#wild rumpus bookstore

[godzilla-reads]

Book Haul from Wild Rumpus Books

I had a great time visiting one of my favorite bookstores today. I’ve been visiting this store since I was a kid, got my cat from here, and love it so much.

Can’t wait to start reading!

#godzilla reads #wild rumpus bookstore #book haul #new books #booklr #reading #reads #book blog #bookish #bookworm #bibliophile #booknerd

[malindalo]

Since the beginning of October, I’ve visited so many great bookstores, not only for events but also to sign stock. Which means you can buy signed copies of A Scatter of Light, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and some of my other books too at many places across the U.S. Some of these bookstores will even ship internationally. And the holidays are coming! I humbly suggest that a signed book (by me) would make a great gift for that girl you want to impress! Here’s where you can get them:

Porter Square Books — This is the only place where you can get personalized copies. All you have to do is add your personalization request (e.g. “To Aria”) in the comments field when you order. Be sure to order from PSB by Dec. 2 if you want a personalization! After that I will go to the store to personalize them.

Signed copies of my books are also available from:

Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, MA)

Belmont Books (Belmont, MA)

The Silver Unicorn Bookstore (Acton, MA)

Wellesley Books (Wellesley, MA)

Strand Book Store (New York, NY)

Yu and Me Books (New York, NY)

Barnes & Noble Union Square (New York, NY)

East City Bookshop (Washington, DC)

Moon Palace Books (Minneapolis, MN)

Wild Rumpus Books (Minneapolis, MN)

Red Balloon Bookshop (St. Paul, MN)

Fabulosa Books (San Francisco, CA)

Eastwind Books (Berkeley, CA)

Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore (Berkeley, CA)

Please note that stock is not guaranteed; please check with each individual bookstore to find out what’s available.

#bookstore #last night at the telegraph club #a scatter of light

[literaticat]

Hi Jennifer, In response to a recent question about Russian folk/fairytale content in a children’s novel, you mentioned that apart from that specific content, folk/fairytales are generally a bit tough to sell. Is it because the market is saturated, or do you see another reason? I believe that children still like those kinds of stories, but maybe I’m wrong? Thank you.

When I was a kid in the 1900's, "Folk Tales" were an extremely popular and thriving subsection of Children's Books. They won lots of awards. (Some were fantastic. Probably all of them were well-intentioned. Many of them were seriously racist/problematic, actually!)

The thing about them is, as picture books, they are usually REALLY long and wordy and old-fashioned compared to much of what is popular today, and that TYPE of book (lengthy "storybooks" about sometimes real/sometimes entirely made-up but with a facade of "real" cultural legends) are just... not a thing anymore. You can still find them in the picture book classics section, or at the library, or at *particularly* deeply stocked bookstores (Wild Rumpus had a big folklore section last time I went!) -- but that KIND of book is really not published anymore. So if you go in calling your thing a "folk tale" it automatically raises red flags, such as: "this will be long. this will be old-fashioned. this might be racist."

There are still definitely 'riffs' on fairy tales (Three Little Narwhals or Little Rainbow Riding Hood are two made up examples) -- but they'd be written in a much shorter, punchier way, and they feel "modern" compared to those old-fashioned folk tales of my youth. So if you're writing one of those kinds of picture books, OK - just make sure it's VERY FUN and SHORT!

Basically: Unless you are bringing something astonishing to the table, I'd personally shy away from writing a straight-up, not-modernized or reimagined version of a fairy/folktale for any age range. (LOTS of them already exist!)

As for books that have a fairytale/folktale inspiration, well, there are MANY middle grade / YA books have a sort of "fractured fairy tale" element (reimagining Cinderella as, say, a cyborg or a space princess or a mermaid or a girl at the mall or whatever!) -- to the point where it's a bit cliche and editors sort of roll their eyes maybe, but hey, those books will always exist, nothing wrong with that. I would just perhaps not hinge my entire pitch on the idea of the 'reimagined fairy tale' bc it sounds kinda cheesy; instead I'd say what is great about THIS BOOK and maybe mention the Inspo as an aside, or just let it speak for itself. The exception might be if it is taking inspiration from a lesser-known / under-represented cultural tradition and it seems like it NEEDS to be said.

