Tack’s Cartoon Tips for the Aspiring Cartoonist printed Devoe & Reynolds in 1923 is almost 90 years old. It is perhaps the one of the…
Posts tagged as “kid books”
Every country at one time had their own Charles M. Schulz, Canada is no exception to this. Doug Wright and his Nipper creation is a…
Guns and comic books at one time went hand in hand. Daisy BB guns were plastered on the inside and back of comic books encouraging…
Graffiti cannot be good grief for any building owner if it is not wanted. Here found in Ottawa is a tribute to Charlie Brown ‘s…
The official trailer for the Smurf movie hit the net and the reactions are very negative for the Americanized version of the Peyo classic. The…
Google Books online has a generous sampling of “Kids Say the Darndest Things!” A recent reprint of the original 1957 book which had a great…
Every culture incorporates stories from other countries, iron curtain Russia of old rendered Lord of The Rings a bit different and unique at the same…
The marriage idea of the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Twilight is as natural as getting peanut butter in chocolate. British publisher…
The Archie universe is getting spicier this year as Dan Parent the Archie artist of twenty years plus for the first time introduces Kevin Keller…
Look who’s back from the dead, Addams Family Broadway is a hit despite critics panning the opening day which generated a considerable amount of money.…
The iPad will be the new playground for exciting ideas re-threaded from old and tired ones. Take Alice in Wonderland and see how it is…
Artist Russell Walks has embarked on a captivating endeavor to infuse life into the otherwise mundane periodic table. Through his remarkable creation, the "Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements.
The source of knowledge begins when most teachers take the kids to the school library and expose them to books on a weekly basis. Many…
Illustrator M.S. Corley is an exceptional cover artist and he is heavily borrowing from the classic Penguin designs of old. The classic Penguin covers were…
The classic Grimm’s fairy tale “Rapunzel” has been rechristened as “Tangled” because of Disney’s last movie, “The Princess and the Frog” which was a death…
The parody of Werner Herzog the German director of Bad Lieutenant, Grizzly Man, and Rescue Dawn reads and interprets the children’s classic Curious George. A…
Calvin and Hobbes finally get licked in 2010 with a series of comic strip stamps that pay tribute also to Archie, Dennis the Menace, Garfield…
[sandboxworld]qVn5bsvtmqk[/sandboxworld] It’s been already 9 years since Charles Schulz passed away on February 9th, 2000. Peanuts is still going stronger each year. Not bad for…
I just wanted to welcome Jeremiah McNichols of Z Recommends as a regular contributor to Sandbox World. It is with pleasure that we include him in…
Meet Tiny — the pint-sized, prehistoric hero! He may be very small, but he’s got a very big heart! When Tiny the dinosaur hatches out…
At first I thought this was a real corny idea. After looking at the recent art and spin on the fairy tales, it looks like…
Thelonious Chipmunk is a Talker — an animal who has inherited the gift of language from his ancestors — and he, for one, believes in…
As teachers, we’re always looking for new ways to help our students engage with texts. James Bucky Carter and the contributors to this collection have…
As teachers, we’re always looking for new ways to help our students engage with texts. James Bucky Carter and the contributors to this collection have…
Spring brings May flowers and Peanuts. Fantagraphics once again releases their run of Peanuts with an intro by animator Bill Melendez. This volume has strips…
Everyone in Rick Bickworth’s class is good at something, except him. One day, though, Rick discovers that he was born to bake. And there’s nothing…