We have a child that absolutely goes mental over lovies. These are the stuffed animals that populate a child’s room, they can be an alligator, bear, character from a movie or a stuffed thing that he won from a claw machine, but they all have the same name: Lovey. If you’ve seen Men In Black: International there’s a cute scene where an alien hides amongst some lovies. That film is available on Blu-Ray DVD now and they’ve partnered with Budsies to remind people that anything in a child’s imagination can be a lovey.
If pre-K through early elementary school kids had coffee
tables then If I Was The Sunshine is one of those books that would be front and
center. “Oh, isn’t that book fabulous”, the clumsy kid from down the street
would say. “And those illustrations, the farm animals that were drawn by Loren
Long are absolutely dreamy. They’re solid, yet ethereal and remind me of a
place that I’ve never been to-but I sure want to go”, said the visiting art
critic from some big city on the coast. “The size of the book is great too.
It’s as big around as that dwarf white pumpkin we’re grew last year”, Sam the
farmer from Georgia commented.
In this imaginary world of coffee talk all of these small children would be correct. If I Was The Sunshine is a children’s illustrated book whose mere presence makes you take notice. Boom, all one has to do is look at the book and it grabs your attention. This is a large book at over a square foot large this book takes up a lot of real estate on your shelf. Its height rivals those tall, encyclopedia-style National Geographic books. The size grabs your attention, the art keeps you engaged and the soft, rhyming narration will mellow out crabby children at the end of the day.
This is a sponsored post. All thoughts are our own. We have a family friend who just went off to college. Aside from making me feel old at dirt I was amazed at the fact that they were going to college without a car. Color me surprised to find out that many college age students (and older) don’t think twice about not having a car. Part of that reason is due to the popularity of people using scooters as a supplemental mode of transportation. Color me even more surprised to find out that scooters are priced to, pardon the pun, move. Parents, the annoying scooters at busy intersection do not need to be your student’s de facto way home. Students, you can own a scooter that’s 100% owned by you and not some other yee haw who walks the same way home. Case in point is the Hover-1 Electric Folding Scooter that you can purchase from Best Buy.
The Hover-1 Electric Scooter is a personal mode of transportation that is affordable, yours and utterly unique.
The Hover-1 Electric Folding Scooter get’s it going
The Hover-1 Electric Folding Scooter checks off every imaginable want, need or concern for people who need a ride around campus or the neighborhood; as well as, those older people who are concerned about safety.
For those taking the
Hover-1 around campus this scooter can make a round trip journey at an 8-mile
school. You don’t have to be Eminem to realize that’s a long way to travel 16
miles without needing to re-charge your wheels.
As I go back in the time
machine I think to my college campus and there were paths galore and hills
aplenty. This scooter could easily get through all of those areas and do so in
a quicker and cooler way than my bike back then. The bike I had then weighed
about 40 bulky pounds. If I had a flat or otherwise couldn’t ride it home I’d
be at the mercy of my friends with a truck.
The Hover-1 folds up within seconds and weighing in at 27 pounds can easily be transported by most people to their dorm, apartment, class or the three steps up to the first floor. This is a light, portable form of short-range transportation that you can own and your friends will be jealous of.
If you’re late for
something the Hover-1 has enough get-up-and-go to move you there poste haste. It
can move at 14 MPH and that’ll get you across campus or down the street quicker
than you can say “What do you mean I have to pay my own phone bill?”
It also brakes with ease
because it has electronic and foot brakes. Parents, this one is for you so that
you don’t worry about your distracted young adult who is looking at cute coeds.
Students, two methods of brakes mean that you are much less likely to take that
unfortunate tumble in the corner when the leaves are wet. This is a win-win
situation.
The Hover-1 Electric Folding Scooter can be purchased at Best Buy. This is a mode of transportation that’ll give parent’s piece of mind and students the ability to get around campus on their own terms.
This is a great week for all age comic books. Big Nate is
out with two (yes two) new books this week. One of them is the collected comic
strip Big Nate while the other is a board book version of new Big Nate nonsense
and they’re both awesome, but for different ages. Also great for elementary school age kids are
Despicable Me and My Little Pony-both with a Little Golden Book, Mr. Peabody
& Sherman and Seafoam. Middle school ages will enjoy The Okay Witch.
Books that capture the attention of elementary or middle school readers need to be entertaining. It’s a bonus if said books can fun and leave those young readers with a smile on their face or a sense of wonder. Rare is the book that can be entertaining and fun, all the while doing it in a non-fiction book that upper elementary aged readers will enjoy. First Names is a line of books from Abrams Books for Young Readers and if this first book is any indication of their things to come it’ll be a go-to series for this age group. First Names: Harry Houdini by Kjartan Poskitt with illustrations by Geraint Ford is a book that has you smiling from couple pages into the book and weaves a breathlessly true tale that you don’t know.
Sophie Johnson loves unicorns. In way she’s like any dreamy-eyed kid between four and eight who wants to believe in magical things. For a short period of our lives trolls, elves and unicorns populate our world. For some people it’s a combination of these creatures, while others are fully invested in one of them. Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert is what her business card would say, if six year-olds started carrying them around. What makes this book work is that it goes beyond the imagination of a young child, has fabulous colors and has just a touch of meta to make any kid in that age range enjoy it.
A worry is not a physical thing. The moment you stop obsessing over said ‘worry’ it magically disappears into the background of life. It’s natural to have illustrated books about being worried because some miss and some hit. Ruby Finds a Worry is by Tom Percival and expertly brings his warmth, pacing, sublime story telling ability and art to a worthy book about a topic that we need to address…but not be worried about.
Eight pages should not be this entertaining and be able to tell a contained story. That’s what I was thinking at the end of each profile in Awesome Achievers in Technology, Super and Strange Facts about 12 Almost Famous History Makers. Awesome Achieves is a new book series written by Alan Katz, who wrote the very funny book The Day The Mustache Took Over, its sequel and many others. This is an educational book, but it’s also fun to read and provides dozens of ‘light bulb’ moments when readers will see the moment that something special in history was created.
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