(Again, I'm not saying "never write a book that has some folk tale / fairy tale as its inspiration!" -- I'm saying, don't PITCH it like "oh this is based on Cinderella" and that's the only thing about it -- that's not an interesting enough hook, because there are ten bajillion Cinderella reboots already, and we can probably already tell it's based on Cinderella. What ELSE does it have going for it? Or how is this taking the idea of Cinderella and really turning it inside out / bringing something new and awesome to the table?)

[angelosurmelis]

#wild rumpus bookstore #dontblendin #thedangerousartofblendingin #lgbt books #lgbt #lgbtq #YAReads #gay love story #harpercollins #balzerandbray

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Wild Rumpus Books, Minneapolis

#minneapolis #minnesota #bookstore #cats #books #wild rumpus

[abramsbooks]

Preorder Dune: The Graphic Novel and Receive an Exclusive Print!

Preorder your copy of Dune: The Graphic Novel from any of the booksellers below and receive an exclusive 8x10 print designed by Bill Sienkiewicz! After-Words Bookstore (Chicago, IL) Anderson’s Bookshops (Naperville, IL) Arcadia Books (Spring Green, WI) Ballast Book Company (Bremerton, WA) Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT) Bay Books (Sutton’s Bay, MI) Bethany Beach Books (Bethany Beach, DE) The Book Dragon Shop (Staunton, VA) The Book Nook (Ludlow, VT) The Book Seller (Grass Valley, CA) BookBar (Denver, CO) Bookbug (Kalamazoo, MI) Bookends & Beginnings (Evanston, IL) Bookie’s (Chicago, IL) Bookmiser (Marietta, GA) BookPeople (Austin, TX) Books Inc (Berkeley, CA) Bookshop West Portal (San Francisco, CA) The Briar Patch (Bangor, ME) Brilliant Books (Traverse City, MI) Broadway Books (Portland, OR) Byrd’s Books (Bethel, CT) Capital Books (Sacramento, CA) Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY) Chapter 2 Books (Hudson, WI) Children’s Book World (Los Angeles, CA) Comic Book College (Minneapolis, MN) Copperfield’s Books (California) Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT) E. Shaver Booksellers (Savannah, GA) Eagle Harbor Book Co. (Bainbridge Island, WA) East End Books (Provincetown, MA) Epilogue Books (Rockford, MI) Hearthfire Books and Treats (Evergreen, CO) Hicklebee’s (San Jose, CA) Ink Spell Books (Half Moon Bay, CA) Inklings Bookshop (Rushland, PA) Katy Budget Books (Houston, TX) Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens, NY) Liberty Bay Books (Poulsbo, WA) Little City Books (Hoboken, NJ) Loganberry Books (Cleveland, OH) Lost City Books (Washington, DC) Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe (Asheville, NC) Misty River Books (British Columbia, Canada) Napa Bookmine (Napa, CA) The Novel Neighbor (St. Louis, MO) Orinda Books (Orinda, CA) Page 2 Books (Seattle, WA) Phoenix Books (Burlington, VT) The Printed Garden Booksellers (Sandy, UT) Read Between the Lynes (Woodstock, IL) Rediscovered Books (Caldwell, ID) Rivendell Bookstore (Abilene, KS) The River’s End Bookstore (Oswego, NY) Sassafras on Sutton (Black Mountain, NC) Schuler Books + Nicola’s Books (Ann Arbor, MI) Showcase Comics and Games (Bryn Mawr, PA) Source Booksellers (Detroit, MI) Skylark Bookshop (Columbia, MO) Split Rock Books (Cold Spring, NY) The Strand (New York, NY) Terrace Books (Brooklyn, NY) Third Place Books (Seattle, WA) The Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough, NH) Tombolo Books (St. Petersburg, FL) Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop (New Orleans, LA) Watchung Booksellers (Montclair, NJ) Whitelam Books (Reading, MA) Wild Rumpus (Minneapolis, MN) Words Matter Bookstore (Pitman, NJ) Writer’s Block Bookstore (Winter Park, FL)

#preorder #dune film #dune book #dune #dunegraphicnovel #Abrams #abrams comics

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The Wild Rumpus, bookstore for kids, in MN. Even the front door is kid-size. Adults have to duck down. 

