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\nBy Frank Cammuso & Jay Lynch (Toon Books\/Raw Junior)
\nISBN: 978-0-9799238-2-1 (HC)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-935179-27-6 (PB)<\/p>\n
Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Colourful and Captivating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n If you give them a chance and the right material, kids love to read. Happily, these days there’s a grand renaissance of books for the next generation to cut their milk-teeth on, and thanks to the dedication of folk like David Fickling Books (and their wonderful comic The Phoenix) in Britain and Toon Books\/Raw Junior in the USA, plenty of avenues for youngsters to grow up reading comics too\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n This one comes courtesy of award-winning political cartoonist Frank Cammuso (also the creator of Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective<\/strong>) who joins here with legendary industry giant Jay Lynch (Mad<\/strong>, Bijou Funnies<\/strong>, Phoebe and the Pigeon People<\/strong>, Nard ‘n’ Pat<\/strong>, Wacky Packages<\/strong>, Garbage Pail Kids<\/strong>) to relate a boisterous and visually flamboyant\u00c2\u00a0 yarn of foolish enthusiasm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Otto was a ginger cat and utterly obsessed. He always said – long and loud and often – that orange is ‘My Favorite Colour’<\/em>. He proclaimed it in verse and through dance and even had a song about the best hue in the world. That’s why his Aunt Sally Lee<\/em> sent him an old dusty lamp she found in a store. It was pretty dusty and banged up, but beneath the grime, it gleamed orange\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Otto gave the old a thorough dusting and was amazed to see a gigantic blue genie offering him one wish. Otto had no doubts what it should be\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Opening the door he found the entire world painted in shades of the greatest colour of all. He couldn’t wait for winter when he could make orange snowmen!<\/p>\n Sadly, he soon started seeing the downside and learned to ‘Be Careful What You Wish For!’<\/em> The roads were more dangerous, people were hard to recognise and even Otto couldn’t stomach orange lamb chops with orange mashed potatoes and orange spinach!<\/p>\n Knowing he had to turn things back, Otto tried to find the lamp but it was difficult to do when all his toys and games were orange too\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n And even when he finally locates the magic artefact there’s still another problem: only one go per owner and the genie says that changing the world back counts as ‘A New Wish’<\/em> and is far from happy to start making changes now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Aimed at the five-and-over age-range, this splendidly child-sized (152 x126 mm) tome is a gloriously evocative, sleekly exciting kid-friendly caper, produced in 32-page, full-colour landscape format and the kind of illustrated extravaganza kids of all ages will adore \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and probably fight over\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Toon Books\/Raw Junior<\/strong> was founded by Art Spiegelman and Fran\u00c3\u00a7oise Mouly to provide high-quality comics stories to entice pre-schoolers and beginning readers into a life-long relationship with graphic narrative and traditional reading.<\/p>\n With a select pantheon of creators they have produced many brilliant books sub-divided into First Comic for brand new readers (Level 1), (Easy-to-Read for Emerging Readers Level 2) and Chapter Books for Advanced Beginners (Level 3).<\/p>\n The company supports publications with on-line tools at TOON-BOOKS.com, offering interactive audio-versions read by the authors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in a multitude of languages \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cartoon maker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d facility which allows readers to become writers of their own adventures. By Frank Cammuso & Jay Lynch (Toon Books\/Raw Junior) ISBN: 978-0-9799238-2-1 (HC)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-935179-27-6 (PB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Colourful and Captivating\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 10\/10 If you give them a chance and the right material, kids love to read. Happily, these days there’s a grand renaissance of books for the next generation to cut their milk-teeth on, and … <\/p>\n
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