5/31/2023 0 Comments Cloudy meatballs bookThe moment you open it, you can smell something sweet. In addition to the art, a scratch-and-sniff stickers booklet is included. The colour palette and shapes look inspired by Mary Blair and Maurice Noble. There are San Franjose city, Live Corp and the evolved Swallow Falls. Their designs are almost as wacky as those from The Croods except they are made of food here.Įnvironment art are beautiful too. There are lots of hilariously cute foodimals with funny names, such as Cheespider, Tacodile, Watermelophant, Shrimpanzees and more. Those foodimal designs are great, whimsical and creative. The creature designs are for the foodimals, the complex food-based organisms (or the mutant food-inspired creatures as I would call them) created by the Food Replicator. The extra characters are Chester V, Barb, Thinkquanauts, Sentinels of Safety and the other Live Corp employees. The book covers the characters and creature designs, and the production designs for the environment and props.Īs most of the characters are featured in the earlier art book, the emphasis here is the commentary on how they have changed since we last saw them. On the back of that cover is a 3-page colour script, essentially the storyboard from start to the ending. The front cover is actually a gatefold that when opened up shows a beautiful landscape painting of the Swallow Falls with the wonderful food creatures. This is a very well done companion art book to the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. This art book for Cloudy's sequel is just as good as the first art book.
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Tressie cottom thickThere are eight total essays and they knocked me over, over and over again.ĭr. In this book of essays, she starts off by reclaiming the personal essay format for women of color and for herself specifically. Sharp Academics and Paranormal Romance: An Interview with Kelly Baker, PhD, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, PhD) and she remains one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter and listen to online. This is the type of writing that gives me what I think of as “complete cellular-level stillness.” You know that feeling when you’re listening to, reading, or watching something completely extraordinary, and your entire body goes still? Maybe you have scalp tingles or you’re covered in goosebumps, but you are entirely focused on not missing a thing because it’s freaking incredible? That’s my experience with this book of essays. And even when she does get out, there are challenges awaiting her in the cosmos that she could never possibly imagine or be prepared for.” Trapped in a crowded housing project floating off the coast of Manhattan, a dystopian world where jobs are scarce and excitement non-existent, a bored Halo dreams of escaping out into the galaxy any way she can to rewrite her destiny.īut in a city where dangerous riots happen at the slightest provocation and even going to the shops is an ordeal requiring careful planning and a handful of zen-inducing-grenades, the price of freedom might prove to be more than she bargained for. “Halo is an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Play with Me by Kristen ProbyWill’s girl is Meg who we met briefly in the previous book and that scene is retold at the beginning of this one with Meg’s perspective to show why she is so cold towards Will. In fact, Kristen has a whole stable full of these studs and this series is really shaping up to be a truly great one. Yes, he’s not without fault but then neither was Nate and they both had their moments but I can, hand on heart, swear that if you loved Nate, you so are going to love Will too. Well, how freaking wrong was I? I TOTALLY loved Will. I considered him a real tough act to follow, didn’t really think that Kristen would be able to come up with a hero that measured up to him, however wonderful he seemed. I have loved all Kristen Proby books to date but none more so than Fight With Me and most especially the hero at the centre of that book – the wonderfully tattooed, pierced Nate. When I take you, you’ll know exactly what we’re doing, what you’re feeling, and I won’t stop until your legs are shaking and the neighbors know my name. Marchetta weaves a simple but engaging story that encompasses multigenerational families and a close-knit community working together. The tale will delight younger readers, eager to find out how Zola resolves the situation she has made. Well supported with charming, family friendly illustrations, this lovely rounded story is told with a sensitivity for the generations that have preceded us. A series of stories for the newly capable reader will captivate its audience as they read of a girl just like them: one who gets into trouble without trying to, who seemingly does the wrong thing without meaning to, but is loved and cherished despite her shortcomings. This is a junior fiction series to pay attention to. It truly does warm your heart as you read it. a beautiful junior novel about family and community. a neglected garden that everyone has forgotten. A beautiful street, a community of people you love. Sue Warren, Just So StoriesĪ beautiful big family, cousins living in the house behind you, a hole in the fence for you to climb through and play. Perfect for newly independent readers or for class or home read-alouds, I highly recommend this for little humans from around 6 years upwards. There is a rich diversity in families with single parents, same-sex parents, multi-generational families and different cultures. it’s about re-connecting with community and sharing care, compassion and concern. What an absolute joy is! From start to finish it ticks every box I love!. A charming series that will enchant all who read it. |