The potato chip and cat video complex is strong with this one. That’s the line of reasoning that states that it’s difficult, to near impossible to engage in just one of them. Land of Giants jumps into that fray with just as much glee as the sour cream and onion potato chips or the kittens being jerk video that was in your stream earlier. Everyone loves dinosaurs, while that may sound like a scrapped tv pilot from CBS circa the late 90s, it’s more akin to the fact that people love big lizards and the concept of how massive they actually were.
Let the size of these giant lizard boggle your mindCategory: Books
These are books that kids will want to read-or should read, but will enjoy doing so. Board book, picture books, kid lit, elementary school books, middle school books, high school books, all age comic books and more will be talked about here.
Anglerfish The Seadevil of the Deep, fun STEM for one and all
Fish aren’t inherently evil or bad. However, if you were to pose the question of what’s the evilest fish of them all then the Anglerfish would surely be in that mix. If nothing else, then that glowing light that’s on the end of the fishing rod on their head would qualify them by some people’s classification. If you didn’t know what an Anglerfish was before, then that description certainly painted exactly which fish we’re talking about. Anglerfish, The Seadevil of the Deep is an illustrated book by Elaine M. Alexander with illustrations by Fiona Fogg. This is on the STEM side of illustrated books and presents this mysterious fish in a way that will entertain, make kids curious, and drop little nuggets of knowledge that they’ll gleefully share with their friends.
C’mon in, the water’s fineThe Most Haunted House in America is illustrated ghostly mayhem
A surprise in your illustrated books is OK. You comic book fans know what I’m talking about. The cover doesn’t exactly match the content inside or has text that infers something that might be direr. The Most Haunted House in America is an illustrated book that follows that comic book playbook to the letter. This is a beautifully illustrated book with art that drags you in with the skeleton hands that you’ll quickly see once you open it.

Bodies, Brains & Boogers, makes human health fun for ages 8 and up
Pick a page, any page from Bodies, Brains & Boogers and it’s something that will interest or intrigue ages eight and up. And, while you may not want to tell those ages this, they’ll also learn something from every page, yes, even you older middle school readers. Do you have Demodex, how much collagen is in your brain, how fast are synapses and so many more are questions that will be posed to elementary school students. The takeaway and question for parents, educators, and that wily eight-year-old audience is this, is Bodies, Brains & Boogers a book that they’ll want to read?

Windswept is a fairy tale that those non-fairy tale reading mglit fans will dig
An anthology doesn’t always have to be allegorical. Windswept is a fantasy book that combines elements of those two categories into something that also crosses over in fables and fairy tales. To add to the trippy attitude of the book it has the all-seeing eye that’s firmly placed below a tree. And this is before you know anything about the plot, which is about children being literally swept away by the winds, never to be seen again.

Dear Wild Child adds up to more than meets the artsy eye
The cover of Dear Wild Child immediately catches your attention. It’s the silhouette of a young girl whose long hair is whishing in the wind. Inside her head’s outline are the shapes of a forest in the grip of autumn’s peak with cabin shapes that are inlaid where her eyes, nose, and mouth should be. It’s a nature person’s Picasso, with just a hint of mystery-and that’s just the cover. Once you open Dear Wild Child and start reading it you’ll find a story about nature, family, and loss. This illustrated book also has a curve that readers aren’t expecting.
Coping, family and destruction, but guised in a happy packageKiller Underwear Invasion!, a how to spot fake news primer for 8 and up
Confirmation bias is a big term that isn’t commonly known to most high school kids. It’s at the root of social media, the rise of fake news, and is the enemy of independent thought and critical thinking. Getting young audiences to know when something that they hear or read about online is fake news can be challenging to say the least. It becomes a near impossibility when you factor in the ‘tall tales’ stage that upper elementary students enter. And this doesn’t even consider the politicization that the term ‘fake news’ garnered when it was by President Donald Trump. Half-truths, omission of facts, distractions or simply not acknowledging situations have always existed. Killer Underwear Invasion!, How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories is by Elise Gravel. It’s a playful illustrated book, graphic novel that introduces the concept of not believing everything that you hear to those upper elementary students who desperately need it.
this book nails fake News For ages 8+Middle School Bites: Night of the Vam-Wolf-Zom,P A+ highly recommended
Reluctant reader boys need a skeleton key. It’s that mythical thing that could unlock anything, but in this case, we just need to get them to enjoy reading. Thus, it’s a bit ironic that Middle School is the closest thing that we’ve seen in recent memory for those elementary-aged reluctant readers. Night of the Vam-Wolf-Zom is the fourth book in the Middle School Bites series and it has every element that grades four through six require in their reading.
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