There are all sorts of different animals in residence. 

As a long-time children’s librarian, I love this place!

https://www.wildrumpusbooks.com/

#children's book store #unique book stores #specialty book store #kids bookstore

[laughingatmynightmare]

What Made Me Smile This Week:

Sunday: From bed this morning, I made my way straight to the screened-in sun porch, where I set up camp with a good book and a cup of coffee, which I enjoyed while rain fell heavily all around me. It made me smile.

Monday: Hannah and her mom and I are in the midst of binge-watching Orange Is The New Black in preparation for the next season. I’m pretty sure we watched 35 episodes tonight, which made me smile.

Tuesday: The gel packs in my wheelchair’s seat unexpectedly burst a few weeks ago, which I didn’t notice until the last few days, when my buttbutt became increasingly sore. I’ve been a grumpy camper for most of today, as we have tried to figure out makeshift solutions until I can get a new seat, so there were not very many smiles. A chocolate milkshake from the Mall of America helped a tiny bit, and I think a smile may have even squeaked its way out.

Wednesday: Happy 4th of July! We had a big family gathering today, and I think I speak for everyone in attendance when I say that the highlight of the party was most definitely the Italian pasta salad (made with orzo instead of chewier noodles) invented and prepared by me and Hannah. It made everyone smile.

Thursday: I finally got to visit Wild Rumpus! This legendary bookstore is only a few blocks from our house in Minneapolis, but I kept forgetting to check it out. When we arrived, I was dismayed to see a big step at the front entrance, but a smile immediately followed when I noticed a sign pointing towards the accessible entrance. If you’ve never heard of a Wild Rumpus, it’s basically a child’s dream come true, combining live animals and books. They have a freakin’ chicken that walks around freely. It’s amazing, and it made me smile.

Friday: Over 2,500 people argued with on Instagram today about the true color of a tennis ball: green or yellow. Although the evidence may suggest otherwise, I still believe I am correct in thinking that tennis balls are GREEN. Green tennis balls make me smile.

Saturday: I got a haircut! Please tell me I'm pretty, and YOU will be my smile today.

What made you smile this week?

#wmms

[godzilla-reads]

I’ve been on a Jackie Morris kick lately and got her book “The Wild Swans” at The Wild Rumpus Bookstore, a retelling of the folktale with gorgeous paintings.

#godzilla reads #the wild swans #book blog #jackie Morris #folktales #fairy tale retelling #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish

[imrachelcoyne]

Wild Rumpus Bookstore does some pretty terrific pajama bedtime readings live on Facebook. I tuned in for this one last week and the book was touching - about a young girl going to live with her grandmother.

[catiwilliams]

We went to the Wild Rumpus bookstore in Mpls and I think she had a good time. 😻

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

We are missing our pumpkin colored/shaped Manx, Walter Dean! He was last seen last night around 5:00 as we closed. He is tailless, and without a collar, and does not have a microchip. If you came in last evening with a stroller, please double check in your car! He loves to steal stroller rides, and may have snuck out in one, so he could very well be in the neighborhood. Reacts to his name, and loves food.

UPDATE: WALTER WAS FOUND!!

*SIGNAL BOOST* Wild Rumpus Books has lost their cat Walter Dean!

If you have any information, please contact the store at 612-920-5005, or after hours, please email [email protected]. Help us find our friend!!

