Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff is a graphic novel about an alternate 19th century, where an adventuress takes a new friend and a flying boat to rob a Sultan (available August 27, 2013). In the late 19th century, an honest young janissary named Selim serves in the court of a Turkish…
The zoo located in the People's Park of Luohe, in the province of Henan China had attempted something that was so cartoon, it could very well have been an episode of Scooby Doo. Almost. The State Run newspaper, the Beijing Youth Daily reports that a customer named Liu wanted to show her son the different…
The best way to review a children’s book is to take it to the kids themselves! Blogger Brian Greene asked his daughter Violet to review the graphic novel Revenge of the Lizard Club by Thea Stilton (available August 20, 2013). Here’s what she had to say (with a little help from her dad). I loved…
Now let’s be clear what I mean by “Video Games” here. I’m not talking about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) like World of Warcraft. For me, its the MM part of that equation that’s the problem. All those other people. God. What a nightmare. And Call of Duty? No thanks. The learning curve on…
We love a good investigation. Whether it is by some brilliant consulting detective like Sherlock Holmes or a plucky, slightly unfortunate reporter like Kolchak. As long as there is a mystery to investigate, we are there. But what happens when these investigative forces butt heads? What happens when the World's Best Investigative Reporter comes up…
And if there's one thing that makes us happy it's you know that—ooh!—there's gonna be fi-iiiire-works! Enjoy the holiday!
Bad Machinery: The Case of the Team Spirit by John Allison is the first volume in the web comic about the middle grade sleuths of Griswald's Grammar School in Tackleford, England (available July 3, 2013). This volume collects the first story arc of John Allison’s acclaimed web series, Bad Machinery. It follows the exploits of…
Recently, from the list of nominees for the Carnegie Award for children's fiction and the Kate Greenaway Award for children's illustrated books, we narrowed down our shortlist even further, to just those titles for mysteriously-minded (even horror-loving) kids. From among our picks, the Carnegie winner is Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon (illustrations by Julian Crouch),…
Justified's Raylan Givens is about to be a parent. Every person takes on parenting in different ways and we're sure that'll be no different once there's a giggling baby Givens out there. But do you think this Baby Hjölster (which doesn't seem very practical we might say) will feature on the Givens's baby registery? Unfortunately,…
Francesca Pitcher of the UK’s North Star Cakes is a very talented sculptor and baker, but more than that, a very generous mom. We know this, because she faced her own deep fear of snakes, using a half-dozen sponge cakes and white chocolate fondant to craft this Amelanistic Burmese python, the real version being one…
