A full-color Easter storybook featuring cards, stickers, and everyone's favorite feline: Grumpy Cat!
Chocolate bunnies? Meh. Easter baskets? No way. Grumpy Cat is not excited about Easter in this storybook featuring all-new, full-color art, plus cards and over 30 stickers! This is perfect for boys and girls ages 3 to 7.
I was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, Queens, and the Bronx. As a New York kid, I remember riding graffiti-covered subways and hearing hip-hop blaring from parks and passing cars on the street. I loved my city. It was always buzzing with activity and different things for kids to see and do.
But I also loved to just sit and read. It started with daily comic strips like Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Then I discovered Mad Magazine and superhero comics like Batman, Spider-Man and Black Panther. These stories dealt with heroes and villains, innocence and guilt, freedom and justice. I became interested in justice and the legal system and was encouraged to become a lawyer. I had enjoyed working with kids as a counselor at a summer day camp, so I also thought about being a teacher. But after graduating from college, I knew that being a lawyer or a teacher just wasn’t right for me.
I found a temp job at DC Comics in midtown Manhattan. I answered phones, sorted mail, and did other small jobs. It wasn’t creative work, but I met cool people and got lots of free comics. That led to a full-time job in the Editorial Department. I went from reading comic books for fun, to working with legends in the comic book industry. Before long, I moved from DC Comics to Random House Children’s Books, where I’ve worked on a wide variety of Disney and Nickelodeon books over the last twenty years.
I’ve also written several Little Golden Books, including Black Panther, The Amazing Spider-Man, Falcon, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, I Am Captain Kirk and Too Many Tribbles! as well as My Little Golden Book about Jackie Robinson, Football with Dad and Soccer with Mom.
I always loved Grumpy, but I also always wanted Pokey to get more attention, and in this book he's a main character!!
I like holidays well enough, but as someone who's more of a sour Grumpy on a regular basis and who knows a few sunshiny Pokeys, this was really amusing to me. And I just loved seeing Pokey running around having the time of his life. And that chick suit! Too cute!
The unicorn seemed pretty random (even though I love unicorns) and I personally didn't care for the art style used on the animals, but the colors were vibrant and there were cupcakes, so. Thumbs up.
This was rebound for library use, so I wish I'd gotten to see the cards and stickers!