#minneapolis #minnesota #wild rumpus #signal boost #missing cat #manx #bookstore

[drunkbooksellers]

Ep 14: Paul Constant, Seattle Review of Books

Epigraph 

The Drunk Booksellers get stoned on this 4/20 themed episode with Paul Constant of the Seattle Review of Books.

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Introduction

In which we make pot jokes and get excited about books

We're switching up our intoxicant of choice this episode and getting stoned rather than drunk (mostly). Paul's rocking Mr. Moxey's Mints (of the peppermint/sativa variety). Emma's smoking CBD (not to be confused with William Steig's children's picture book, CDB!). Kim stops talking while stoned—which would make for a really awkward podcast episode—so she's drinking the hoppiest IPA she could find instead. Everyone's a little too high to explain the varieties of weed particularly well, so you should just read David Schmader's Weed: The User's Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana.

Paul's Reading:

Up South by Robert Lashley

The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks

A collection of books from Mount Analogue Press

Manners by Ted Powers

Final Rose by Halie Theoharides (a comic book tone poem about love and loss made up screenshots from The Bachelor)

Reading Through It book club pick: What We Do Now: Standing Up for Your Values in Trump's America, edited by Dennis Johnson

Emma's Reading:

First Position by Melissa Brayden (thanks to a recommendation from our episode with The Ripped Bodice)

Giant Days 4 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Lissa Treiman, Liz Fleming, and Whitney Cogar

All the Lives I Want: Essays about My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey (thanks to a recommendation from our episode with Amy Stephenson)

Kim's Reading:

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power by Joseph Turow 

Forthcoming Titles We're Excited For:

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie (out June 13)

Love and Trouble: a Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer (out May 9)

also mentioned Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris (out May 30)

Hunger: a Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (out June 13)

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood (out May 2)

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (out April 25)

Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (out April 18)

Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki (out May 9)

Isadora by Amelia Gray (out May 23)

Dreaming the Beatles: the Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield (out April 25)

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J Sollee (out June 13)

Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea (out June 13)

The Perfect Mix: Everything I Know about Leadership I Learned as a Bartender by Helen Rothberg (out June 20)

Chapter I [18:50]

In which we learn what The Seattle Review of Books is, talk about book reviews as a meta art form, and get advice on promoting diversity and being a safe, welcoming place for people who aren't white bros

The Seattle Review of Books is a book news, review, and interviews site. This isn't consumer reports, with a thumbs up or down on each title; each review aims to have a conversation with the book. It's a site that aims to look like your bookshelf, without genre classification.

Emma & Kim don't quite understand Paul's assertion that people don't organize their bookshelves, but we roll with it.

SRB makes all their money through a single sponsor (which changes each week). If you're interested in their sponsorship program, you can learn more here.

Paul wants to promote young, new writers and help them build up their clip file. So you should probably pitch him with your brilliant, bookish ideas. Email submissions@seattlereviewofbooks or fill in the contact form on their about page.

Emma particularly loves the Help Desk by Cienna Madrid. Ask Cienna an awkward book-related question at [email protected].

Being a couple of white guys, Paul and his co-founder Martin McClellan are extremely concerned with diverse representation. You can learn more about how SRB encourages diversity in both the books they review and the reviewers they publish on their about page (or by listening to this episode...). But you should know right off the bat, they are not here to promote the new Franzen novel and they will not pander to bros. 

Chapter II [33:10]

In which we talk about life in the US post-election, say something negative about a book, and discuss Paul's past (and current) life as a bookseller

Reading Through It is a post-election book club hosted by Seattle Review of Books, the Seattle Weekly, and Third Place Books Seward Park. They meet the first Wednesday of every month.

On our post-election world, Paul Constant says: "This is what books were made for. Books are engines of empathy... the only way to do a deep-dive into an issue. It's our stored knowledge... This is the moment for books."

The next Reading Through It book group pick is The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt. They'll be meeting Wednesday May 3rd at Third Place Books Seward Park.

