Christmas Journal for Kids! Created by Melissa Bastow & Made Amazing By You! + giveaway

Christmas Journal for Kids!
Created by Melissa Bastow & Made Amazing By You!
Genre: Kids Holiday Journal & Activity Book
This cute self-exploration Christmas journal and activity book will help your little holiday lover enjoy even more of their favorite season while stretching their creativity, reading, and writing skills!

Each daily journal entry will help them focus on the positive parts of their day while also grounding them through observation and mood identification. The coloring pages and activity section of the journal will provide hours of fun while also engaging critical thinking skills, planning, and creating!

Some activities include:
• coloring pages
• plan a holiday party
• interview with a reindeer
• write a Christmas movie
• puzzle games
• draw a Santa wanted poster
• LOTS MORE!

This journal is for children who can read, but would also be fun to do as a parent/child activity!

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Melissa is a mom to 5 kids, 1 husband, and 42 piles of laundry. She hates making dinner. She loves that she gets to sit in her comfy pants and doodle for a living.

Sometimes Melissa wakes up in the middle of the night with silly story ideas in her brain, because the middle of the night is no time for rational thoughts.

She hopes to have more kids stories coming soon, and if you want to check out the rest of her doodlings you can visit her website at www.dorkydoodles.com

Giveaway

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Cover Reveal: 🩸 BLOOD! NOT JUST A VAMPIRE DRINK🥤 by Stacy McAnulty

I thought this cover was fun!

Stacy McAnulty has a bunch of cool informative books for kids. Check out her stuff :)

Plus there is a pre-order sale at B&N for her next two releases.

by Stacy McAnulty

🩸 BLOOD! NOT JUST A VAMPIRE DRINK🥤

Available: Aug 2022

Illustrated by: @shawnajctenney

Published by: @mackidsbooks

Agent: @lkliterary

Save the People!

Our Planet!

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In no particular order... I'm a wife, mother of 3 kids and 3 dogs, author, daughter, sister and stepsister, aunt, friend, Twitter addict, mechanical engineer (currently inactive), inconsistent blogger, Packers fan, two-finger typist, concerned citizen, book-buying enthusiast, reluctant volunteer, minivan driver, pancake flipper, snooze-button hitter, and coupon clipper.

Sheep Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon:The Hidden World (2019)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

Feb 22, 2019
Directed By: Dean DeBlois
Written By: Dean DeBlois
Cast: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harington, Craig Ferguson, F. Murray Abraham
Runtime: 110 minutes
Rating: PG (for adventure action and some mild rude humor)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family
Studio: Universal Pictures
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they've known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together-to the very ends of the Earth-to protect everything they've grown to treasure.

Went to see How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World with my 17-year-old daughter. The first movie came out in 201o when she was 8-years-old! So according to her, these movies represent her childhood.

I'm not giving any specific plot spoilers, but we all know this movie was about the dragons going to live in The Hidden World where they would be safe. And that meant leaving behind their human friends. My first thought was this is going to a tear-jerker...and I was right! But it also a wonderful movie about sacrifice, finding and losing love and all the feels involved. Of course, there is plenty of humor. The sheep wear dragon costumes! Wish I could find a screenshot for you.

There really isn't any to not like about this movie, but they went overboard on the look how cute and adorkable Toothless is trying to woo his love. He is they're money-maker, but I was thinking let's get on with the story, please!

Yes, the ending is bittersweet but the writers softened the blow with the last scene.

Holly gives it 5 "This is my childhood" Sheep

SharonS gives is 4.5 "should have brought a tissue" Sheep

Action Lab Entertainment Christmas comic for kids!

Looking for Christmasy comic for your young ones? Check out Action Lab Entertainment's Northstars!

(Action Lab Danger Zone has some Adult Christmasy comics. You can check them out here.)

Northstars Vol. 1: Welcome to Snowville HC

November 6, 2018

Writer(s): Jim & Haigen Shelley
Artist Name(s): Anna Liisa Jones
Cover Artist(s): Anna Liisa Jones
Age Range: 9 - 12 years

Grade Level: 1 - 2

Series: Northstars (Book 1)
Hardcover: 48 pages

Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment

Join us for the magical adventures of Holly, the daughter of Santa Claus, and Frostina, a Yeti Princess, as they explore the mystical wonders of the land of Polaris. In this first volume in a series of oversized keepsake hardcovers, Holly and Frostina journey to the subterranean city of Undertown to investigate trouble in Troggie Town. There is an evil force scheming right below Snowville, and it threatens Chrishe Gryla!

