It's music and laughs galore as Cuphead and Mugman tickle the ivories in this full-color retelling of the "Piano Lesson" from Netflix's hit animated series The Cuphead Show! The Cuphead Show! follows the adventures of two lovable brothers—Cuphead and Mugman—through their unique misadventures! But no matter what the trouble is, they’ve always got one another’s backs. But what happens when Mugman's dream of becoming a great pianist is dashed by an unexpected musical genius? Fans of the Netflix animated series or the video game that inspired it, will love this retelling with full-color images straight from the laugh out loud series! Series Overview: We will continue to expand with two to four new Cuphead titles each year, launching with Screen Comix and Step into Reading in 2022 and continuing with a Little Golden Book and 8x8 Pictureback in Spring 2023.
Cuphead and Mugman make reading fun in one of your favorite episodes of The Cuphead Show! retold in this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader! The Cuphead Show! follows the adventures of two lovable brothers—Cuphead and Mugman—through their unique misadventures! And this time, they'll need each other more than ever, when Cuphead's misbehaving ways land them in jail, and they have concocted an outrageous escape plan! There's only one problem—Mugman likes being in jail!!! This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader is a great was for fans of the animated series to learn to read on their own—and have a good laugh while they do it. Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics for children who are ready to read on their own. Billy Wrecks is a author living in New York. He loves writing about monsters, super heroes, and anything left of center.
The average American child sees about 40,000 televisioncommercials every year. Companies target younger viewers all thetime, selling everything from sugar cereals to minivans, andcross-promotional marketing influences everything from the foodstocked in school vending machines to the characters who appear inchildren’s books. Kids are requesting specific brands as soon asthey can talk. American corporations spend over $15 billion yearlyon marketing to children in an effort to cultivate nagging,insatiable, “cradle-to-grave” consumers. In this shocking and engrossing exposé, psychologist Susan Linnreveals how the marketing industry preys on kids from the daythey’re born, exploiting their vulnerabilities and skewing theirvalues in order to influence what they eat, wear, and play with.This advertising blitz stifles creativity and exacerbates obesity,eating disorders, violence, sexual precocity, and substance abuse.Linn—a mother herself—recognizes that parents alone are no matchfor the mark
Fathers know that doing things with their daughters isimportant. Shared activities build trust and self-esteem, show howmuch dads care, and allow everyone to cut loose and have fun. Buteven fathers who can beat the generation and gender gaps that makethem feel awkward can’t always dream up cool places to go ormutually enjoyable things to do. Like the coach of their favoriteteam, dads need a game plan, and that’s exactly what Joe Kellyprovides in Dads Daughters Togetherness Guide. Appropriate for girls of any age, the guide enables dads to grabtheir daughters by the hand and say “Let’s go…” See how things are made: Take a made-in-America tour andsee how everything from jumbo jets (Boeing) to chocolate kisses(Hershey’s) is produced. Bake a funny cake: She’ll laugh herself silly in thekitchen making Kitty Litter Cake, a German chocolate sheet cakecovered with “cat litter” (dyed, crumbled cookies) and topped withminiature Tootsie Rolls. Take a drive to n
Raise Him Right Women are complicated. Men spend years in marriage trying tofigure out how to love and understand their wives, only to wind upfrustrated and ready to give up. Who better to help a man begin tounderstand a woman than his mother? While you hope and pray foryour son’s future marriage, the time for your powerful influence isnow! Don’t wait for the world to change its morality; let PreparingHim for the Other Woman show you how to shape your son’s characterand teach him how to interpret the heart of a woman. Find ways tomake your home a place of refuge, growth, and peace as you guidehim toward becoming the kind of man who looks to God for guidancein loving his wife well. What Kind of Husband Will Your Son Grow Up to Be? His is a generation of boys who have better relationships withtheir Game Boxes, i-Pods, televisions, and computers than they dowith their families. His understanding of marriage is that it haslittle hope for success, witnessing a fifty percent div
Through this charming story children will become aware of the growing problem of trash polluting the ocean. Fish highlights the issues with a simple and engaging illustrated narrative, and also suggests a solution in the form of recycling. All Finn wants is to catch a nice, tasty fish for his dinner, but no matter how hard he tries all he seems to catch at the end of his fishing line is other people's trash. The longer he spends out on the ocean, the more crazy objects he collects! Finn and his dog Skip go home each day with a full boat, but empty tummies. It isn't long before Finn finds a way to reuse and recycle everything he has collected. Pretty soon he makes enough money to make a tasty dinner every day, and under his care the ocean becomes clean, bright, and full of fish again! Brendan Kearney is a children's book illustrator and author represented by Plum Pudding Illustration ag
The push for students to excel at school and get into the bestcolleges has never been more intense. In this invaluable new book,the bestselling co-author of Raising Cain addressesAmerica’s performance-driven obsession with the accomplishments ofits kids–and provides a deeply humane response. “How was school?” These three words contain a world of desire onthe part of parents to know what their children are learning andexperiencing in school each day. Children may not divulge much, butpsychologist Michael Thompson suggests that the answers are thereif we know how to read the clues and–equally important–if weremember our own school days. School, Thompson reminds us, occupies more waking hours than kidsspend at home; and school is full not just of studies but of humanemotion–excitement, fear, envy, love, anger, sexuality, boredom,competitiveness. Through richly detailed interviews, casehistories, and student e-mail journals, including those of his ownchildren, Thompson illuminates the deeper psyc
