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It's a TWO post sorta day, and this second post is no less important than the first...and it in fact contains TWO more reasons to celebrate! WOOT WOOT! So break out the confetti, and grab a cupcake (or two!), because we've got a DOUBLE BOOK BIRTHDAY in the house TOMORROW for author Corey Rosen Schwartz. You may remember the name from her Twinderella release featured here a few years back, or Ninja Red Riding Hood, or Ninja Chicks, or several other titles that have come down the pipe in the mean time, but today, we've got two unique titles. One focuses on friendship, while the other reminds us to check our MOO-ds at the door. Both have fabulous illustrations to entertain the eye and the mind as well, so really...you can't go wrong! Oh, wait a moment...it might help if I actually introduce the titles then, right? Right. Got it. Okay. Without further ado, make room on your shelves for today's choice titles...
by
Corey Rosen Schwartz & Rebecca J. Gomez
Illustrated by
Hilary Leung
9781338236552
Orchard Books
RELEASE DATE: 09/01/20
This is the story of two FAST friends that loved nothing more than to spend their time together speeding here and there, to and fro, near and far...until one day, they go a bit TOO far. I mean their folks told them to stay close and watch the time, but what could possibly go wrong when they were together? A fork in the road and these two friends are headed in the wrong direction, getting Rig and Mack severely off track. The night moves in and the going gets rough, but these two are made of tougher stuff! Despite their worries, regardless of their fears, they never give up. That bright light of their friendship, and a little ingenuity on both their parts, shines like a beacon in the night to get them back together and everything set to right.
So the moral of the story, good friends may be hard to find, but they will always be there for you in the end...and that's something worth SHINING, I mean smiling about!
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by
Corey Rosen Schwartz & Kirsti Call
Illustrated by
Claudia Ranucci
9781499810868
Little Bee Books
RELEASE DATE: 09/01/20
RELEASE DATE: 09/01/20
This is the story of how one little cow took her bad day and turned it around...but not before her BAD MOOOD got the best of her! It reminds us through wordy puns, and utter COW-lamity, that a bad day is really all in how you look at it. Once we decide to not take things so personal, once we establish that it's just something that happened not the way things will always be, once we see clearly that's it's a bad day not a bad life...things start to look up and sometimes we can even see the humor in a situation that previously would have dire COW-sequences on out attitude. Readers will delight in Mootilda's misfortunes, but only to the extent of the funniness that can be found in another's circumstances when it isn't us...teaching a good lesson on empathy to be quite honest. I mean, you can't help but laugh at Mootilda's reactions, but if we place ourselves in her hooves, you can see why her mood went sour.
All in all, a funny story filled to the horns with the COW-tasophies that can happen in life, and a gentle reminder that while things could always be worse, they are bound to get better and that much quicker if we choose to see the silver lining in that cloud of gray.
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Many thanks to author Corey Rosen Schwartz for the ecopies for review. (THANKS!) For more information on the titles above, the author, or the publishers, feel free to check out the links provided above. Two Tough Trucks Get Lost is available tomorrow via Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc...and Mootilda's Bad Mood is also available tomorrow via Little Bee Books, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copies today and SPREAD THE WORD!
Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!
