things . . . and warty things . . . and hairy things! But are they really as scary as they seem? With the help and comfort of Big Brown, Small Blue slowly begins to imagine fun things in the dark instead of scary ones. Jon Davis's whimsical text and illustrations featuring a sweet father-daughter duo ensure that neither the night nor the unknown will be scary again.

Review:

Small Blue and the Deep Dark Night is a very cute tale about spinning the spooky into fun and the what-ifs that lurk in the dark. Big Brown (a bear) takes care of Small Blue (a bunny) and helps him to realize that those ghastly things he is imagining are playful creatures that just want to say hello.

I think this book is very cute and would be great for young ones that are afraid of being in the dark. It is a good representation of thinking positive as well. Small Blue is adorable and comes to accept that the deep dark night isn't a very scary place after all.

The illustrations are beautiful and engaging with bright colors and cute characters in playful situations. Even the dark pages are interesting and fun. I think this would be a wonderful bedtime story.

Aug 25, 2014

Blast w/ Giveaway!: Twisted Dark by Neil Gibson

About the Book

Twisted Dark is Neil Gibson's interconnected psychological thriller anthology. This, the first volume, is formed of 12 individual and unique stories comprising of nearly 200 hundred pages. The stories vary from 10 year old girls to Colombian drug lords and everything in between but the stories are all somehow connected some obviously so and some not. It is left to the reader to find the connections, with some impossible to see until you have read multiple volumes. The books contains horror, dark, at times demented, stories incorporating every human emotion, illegal activity, and brutal reality. Using various illustrators allows each story and character to develop their own form the reader is left desperate to turn the pages. The book has been embraced by the comic book world receiving critical acclaim and a cult underground following.

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About the Author

Neil is the founder and lead writer at TPub. He is currently writing all of the titles at TPub, but is looking forward to the day when other writers are hired he can take credit for their work. He used to be a management consultant, before realising in his 30s that he loved good comics and wanted to make a career out of them. He believes that the comic book medium is one of the most efficient mediums for communicating stories. If you want to annoy him, just mention how you think comics are for kids. His reaction is a common source of amusement. He has given talks in universities and clubs about comics and will gladly talk anywhere he is invited to about comics and how underutilised they really are. To book Neil to give a talk, please email info@neilgibsoncomics.com

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Aug 24, 2014

Building the Book Pile #105

Welcome to Building the Book Pile! A Weekly meme inspired by Stacking the Shelves

Hello Readers, Bloggers, and Awesome people!

What's Happening?!

Look a finished patio! I am so excited about this, little by little we have been doing pieces of it and now it is finally finished. :D