October 2015
Hi Kidsreaders,
Are you guys into mashups? You know --- when you take part of one thing and part of another to make something totally new (I was pretty into the “Walking on Sunshine” and “Halo” mashup on "Glee" a few years back).
Well, I hope so, because this newsletter opener is a bit of a mashup of the two things that have been swirling around my mind this month.
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Editorial Content for Imelda & the Goblin King
Contributors
Reviewer (text)
For some of the most enchanting illustrations ever used in a children's book, flip through IMELDA & THE GOBLIN KING. I wanted to love this book from the front cover, where a little girl perches on a tree branch surrounded by frightened fairies and a goblin lunging across the page. I wanted to read it, then read it over, then sit down all my friends for a story time to read it to them. I wanted this book to make me feel like a child by the fireplace with an enchanted forest in my backyard, and from the front cover, I expected it to. Maybe I shouldn't have. Read More
Teaser
Far away behind the hills, a girl called Imelda lives beside a fairy forest. Every day she ventures into the forest to play with her fairy friends. But within the deepest, darkest depths of the trees lives the worst creature of all --- the Goblin King! When he kidnaps the Fairy Queen, the fairies call upon Imelda to help. Soon she has a cunning plan to turn the Goblin King into a worm and rid the forest of him for good!
Promo
Far away behind the hills, a girl called Imelda lives beside a fairy forest. Every day she ventures into the forest to play with her fairy friends. But within the deepest, darkest depths of the trees lives the worst creature of all --- the Goblin King! When he kidnaps the Fairy Queen, the fairies call upon Imelda to help. Soon she has a cunning plan to turn the Goblin King into a worm and rid the forest of him for good!
About the Book
Filled with inventiveness and beautiful art, this is an unmissable story from a fresh new talent.
Far away behind the hills, a girl called Imelda lives beside a fairy forest. Every day she ventures into the forest to play with her fairy friends. But within the deepest, darkest depths of the trees lives the worst creature of all --- the Goblin King! When he kidnaps the Fairy Queen, the fairies call upon Imelda to help. Soon she has a cunning plan to turn the Goblin King into a worm and rid the forest of him for good!
October 29, 2015
Last week, we gave you a nice roundup of the scariest books we loved as kids. Our little throwback had us wondering if we should, in fact, participate in Halloween this year. Over the past few weeks, we’ve come up with unsatisfactory costume ideas that were immediately shot down. The perennial hype and indecision got us all caught up in the hoopla. In past years, we thrived off the ‘Ween hoopla, but this year was a little different. The endless questions of “What should we do? Where should we go?” bogged us down. The conclusion we came to: orchestrating fun is not easy. So we’re planning to be casual this year, which means we'll throw on an accessory or two and see where the night takes us (hopefully not to a monster hangover). One thing we'll never be casual about, though, is our candy consumption. We’re just gonna do us...with a twist.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