Northstars Vol. 2: Yeti Wedding!
Writer(s): Jim & Haigen Shelley
Artist Name(s): Anna Liisa Jones
Cover Artist(s): Anna Liisa Jones
Age Range: 9 - 12 years
Grade Level: 1 - 2
Series: Northstars (Book 2)
47 pages
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment
Princess Frostina cordially invites you to a royal Yeti Wedding! Join Santa, Mrs. Claus and their daughter Holly as they journey to the wintry kingdom of Yetisburg for the wedding of Frostina's aunt Brrronica. It's sure to be a grand affair... as long as Holly and Frostina can find a lost wedding ring, get a cake, decorate the chapel and make a bouquet, all while avoiding the mysterious chilly giantess, The Gryla!

ComiXology

Comics writer Jeremy Whitley's insightful twitter post about buying comics for your kids

Jeremy Whitley recently posted on twitter his observations about comics and young boys and girls. I thought it was worth sharing.

https://twitter.com/jrome58/status/1069063909380890624

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58

Hey comics twitter, can we talk a moment? I do a lot of talking about how much the comics world has changed in the time I've been doing Princeless and how many excited girls I have come to my table. But there is one deeply screwed up thing that hasn't changed: how you treat boys

7:01 PM - 1 Dec 2018

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   Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1
   
   I am much more likely to get a supportive parent (mother or father) that picks up Princeless and gets it for their daughter than I am a parent that gets one for their son. At one point, I thought this was not big deal, but then it started to become a patter with books I write
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Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

Princeless, Raven, Wasp, and oh my god does this happen with My Little Ponies. Rather than parents listening to what the son wants, they push their sons toward super hero stuff. Male led punching oriented superhero stuff. Not that this stuff is bad, Hulk vs Thor is on my table

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Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

But I frequently have boys come to my table, pick up a copy of Princeless or Wasp or Raven and flip through the thing, ask me questions, and then bring back a parent. Some parents go for it, but a surprising number of parents react negatively to the idea of a boy with a girl book

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Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

Best case, they gently nudge them toward the thing they think he "should" be reading. If it doesn't work, then they relent and buy what he wants. But I have regularly had parents take or push books out of kids hands, put them down and walk off because of the type of book

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

I understand that it's a con and you can't buy everything kids want, but I'm talking about parents who are on board until they see the girls in action on the front of these books. I regularly have parents point at pony stuff on the table and mock kids about whether they like it

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

And that shit is harmful in ways that are obvious and ways that aren't. You're pushing your sons into boxes that are just as closed as the ones that some of you recognize are bad for your daughters - that goes both ways, but the insidious thing is actually this:

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

When boys don't read stories with strong, smart, or otherwise incredibly women, it seeps into their brains that these women don't exist. When they are not taught that they can look up to women, they don't. This is poisonous to society.

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Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

Just like we want girls and children of color to see themselves and know that they can be anything the want, we need those boys to know that girls can be heroes too - so that they can recognize that potential in real women.

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

Not being able to see girls as equals starts at a really young age and when you don't make sure that your son has books with female protagonists and heroes, you are affecting how they see the gender of heroics.

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

White boys aren't born only seeing white boys as equals, that's a thing this racist society reinforces in them every day in subtle ways. So if your son wants to read a book about a black princess or girl scientist or a freaking purple unicorn, don't tell them its not for them.

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

Diverse stories are for everyone and everyone benefits when they're shared widely. So maybe buy your son a princess, it'll be good for them.

Jeremy Whitley‏ @jrome58 Dec 1

If you're reading this thread and you don't know what Princeless is, who I am, or you now need a comic with a black princess to buy your son: here's your next thing to check out:

Princeless: Book 1 - Save Yourself (Princeless Vol. 1)
by Jeremy Whitley (Author), M. Goodwin (illustrator)
May 16, 2012
Collects Princeless #1-4:
128 pages
Publisher: Action Lab
Collects Princeless #1-4:
Collecting the first storyline of the critically acclaimed series, follow the adventures of Princess Adrienne, a princess who's tired of waiting to be rescued. Along with her guardian dragon, Sparky, they begin their own quest in an all-ages action adventure designed specifically for those who are tired of waiting to be rescued -- and who are ready to save themselves.

About the Creator:
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About A WRITER OF COMIC BOOKS AND OTHER MEDIA.
He is the writer/co-creator of the original series “Princeless", “The Order of Dagonet", and “Illegal". He has also done work for hire for companies such as IDW Publishing on the properties “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", “My Little Pony: Friends Forever" and “Courage the Cowardly Dog".