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Hey Trey, congratulations on the job you just finished. Once that commercial launches you’ll be able to get your SAG Card! With that you can do all sorts of official acting, extra or voice over stuff, party on. Your next job will be co-hosting for an international toupee infomercial! That means you have a 50/50 chance of being the Ryan Seacrest on this gig, so do your best. You’ll be fitted with a toupee, swim around in a pool with a girl, play tennis-then go to a shopping center and talk to people about ‘the process’.

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The Late Jurassic, detailed, educational-all age, dinosaur book

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Both of our children loved dinosaurs. This is great for us because we like dinosaurs too. We’ve saved all of the dinosaur toys and models that they have (Dinovember!!!) and are still thankful that one of our kids is in this zone. The problem for parents and therefore young children has always been a lack of all age accessible dinosaur books. They’re too cartoonish or detailed for the short attention span that young children have. Early Earth Journal, The Late Jurassic by Juan Carlos Alonso and Gregory S. Paul fills this void of dinosaur books perfectly.

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How This Book Was Made, brilliant, unusual and really funny

How This Book Was Made is the latest book by Mac Barnett. The book’s illustrations are from Adam Rex and together they’ve made one of the most difficult to categorize, utterly strange and wildly enjoyable books we’ve read in a while. From the title you’ll think the book is an inside joke at how an author perceives a book’s creation process-and to an extent you’re correct.

But then you’ll dig into How This Book Was Made and see Barnett arm wrestling a tiger. We’ll meet his editor who eats fancy lunches in her skyscraper while wearing a tiara. Barnett’s multiple drafts will also be sent across the country, leaving dotted line like Billy from The Family Circus. The tiger returns with a fox, octopus, seagull, chef, panda and more to confront the author and look over the draft.

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Dino-Mike, action/sci-fi reading for young readers

Mike Evans is your typical 9 year old kid. He looks up to his dad, who is a world renowned paleontologist who travels the world. Thankfully for our title character Mike has the habit of finding adventure, usually in the form of reanimated dinosaurs. Sometimes it’s a shadowy character pulling the strings, time traveling or meeting new friends who might factor into the story somehow. Dino-Mike is a continuing mini-series of books that will appeal to kids in upper elementary through middle school who like action, science fiction, dinosaurs or travel.

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All age comic books for September 21

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Every Wednesday is new comic book day; it’s when dozens of new books are released to your local store. In that amount are about two dozen all age comic books that are great for ages 4 and up. Some of the comic books in this list are going to be geared for tweens. We’ll point out those books the best that we can. When in doubt you can email us, trey@daddymojo.net, @daddymojo on twitter or ask your local comic book store, they’re jam packed with knowledge.

Oh-the podcast! Give that a listen if you would, it’s only 15 minutes and we’ll highlight some of the more unique books that are released. A rating on whichever service you’re listening to it on would be great too. Can you do that for us?

Let’s go over the comics that are great, but are for the older readers in the children’s category. These comics are great for ages 10 and up, mainly due to the content, which might have some death, violence or themes that aren’t OK for young kids. Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od and Doctor Who are fun sci-fi mini-series with more reading than younger kids will tolerate. Creepy Case File Margo Maloo graphic novel is a book that ages 9 and up will like, but its scare factor might be too much for younger ones.

Toil and Trouble is a fresh look at the story behind Shakespeare’s MacBeth. The art and story are beautiful, it’s one that age group-if they’re into the classics will eat up.

Our 4 year old loves Donald Duck and issue #17 from IDW is out this week. Invader Zim is a funny series-that you don’t have to know anything about the television show to really enjoy. Adventure Time 2016 Spooktactular #1, Miraculous #5, Angry Birds #9 and lots of others give kids looking for all age comic books many options to choose from.

MoonCop is for the adults. MoonCop is for the kids that get dry, observational humor. Both of these statements are true. From cartoonist Ton Gauld, MoonCop is unlike anything you’ve read before and is such that you can relate to it here on Earth or on the moon.

Action/Science fiction

Superhero

Humor

Dog Man by Dav Pilkey takes the baton from Captain Underpants

If you have a young reader then you know Captain Underpants. He’s the erstwhile principal who fights evil while wearing his underwear and is often assisted by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth grade students. It’s also the publishing juggernaut that’s seen millions of books in dozens of languages, a feature film in the summer of 2017 and Dog Man is the character that started it all more than 40 years ago.

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TMNT: Out of the Shadows Blu-ray DVD giveaway

The turtles hit the streets again! Did you catch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows when it was in theaters? We saw it and were pleasantly surprised by how entertaining it was for us-and how great the film is for kids. Yes, Out of the Shadows is rated PG-13, but it’s on the softer side of that rating.

The Blu-ray DVD for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows has two discs. One features the DVD feature film. The other one has the Blu-ray version, deleted scenes, music videos, ILM-The Effects Beneath The Shell and a recap on some turtle eggs that you might have missed. It also comes with a Digital HD Ultraviolet copy that allows you to view the film anywhere.

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This giveaway for Out of the Shadows is fun viewing for kids 9 and up. Its PG-13 rating is earned through some language that’s used in the first 30 minutes of the film. The action sequences are fun and will entertain kids in that age range. Our 7 year old would’ve been a little scared, but the average 8 year old will watch the film and have a hoot of a time. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows is available on video September 20, 2016.

The Pinkaboos, middle school fright-friendly books scare up courage

The Pinkaboos are a group of friends who are Frights that are being picked on at school. The bully, Vex, is an older student who picks on Bitteryly, Belladonna and Abyssma for no reason other than the fact that they’re younger than her. It’s the job of a Fright to help their assigned human conquer the fears that they encounter during a nightmare. Vex refers to them as Pinkaboos because they attend Fright School, and pink is the farthest thing from scary, isn’t it?

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