He must find another way to raise money-and fast Ed uses his newfound ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids laughing.Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought. Branches books help readers grow Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. As a desperate last resort Ed seeks the advice of Mr. Looniverse #2 is even wackier than the first book Everyone and everything around him starts acting stranger and stranger. Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 1.0 Review Citations: School Library Journal pg. Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.35" W x 7.62" (0.30 lbs) 96 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Chapter Books WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: Looniverse Meltdown Madness: A Branches Book (Looniverse #2), 2Ĭontributor(s): Lubar, David (Author), Loveridge, Matt (Illustrator)
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Top-notch for group storytime, for a project on revising classics or just for enjoyment funniest for kids who know the original. When she’s beyond satiated, her pupils dilate-enormous, then tiny-subtly nodding to the old tale’s “too big, too small” theme. Willems’ trademark cartoon-style illustrations include sly eyebrows, sardonic glances and a fabulous picture of Goldilocks inside a pudding bowl. Child-friendly irony lets readers giggle knowingly as Mama Dinosaur muses, “I SURE HOPE NO INNOCENT LITTLE SUCCULENT CHILD HAPPENS BY OUR UNLOCKED HOME WHILE WE ARE…uhhh…SOMEPLACE ELSE!” They’re “definitely not hiding in the woods waiting for an unsuspecting kid” pudding sits unattended to enable the creation of “delicious chocolate-filled-little-girl-bonbons (which, by the way, are totally not the favorite things in the whole world for hungry Dinosaurs).” Winking, the text places readers gleefully in the know-and Goldilocks is no patsy either. Even funnier are the obviously fraudulent protestations. The structure’s well-known, so the endpapers list myriad permutations, almost all crossed out: Goldilocks and the Three Clams? Three Ostriches? Three Glasses of Milk? Nope, it’s Dinosaurs: Papa, Mama and one Dinosaur "who happened to be visiting from Norway.” Details are tasty-chocolate pudding instead of porridge a different furniture riff (“The first chair was too tall. In another, he plays along with staffers at his dad’s nursing home who think he’s comedian Dave Chappelle. In one essay, he visits a gun range and marvels that they sell boxer briefs with a holster in the back. Sedaris started down this path with his 2018 collection, “Calypso.” And four years later, amid an unrelenting pandemic, racial unrest and ever-more-divisive politics, there’s even more to be gloomy about.Īs usual, Sedaris highlights the random weirdness and hilarity of modern life. But the tone here is more somber, even melancholy, as he explores topics like gun violence, aging, and the sudden but not wholly unexpected death of his 98-year-old father. His newest collection, the ironically titled “Happy-Go-Lucky,” is just as funny and irreverent as his previous works. We had such fun poking fun at all the tropes in paranormal m/m books that we are eagerly trying to tackle a few more this time like: arranged/forced marriage, pretend boyfriends, werewolves vs. While my other writing partner, Eleanor Bruce and I are already writing the sequel to our recent werewolf book, The Moon’s Dirty Light (eXtasy Books). Sue and I are brainstorming for our next book which might/might not be a sequel to Facing the Music. What are some of your plans for future books, plot lines etc… Plus, I grew up with a father who worked at a radio station for over thirty years until he retired, so I’ve meet a lot of interesting musicians over the years and always wanted to write about a dysfunctional band on the verge of breaking up. tour and wanted to add that into the plot. We both had been to the Hotel Café, where our rock band kicks off their U.S. How do you manage to come up with such detailed backgrounds, not just the characters, but the worlds too?įor our new book, Facing the Music, Sue and I drew from our experiences visiting Los Angeles. If grime music were a novel, it would be this.īack in 2011 when riots flared up in England, I remember riding home late at night on a bus that had to be diverted because Brixton was in chaos. When We Speak of Nothing launches a powerful new voice onto the literary stage.The fluid prose, peppered with contemporary slang, captures what it means to be young, black and queer in London. Abu finds himself in its midst, leading to a near-tragedy that forces Karl to race back home. Meanwhile, the murder of Mark Duggan triggers a full-scale riot in London. Rejected on arrival, Karl befriends Nakale, an activist who wants to expose the ecocide in the Niger Delta to the world, and falls headlong for his feisty cousin Janoma. When Karl finds out his father lives in Nigeria, he decides that Port Harcourt is the best place to escape the sound and fury of London, and connect with a Dad he's never known. Meanwhile, Karl is the target of the local "wannabe" thugs just for being different. Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her. Its 2011 and racial tensions are set to explode across London. If you didn't concentrate you would think they weren't moving at all, their bodies just hanging in space."īest mates Karl and Abu are both 17 and live near Kings Cross. Hips swaying, left, slow, right, slow, step, slow. "Some of the women walked so slow they were, like, floating. Indeed, only tentative and not well thought out steps are taken to deal with the emergency. By the next chapter, the car thief, the other patients in the surgery, and the ophthalmologist have all been infected by the white blindness! As soon as the eye specialist examines the man, he concludes that this kind of blindness "defies explanation." He tells his patient to go home, assuring him that he will be contacted as soon as he finds a remedy as well as an explanation for the disease. The blind husband and his caring wife thus must go to their ophthalmologist in her car. But the good Samaritan turns out to be a car thief the car keys are nowhere to be found the car is not where it is supposed to be. They reach his flat, where his wife takes charge and decides to consult an eye specialist. He (all characters in the novel are unnamed) explains frantically to the irate drivers who berate him, "I am blind!" Soon he is weeping and crying out loud, "I see everything white." A man, apparently a good Samaritan, volunteers to drive him home. We are at an intersection where as a traffic light switches from amber to green, a car driver finds himself unable to move. The opening paragraphs of Blindness are innocuous enough. Follow the wild adventures of eight year old Johann and his grandfather as they explore the Chesapeake Bay shoreline and, falling through time, discover more than just the fossil teeth of long-ago monster sharks.ġ:00 p.m. Peter Vogt - Maryland author of The Monster Shark’s Tooth and A Most Mysterious Fossil is a great for young readers. David illustrated this children’s book along with several of Priscilla Cummings very popular books including Chesapeake ABC’s and Chesapeake 123’s.ġ1:00 a.m. Zora and David Aiken are authors of Chesapeake Play Day. – 12:00 noon Janie Suss – local Marylander authored the children’s favorite Oscar and Olive Osprey.ġ1:00 a.m. This is the perfect opportunity to find a new favorite book, personalize a book for a special Christmas gift, and participate in fun activities provided by some of the authors. Join them outside at the Museum Store book fair tent from 10:00 a.m. The Calvert Marine Museum, in partnership with Schiffer Publishing, is proud to present local published authors and illustrators on October 10 and 11 during Patuxent River Appreciation Days. VISIT LOCAL AUTHORS AT PRAD Find your new favorite book and get the perfect holiday gift! CMM-PR-15-51 OctoFor Immediate Release - Also include in community calendars And the Band Played On exposes why AIDS was allowed to spread while the medical and political authorities ignored and even denied the threat. He was perfectly placed to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole. Shilts interviewed over 1,000 people, weaving together extensive research in the form of personal stories and political reportage. In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, he quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, one which devastated his community and eventually took his life as well. An impressively researched and richly detailed narrative.' TIME Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' The New York Times 'Stunning. To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything but it comes at a terrible cost. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul. No one can know that she's lost her magic. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything. This combined edition of the two original Japanese volumes features a flexible binding for easy use. This book is filled with over 70 detailed line illustrations based on images found in the manga. Demon Slayer: The Official Coloring Book features the art of Koyoharu Gotouge, the creator of the hit manga series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. Color over seventy illustrations featuring your favorite characters from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with art by manga artist Koyoharu Gotouge. |