| Heya <<First Name>>,
Every three months or so I like to check in and remind you that you can read all our books for free.
This month, I’ve got two new ones to share. 🙂
“Moldylocks and the Bear” is a middle-reader novel (300+ pages!) that retells “Goldilocks” from the perspective of a misfit zombie girl.
And “Jack Jenk Shouts Love” is about a sixth-grade football star who gets a homework assignment one day that changes his life, and the lives of many others.
And if you’ve already read all our books, we have an AMAZING book-recommendations page with more than 300 titles. Check it out.
Happy reading!
Jeff and Bob …
… who believe that reading with kids can change the world for the better
The one with a zombie, a bear, and a bit of musical theater
 Summary: Misfit zombie girl Moldylocks LaMort has lost her roar. And she only has a week to find it if she’s going to win the lead role in the town musical. To make things worse, Jeminy Stinkpit will stop at nothing to win. Moldy’s best hope is to train with the new kid—IF she can trust him. He is, after all, a bear.
Style: Irreverently zombified Grimm.
Perfect for: Teaching children life lessons AND grossing them out (in the best way).
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with a linebacker who does something tougher than football
Summary: For sixth-grader Jack Jenk, football is life. But when his teacher tells her students to solve a problem they see on the news, Jack decides to take a risk and do something even tougher than football.
But he just might change the world.
Style: A short chapter book about sticking up for the less fortunate, with football references.
Perfect for: America.
Click the picture for the PDF.
The one with a zombie, a haggis, and a Jimmy Buffet Easter egg
 Summary: Scarlet Bone is a zombie who’s just turned 13 and her “gift” from her parents is not the oh-so-fashionable cape she craves, but a job to do! So begins an adventure that will see Scarlet gain friends, make enemies, meet a stylish wolf, and take a journey to her grandma’s house for an encounter with something really scary: growing up.
Style: Irreverently zombified Grimm.
Perfect for: Teaching children life lessons AND grossing them out (in the best way).
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one where we anagram “Albuquerque” (and 300 other places)
 Summary: America is a land of anagrams — like RHINO SADDLE (“Rhode Island”), LET’S EAT (“Seattle”), and TERRIFIED OF PETS (“Petrified Forest”). Some are surprising, some are sublime, and some are just silly. But when you put them all together, you start to see the country in a whole new way.
Style: A road atlas run through a word blender.
Perfect for: Keeping road trips lively … or teaching state capitals to the geography-averse.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with gratitude for underloved things, like awkward people’s awkward hugs
 Summary: “Messy Blessings” is a celebration of the uncute and underloved things in the world. It’s also about how great life feels when you realize just how much there is to be thankful for. Like morning breath and awkward hugs and laughing till you fart.
Style: Irreverent, heartfelt rhymes.
Perfect for: Practicing gratitude and silliness at the same time.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with a poem about an adorable maggot
 Summary: Here’s to the axolotls, the jerboas, and the yapoks! “Ooh Odd Zoo” is a delightful, irreverent ABC book about the oddballs of the animal kingdom.
Style: Dr. Seuss meets Shel Silverstein.
Perfect for: People who love odd animals, irreverence, and made-up words, like “fartle.” So … everybody, basically.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with the meandering fox
 Summary: Did you know there was another animal in the race between Tortoise and Hare? It was Fox.
In the old days, Foxes were known for one thing: going in straight lines.
But this fox was different — she couldn’t stop meandering.
Style: Longer Aesop.
Perfect for: Embracing detours.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one where the words ARE the pictures
 Summary: Balloons. … Trapeze. … Bookshelf. … Accordion Bus. …
They’re words you’ve seen all your life. Are you ready to see them in an entirely new way?
Style: Words that look like the things they describe.
Perfect for: Anyone who loved the book “CDB” as a kid.
Or people who love their books in black-and-white.
Or minimalists.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The bedtime story with zombies
 Summary: Bedtime is undead-time.
This irreverent, warm-hearted, slightly gross story will (hopefully) have your kids giggling, saying “eww,” and then asking you to read it again.
Style: Edward Gorey does “Goodnight Moon.”
Perfect for: Any kid with a slightly macabre sense of humor. Also: any grownup who can’t read another Margaret Wise Brown book tonight.
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with the cool-grandmother protagonist
 Summary: Life was peaceful on the Island of Slippery Souls until greedy King Clench built a machine to gather them all up. Now, only one person can stop his terrible plan, a woman who would really rather be gardening.
Style: Irreverent fantasy.
Perfect for: Kids who like irreverent fantasy chapter books. And cool grandmothers.
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The sad one with the great illustrations
 Summary: From the time they were small, Po and Esperanza were best friends. But then something happened that wasn’t supposed to, something that changed Po’s life. This is the story of how you can get lost, and then get found again if you don’t lose hope.
Style: Melancholy parable.
Perfect for: People trying to carry on after a loss. (To be honest, there’s not much of a market for this book, but it’s beautifully illustrated and I’m really proud of it.)
Click the picture for the PDF, or buy it on Amazon.
The one with all the U’s
 Summary: Too long unsung, it’s time U got what U deserved: a book all its own. So let’s celebrate used unicycles, unforgettable underwear, ugly unicorns, and lots more! Let’s celebrate U, the alphabet’s ultimate underdog. U will be glad you did.
Style: Super-simple picture book.
Perfect for: Valentine’s Day.
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