From all age comic books, children’s books and parenting books this is what Daddy Mojo is reading and recommends
Giraffes Ruin Everything, it’s true. Many years ago Richard Pryor had a routine that made a parallel illogical and entertaining jump that snakes will make you run into trees. Giraffes Ruin Everything is a children’s book that ages 3 to 8 will howl with laughter at. Parents will like the book too because it teaches kids a valuable lesson that they might have trouble learning the first time.
Continue reading Giraffes Ruin Everything, but this book makes it all better
Kids love trucks. Kids love cake. Kids love being silly. If you combine these you’ll get The Mixed-Up Truck, by Stephen Savage. It’s the story of a cement mixer and its first day on the job who means well, but keeps making simple mistakes. Kids make mistakes too. The Mixed-Up Truck is also an allegory for children that it’s normal to make mistakes.
Continue reading The Mixed-Up Truck gets teaching kids (and having fun) allegorically A-OK
Salina Yoon is an author whose distinctive style makes her work immediately memorable for its demographic. Yoon has a way of speaking to the pre-school to early elementary school audience like few who write for that field. If I didn’t know that she was a grown woman I’d swear that she attended our son’s pre-school class with him. Bear’s Big Day is another example of her channeling everyone’s inner 4 year old going back to school, or in this case, starting school.
Continue reading Bear’s Big Day by Salina Yoon, soothing school jitters for small kids
“I want to read the Bongo”, he said. Our oldest son has no idea who The Simpsons are. He just knows that he likes reading any of the Simpson’s titles that Bongo Comics publishes. I’ve tried numerous times explaining to him that Bongo Comics is the publisher and that the actual name of the book is different. We purchased Simpsons Illustrated #24 from our local comic book store and he immediately said that he wanted to read it,-which led our younger son screaming the same thing and go running to where we got our copy. A child screaming is bad enough, but to the employees at a comic book store it’s kryptonite to Superman. We quickly paid for our comic, went to the car and had another discussion about inside voice, as well as the Bongo Comics vs. Simpsons Illustrated overview.
Continue reading Simpsons Illustrated #24 from Bongo Comics review
Spoiler alert, we like to read and want kids to start reading at an early age. Key to that happening is finding subjects that they actually want to read about. For some that topic matter is undeniable going to be superheroes, like Batman, Superman, Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. Certainly there are some all age comic books that have those characters in them; but those comics helps further their interest in reading, but may not be at a level for early readers. Capstone has a series of origin stories that feature Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman designed fill that superhero void.
Continue reading Origin stories from Capstone fill the young reader superhero void
It’s tough to be a kid who is into the undead. Even our 4 year old knows about zombies, despite the fact that he has never seen anything close to them on television. The closest he’s probably gotten is Scooby Doo where a ‘zombie’ attacks the gang but is promptly outed as an angry tenant wearing a mask. Ghoul Scouts, Night of the Unlving Undead is a clever comic for young readers that helps satisfy their zombie curiosity while providing some lessons to live by too.
Continue reading Ghoul Scouts, Night of the Unliving Undead #3 review
Kids are weird. Having said that, I’m weird and so are you. There is something about all of us-at one point or another, that we thought we were different, uncool, strange or utterly alien. The difference is that kids are brand new to being different and find it tougher to deal with. A Tiger Tail, (or what happened to Anya on her first day of school) by Mike Boldt is the story of a girl’s first day of First grade and her strange new appendage.
Continue reading A Tiger Tail, by @MikeBoldt, a first day of school tale kids will relish
I got in trouble the other day with my wife. It was busy and I needed the kids to watch something so I told them that they could watch SpongeBob. D’oh. There are just a couple words that they use in the show that our kids picked up and we’d rather not hear in the house. Mainly they use ‘stupid’, combined with the attitude that keeps Bikini Bottom off of our television screens for now. However, we do not have any issue with SpongeBob Comics. Issue #58 is a great example of that with detailed art, a busy, fun plot in this comic that jams lots of entertainment into its 32 pages.
Continue reading SpongeBob Comics #58, great value, art and laughs for 6 and up
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