So the holidays are quickly approaching and a week or so before they arrive you may suddenly find yourself in a couple possible scenarios.

Scenario one: Your kids have been home on Christmas break for three whole days and you’re trying to finish up your Christmas preparations, but they are bored … and telling you so every 5 seconds.

Scenario two: You are in desperate need of some creative gift ideas for the children on your list and don’t want to even think about looking at another toy.

What if I were to tell you that I have a great idea?? I know you’d just love me to death right?  Well here’s one of the best ideas I’ve found yet!

Recently we were sent three Toon Books for young readers.  These great books combine a child’s love of comics into stories that are good for them to read and  bound in a colorful and creative hard back book for young readers. After all, you don’t often hear the words “literary standards” or “controlled vocabulary” in reference to comic books, but like i said these are not your ordinary comic book!

These great books, although intended for early readers (K-2) these are even fun to read to preschoolers who enjoy the creative stories and vivid pictures.  Here’s a peek at the latest three books from Toon Books.

Stinky by Eleanor Davis is possibly the all-around favorite, especially for our younger three!  The story is super cute and the pictures help to perfectly present the story to youngsters!  The story of a little monster who lives in a swamp and likes anything and everything that’s mucky and gross but is terrified of people.  Enter a little boy with a red hat who loves Stinky’s swamp.  As the story unfolds young children are captivated.

Jack and the Box by Art Spiegelman was also very popular among the 5 and under crowd.  Even our 2 year olds got into that story and the older boys truly enjoyed reading it to them with all the interesting humor throughout the book.  In this story that is a twist on a classic children’s toy, Jack the bunny gets a Box that a toy lives in.  Young readers enjoy following the silliness and crazy anics of Jack’s box and all it’s interesting contents.

MO and JO: Fighting Together Forever by Dean Haspiel and Jay Lynch was by far the favorite for the older crowd, especially my 9 and 10 year old.  Telling the tale of sibling superheroes, this story depicts the not-so-uncommon sibling rivalries and arguments, but on a little more … ummm …. shall we say “super” level.  These two simply cannot stop fighting.  As they learn to work together to save their town, young readers are learning several lessons as well.

Before I let you go though, I want to show you one of the page layouts of Stinky!  This gives you an excellent idea of the great pictures and stories these books contain.

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