Read Paul's article on his time at Borders: Books Without Borders: My Life at the World's Dumbest Bookstore Chain

Though he's not technically a bookseller anymore, Paul is still "on team books." Keep an eye out for our "I'm On Team Books" t-shirts, which may or may not be a thing we sell one day.

Chapter III [43:20]

In which Paul is better at explaining our questions than stoned Emma is at asking them, Emma and Kim give Paul major side-eye due to his bookseller confession, and Emma continues to push Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Desert Island Pick (what would you read that you never had the time to read before): The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro (beginning with The Path to Power)

We couldn't find a video of the following clip of Caro on the Colbert Report, so we'll just leave you this series of gifs to explain why you, too, should consider bringing an epic five-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson as your desert beach read:

You're welcome. Now, back to your regularly scheduled show notes. 

Station Eleven Picks (the books to preserve for society) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (everything you need to know about living in a society) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (everything you need to know about life and how it doesn’t always work out the way you want, but you should live it anyway)

Read Paul's essay about The Scarlet Letter, originally written for Scarecrow Video.

Wild Pick (traveling is about observing things... soaking everything in) We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live by Joan Didion ("because she is the greatest observer on the planet and I would want to be like her when I was traveling")

Bookseller Confession  Once again, we have a guest who hasn't read Harry Potter. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Paul also hasn't read Lord of the Rings and Kim proceeds to side-eye him from across the city.

(In case you were wondering, the title of the direct link to this gif is "wtf-i-cant-even-you-are-stupid." Just sayin'.)

Emma, naturally, tries to convert Paul to fantasy w/ an Uprooted recommendation because "nobody doesn't like it." Paul commits to reading it in order to prove her wrong.

Go-To Handsell  Fup by Jim Dodge Paul saved the book from going out of print and—arguably more importantly—he handsold a copy to Allison Hannigan.

Impossible Handsell  Paradise by AL Kennedy (and everything by AL Kennedy)

Book for Booksellers Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich

Favorite Bookstores Elliott Bay Ada’s Technical Books Third Place Ravenna

Favorite Literary Media

Not to brag, but, we’re the only podcast Paul listens to.

The Rumpus Lit Hub Book Forum Electric Literature Shelf Awareness

Epilogue

In which we tell you where to find us on the Internets

You can find Paul on:

Twitter

Seattle Review of Books is also on Twitter

Seattlereviewofbooks.com

You can find us on:

Twitter at @drunkbookseller

Litsy at @drunkbooksellers

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Email

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Emma tweets @thebibliot and writes bookish things for Book Riot.

Kim tweets occasionally from @finaleofseem, but don’t expect too much 'cause she saves all of the interesting (ie. book-related) shizzle for Drunk Booksellers.

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[laughingatmynightmare]

What Made Me Smile This Week: Sunday: Human kindness made me smile today. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out with suggestions and contacts to help me resolve my current seating dilemma. Your generosity is beautiful, and it makes me feel like I have “family” across this entire country who support me in amazing ways. Monday: Pasta with fresh roasted cherry tomatoes and garlic made me smile and eat way too much today. Tuesday: I had a great meeting with the people at Wild Rumpus children’s bookstore in Minneapolis and they asked me to do a reading of Not So Different in September! I’ll announce more details soon. It made me smile! Wednesday: I still have all ten toes which makes me smile. Sometimes I like to double check just to make sure. Thursday: My new insurance provider requires that I resubmit for coverage of Spinraza, the drug that stops the progression of my disease. Today, I did a strength test at Gillette Children’s (and some adults) Hospital. Insurance nonsense is never fun, but making strides towards having Spinraza coverage again makes me smile. Friday: A waitress at Olive Garden asked the people I was with if I needed a kids menu. That made me laugh and smile. Saturday: Hannah, her mom, and I got caught in the Mother of All Downpours while seeing an outdoor theatre performance in St. Louis. Luckily, we had planned ahead by bringing a few umbrellas and a poncho for me. Unluckily, it was like trying to keep ourselves dry while being submerged in the ocean. It was quite and adventure though, and a memory that will be making us smile for a long time. What made you smile this week?

