F Minus Tony Carrillo is a man of many past careers and inspiration that he purloined from his various jobs of failure is our gain. He mined himself…
Posts published in July 2007
Mad’s Greatest Artists: The Completely Mad Don Martin What has 1200 pages and you would have to be completely mad not to buy. Don Martin’s…
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo What does Jules Verne have in common with Rocket Robin Hood and Captain Kangaroo, plenty they are the reason…
Billy Tartle in Say Cheese! Michael Townsend’s debut book takes the ritual known to all kids who take classroom pictures. Every kid of a certain…
Here is a recipe for disaster. It seems every CGI studio think they can Rumpelstiltskin their computers and weave gold with them. The poster says…
Maintenance Volume 1: It’s A Dirty Job (Maintenance Department) You think you got a dirty job? Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez the creators of Maintenance Department…
What a great idea – illustrator Bryan Ballinger creates drawings and 3-D renderings of models for odd and absurd toy figures. From the futuristic Doggiebot…
The Nick Class Act Checkbook: 40 Checks You Can Write to Your Friends! Here is a perfect way to get kids to learn about money…
What Would Wonder Woman Do?: An Amazon’s Guide to the Working World Suspend your disbelief and imagine Wonder Woman in the working force of the…
Paleo Sharks: Survival of the Strangest Paleo sharks were the largest sharks from the times of dinosaurs, they make the sharks of today seem like the…
Arnie the Doughnut… and Other Fantastic Adventure Stories (Scholastic Video Collection) You read the book and now you can see the adventures of Arnie the…
What’s Cooking?: A Cookbook for Kids (Ratatouille) There is more to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with this Ratatouille cookbook. Lots of fun for kids…
The Incredible Mr. Limpet Mr. Limpet is an oddity in the cinematic world, it pretends to be a kids’ movie but yet it is not.…
The Wonderful Thing About Hiccups Hiccups and kids are hilarious in many levels, many wonder where it comes from and continuously keep talking while they…