Daddy Mojo, Author at Daddy Mojo

The Mango Tree (La Mata De Mango) is a wordless joy of a book

How can a wordless book be bilingual? The beauty of a great wordless book is that it belongs to everyone anywhere. Sure, the story might be one that readers from another area have no chance of actively doing themselves, but it’s an entertaining one that offers something that they can take away. The Mango Tree or La Mata De Mango is a wordless book whose only language difference is evident by its two titles and the fact that the author’s note is in Spanish and English. The story in The Mango Tree is a simple one of friendship, childhood discovery, change, adventure, and adaptation.

The Mango Tree uses big colors, strong lines and the timeless theme of adventure and friendship to fuel imagination in this wordless book.

A bilingual wordless book? Polyglots unite.

Flying Fillies coming-of-age with a historical fiction, female, WWII twist

There’s an advertisement on the radio that so sweet and schmaltzy that your initial reaction is to quickly change the station like some Pavlovian dog. But you’re too late and four seconds into the ad you’re disarmed by its quaint music and down-home copy. By the end of the ad its name is stuck in your head and you’re pining for a pint of that stupid ice cream that you know you shouldn’t eat. It shamelessly reminds you of a different era, a time when things were different, slower, and more patient. Flying Fillies: The Sky’s the Limit is upper-elementary and middle school mglit that harkens back to that feeling. It’s mglit that dances between a coming-of-age story, the non-fiction world of WASPs, and the backdrop of early 1940s WWII paranoia and pride with ease in a way that gives those younger readers an age-appropriate view into trailblazers that you never knew about.

Flying Fillies: The Sky’s the Limit is historical fiction about a real group of women pilots in WWII who bridged the cap and broke a barrier or two.

Historical fiction that resonates if you give it a chance

The eXpets, say hello to your next favorite elementary school graphic novel

Somewhere between learning to read and reading to learn is when elementary-aged children discover graphic novels. Their manic energy, full-color attitude, and age-appropriate puns, make the great graphic novels ones that are shared and the stuff of kid water cooler magic. The eXpets is the first book in a new graphic novel series that takes aim at a younger-than-usual demographic and will please that audience to no end.

The eXpets is an early reader graphic novel that’s great for second through fifth grade. It’s funny for all, with enough blank space and brief text for those younger kids.

those elementary students who know, know.

Big Book of Vehicles, a tactile picture book with great illustrations

What if Eric Carle illustrated one of Richard Scarry’s books with a more narrative vibe? First off, let’s remind you that Eric Carle is the illustrator behind Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Richard Scarry is the author and illustrator of over 300 books that show young children the myriad of things that happen or exist in their town. Big Book of Vehicles is a picture book that is all about the things that move. Some of them go in the air, on the water, underground, have people, cargo or move in the mountains, but they all go and kids will be able to turn to any page in this book and lose themselves in the best of all possible book ways.

Big Book of Vehicles is a picture book whose creative illustrations will bring in more people than the average book of moving things.

Little Explorers, Big facts, big fun for ages 3 and up

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, it’s exactly what you want it to be

The thing about monster, horror or Fast & Furious movies is that you don’t expect them to be great, you just don’t want them to be bad. A bad mixture for each of them depends on what thing isn’t added. Monster movies, like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire need to have monsters smashing lots of things, numerous objects or scenery that illustrates their massive size and not have too many humans, or at least too many annoying humans. Using that criteria, and the guidance of our son, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire checks off all of those boxes and is the sort of film where middle school ages and non-critics will enjoy it.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is monster fun, monster big and monster expectations. It won’t change minds, but it’ll entertain fans of the genre.

Godzill and Kong sitting in a tree……

The Otherwoods, bait and switch mglit on acceptance donned in a horror robe

I love going to a beef jerky store. Due to my high blood pressure, I can’t frequent them too often, thus, it’s great that they’re not on every corner. There is a beef jerky store in the area where we vacation and I go in there just to tease my senses. Imagine that your version of this story exists for whatever you like. However, on the next visit to the beef jerky store, all of the jerky has been replaced by different types of string cheese. The name of the store hasn’t changed, they’re still claiming to sell beef jerky, but the only product that they’re selling is cheese. The Otherwoods is selling cheese when it’s advertising beef jerky.

The Otherwoods is LGBTQ acceptance in sheep-horror clothing. It’s not scary enough for the later, yet aims the book’s jacket at that audience.

This is not the ghost or spooky book that you’re looking for

Ghost Book, a graphic novel that’ll immediately go to the forever bookshelf

It has been a long time since I’ve been so engrossed in a graphic novel. Ghost Book by Remy Lai is a graphic novel that is utterly putdownable. That is not a real word. However, there needs to be a word that book reviewers use every once in a rare while to describe a book that upends their senses and makes them stop what they’re doing. For me it was my planning period when I should’ve been getting papers ready for a group of high school students. I needed a break so I started reading Ghost Book and then 30 minutes later I stopped.

Ghost Book is a graphic novel that’s an effortless master class in storytelling. It’s a big story told in a way that’s not confusing and breathlessly entertaining.

EidTale, an Eid as-Fitr Adventure, a board book, gatefold journey to smile at

How much fun could a board book have if a board book’s intention were to not make audiences bored? That question is answered in the book’s design and layout. When you make the book innovative and combine that with bright colors and sharp graphics its potential audience is limitless. Thus, EidTale, An Eid as-Fitr Adventure is an Abrams Trail Tale board book that follows its predecessors in being an interactive board book. These thick pages fold out, up and down with the purpose of introducing or allowing pre-k through first graders the chance to share or enjoy a time of the year that they really enjoy.

EidTale: An Eid al-Fitr Adventure continues the approachable excellence of the Abrams Trail Tale book series in a non-secular manner.

An Abrams Trail Tale book strikes gold again