Put Vampirina Ballerina on your radar for next Halloween. Written by Anne Marie Pace and illustrated by Le Uyen Pham, this adorable book shows the challenges a vampire faces when trying to become a ballerina.
A vampire must find night classes, find ways to not scare the other dancers with her toothy smile, work on not turning into a bat during the dances, not tripping on her cape. Vampirina has a problem with not being able to see her reflection in the mirror as she practices at the bar.
The pictures are darling. If you have a little dancer in your life who likes Halloween and a bit of the dark side, this is a great book for that child.
Read to a child today even if that child is you.
ReplyDeleteHello Building Lifelong Readers:
I thought you'd might enjoy a free advanced release e-copy of the brand new sci-fi fantasy comedy 11,984. This is not a conventional novel. It contains a lot of creative innovations, including punctuation from the future.
Thousands of years in the future, humanity has finally eradicated war, poverty, and all forms of human suffering. With no problems or unanswered questions remaining in the world, everyone is bored out of their minds, that is until the sun starts putting on a light show, the first warning sign it's getting ready to supernova!
Our heroes from the year 11,984 are your typical family of two mothers, three fathers, a couple of kids, and plenty of robots. Fun-loving Troll, so called because of her giant troll doll hair(They don't have names in the future, or wear clothes) is the world's leading hydrologist/interior decorator, whose plans to retire quickly change when faced with the drought to end all droughts. Bulb, bald head glowing like a lightbulb, is the cranky Minister of Rational Thought. His faith in science is tested by the total collapse of society. Last but not least is Litterbot, the clumsy garbagebot who gets no respect, and whose highest priority--to clean--is frustrated by a world without messes.
As the family works on building an escape spaceship, the sun bombards them in changing colors, which unbeknownst to them causes radiation insanity. The sky colors keep growing stronger, and these totally peaceful people are at each other's throats. It gets so bad their bodies mutate (which helps them work faster) and world computer crashes (forcing them to read primitive paper books, and rely more on Litterbot.) Will they launch before getting smashed to pieces?
My first humor novel, Foxavier and Plinka, was published in 2013, and is also available.
May I email the complete 11,984 manuscript of 75,000 words?
Thank you.
Scott Evans
Scottevansrochester@yahoo.com
15 Savannah St., Rochester NY