I’d heard of this in a few places, so I was glad to get the chance to actually read it. This children’s book is very cute with a bit of a twist at the end. We start off with a princess getting to marry a prince. They both have very fancy clothes and are very proper. Then, a dragon comes and burns the princess’s castle down and takes the prince with him. All of the princess’s belongings burned, and the only thing she can find […]
New adventures in an old favorite
Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies by far. And with the 30th anniversary of the movie happening a few years ago, there were a lot of celebratory books and figures and things that came out. For three years on Free Comic Book Day, there was a short Labyrinth story included in the mix, and those eventually got published as a separate book. The stories and illustrations are by Corey Godbey, who happened to be at New York Comic Con this year, so I was […]
I am Groot
Okay, so I am shamelessly reading and reviewing this before giving it as a gift. (I’m giving it to a 32-year-old man. Who cosplayed as Groot for ComicCon one year. So only the best for my friends!) (Update – he loved it!) Our premise is that Baby Groot is trying to go to bed, but Rocket is having none of that nonsense. There are adventures to be had! The main story is told as a normal bedtime story with rhymes and all, but Rocket […]
The simplest of illustrations, and a book’s worth of confusion is born.
In Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld’s Duck! Rabbit!, we start off with an unusual conundrum: Nobody is really sure what the main character actually is. We’re pretty sure it’s an animal. Of some sort. We’ve got it narrowed down to two, but that’s as close as we can guess. S/he could be a duck – see there? The bill, and the bread eating? or S/he could be a rabbit – only witness the carrot snack and the long, pointed ears. There’s really no telling, […]