#wmms

[stanowarb2]

LET THE WILD GRUMPUS START!

Commissioned artist: Bam

It’s never too early to start planning your Summerween costumes!

And it’s never inappropriate to wear them in the off season!

Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” was first published in April 1963.  According to canon ages, Ford and Stan might have been at the top end of the target demographic.  Can you imagine pre-teen Stan standing on the top bunk flexing his biceps shouting, “Let the WILD RUMPUS START!!!”

CLICK “KEEP READING” for more backstory!

Or even better, can you imagine pre-teen Ford doing the same, with Stan’s encouragement, trying to get Ford to come out of his shell?

It’s the kind of callback-refrain that they might have used as they grew into their teen years.  It might even be something that Stan says to Ford after the Science Fair, in a desperate attempt to get his beloved brother to see through his rage and find forgiveness in his heart.

Then ten years later, after Stan has responded to the postcard and is standing on the front porch, pausing for a few deep breaths before knocking on the door and reuniting with his brother, maybe Stan decides that the first thing he’ll say to him is, “Let the wild rumpus start!” But that plan is forgotten when the door opens and he’s greeted with a crossbow in his face.

Over the next thirty years, Stan likely saw it on the shelves in bookstores, stopped in front of the movie theater when the Spike Jonze film version came to town in 2009.  He might have stood under the flashing lights of the marquee and moved his fingers in his pocket across the leather of his wallet, contemplating whether he had the strength to get through the movie without bursting into tears.

Then, after Stan saved the world at the expense of all his memories, maybe as Ford held him as tight as he could he put his lips to Stan’s ear and said, over and over, “Let the wild rumpus start; let the wild rumpus start...” hoping against hope that it would trigger the single memory that would bring him back.

And so, by the following Summerween, Ford and Stan know EXACTLY what they’ll wear for costumes.  And I’d be willing to bet they dropped hints for Dipper and Mabel in their emails, and teased them with tiny glimpses of a claw or a tail during their video calls.  Can’t you see Stan in the frame of a FaceTime chat pretending to be terrified by the appearance of something that’s just off screen -- and it’s Ford making hilarious growling faces?

News spreads around town about the epic costumes that will be debuted at the Mystery Shack Summerween Party, and the entire population of Gravity Falls shows up.  Wendy and Soos aren’t letting Ford and Stan come out of the Shack to meet their public because they’ve just gotten the text from Dipper and Mabel, and they’re in a cab coming up from the bus station.

They hop out of the cab, cut through the crowd, and stand on the porch where Stan had stood -- with a mullet, let’s not forget -- more than thirty years earlier.  The assembled crowd has started chanting, “PINES! PINES! PINES!” but Wendy silences them with a whirling tomahawk she throws over their heads and into the totem pole.  

Soos gives the secret knock, signaling Stan and Ford to exit, and their plan to leap out with roars and vicious poses is stopped short at the sight of the young twins.  

The four stare at each other, then Dipper and Mabel turn to each other with huge smiles, knowing what they’ll do.  

They turn to the crowd and at the top of their lungs they scream in unison...

“LET THE WILD GRUMPUS START!!!”

* * *

Thanks so much to Bam, the magnificent artist who drew this.  It was such a pleasure to work with you!  I’m so grateful!

#gravity falls #where the wild things are #grunkle stan #grunkle ford

[godzilla-reads]

❤️‍🔥 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle and Lian Cho

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

First, there were 100 mighty dragons. Some left to surf. Some flew to Paris. Count them up. Count them down. How many dragons are left?

I kept seeing this book advertised at the children’s bookstore The Wild Rumpus and finally got a copy when I was there yesterday. Oh my lord, this book is great. Not only are all the dragons names Broccoli but one dragon has a very big surprise in the end!

I loved it so much!

#godzilla reads #100 mighty dragons all named broccoli #David larochelle #lian cho #book review #childrens books #childrens literature #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog