Great stories for Bionicle fans !!
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Both my 8-year-old and myself found this book very enjoyable. It was well-written. Each character has a very distinct personality of its own. [And surely one of them will fit a child's dream hero.] There are balanced mix of excitement, adventure, humor, and values. This book revealed a few facts that was unknown in the previous books, and also provided a glimpse into the upcoming storyline of Metru Nui. Sort of the way the Star Wars episodes were introduced.
This whole Bionicle saga can become one of a child's great inspirations in his life. The core value of the whole story -Unity-Duty-Destiny- is very useful in parenting and raising a child.
We live inThailand, a seemingly so far away place on earth, but still my son got so obsessed with this theme of Lego. I fully support him because I can see value in this whole thing.
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The second I opened this memories flooded back of my adventures in Columbia. As a diehard BioShock fan as well as a figure collector, this Booker DeWitt figure was a must have. His sculpt is quite well made, every detail is on point. There are a few minor paint flaws (a speck of green in his hair from his vest and a spot of light brown on the top of his head) but nothing that is too obtrusive. He has a touch of a lazy eye, from what I can tell that seems to be a trend with NECA figures, or at least the BioShock line, but unless you're a perfectionist like me you most likely won't notice it (no one in my family did). The moral of the story is, this is a must have for any BioShock fan - a love letter if you will to Irrational Games' last Masterpiece. A great addition to any collection.
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This series of children's horror stories was a favorite of my oldest son. He presented me with copies of the books as he was leaving to serve in the Navy. Nostalgia from his childhood. What he remembered the most was the creepy-cool artwork by Stephen Gammell. Imagine my horror when I found out (while I was re-reading the series) that when they reprinted the books as a 30th anniversary celebration, they changed the artwork. While Brett Helquist is a talented artist, what made this book series really great was the strange art by Gammell. Luckily, I have older copies of this series with the weird art intact. I investigated online and found examples of Helquists illustrations. They are great...more of a literal interpretation of the stories....but....it just isn't Scary Stories without Stephen Gammell. Not sure what the publisher was thinking!

Scary Stories 3 gathers 25 more stories from folklore. There are notes about the stories and a list of sources in the back. As in the prior books, the stories vary, even including a bit of poetry and a song. The artwork perfectly accompanies the creepy tales. All the tales are middle-grade friendly.

An excellent collection of scary stories! I will pass on the 30th Anniversary edition. This series stands out because of the original artwork by Gammell. My son remembers these books 17 years after we first read them because of Gammell's artwork. It isn't the same outstanding series without the original art. I'm glad I have the full collection with the original drawings. These definitely have a permanent home on my keeper shelf!
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Adorable! My 5 year old son loves these stories. I would recommend reading the series in order to be familiar with the characters. I also prefer a hard copy to the kindle version as the illustrations occur after several pages of text and my son loves to look at them to help him understand what I had just read to him. The pirates were a huge hit, so I feel little boys might enjoy the stories slightly more than girls. As a mom, I love the team work by the characters to solve their problem. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book be added to your bedtime story collection.
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I read this to both my 3 year old son and my 6 year old nephew; both absolutely loved the stories inside! My 3 year old fell asleep by the end of the second story mumbling about pirate ships. My 6 year old nephew stayed up until I finished reading all of the stories included. He was very entertained by all of them. He even helped read parts of the stories, although some words were too big and I had to help him through them and explain to him what they meant. After we finished reading the stories we went on and discussed each one. This morning he woke up and asked me if we could read a couple of them again tonight! My nephew is VERY picky about what books he likes and doesn't like but this has a story for every child! I would definitely recommend this book to others!
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Its no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of short stories. When I reread the series I will be adding the short stories into their (roughly) corresponding order. It was fantastic to be back in the Lunar world and get new glimpse of characters. The stories give a nice background into the individual stories.

Carswells story was super cute and fun plus fit his character so well. Jacin and Winters story, ahhh one of my favorites. It actually made me love the couple even more!  They are adorable together and Jacin's care for Winter is just great. The Mechanic was my least favorite story but mainly because I felt like it did not provide a lot of new material.

Stars Above ends on a wonderful perfectly high note.  I loved the Something Old , Something New story.  It was the happily ever after that I was looking for.  If you are on the fence about reading the short stories, do it!  The last one is a wonderful epilogue to one amazing series!
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My son (4 1/2) listened to the whole thing in the car today and loved it! The stories are great for your little mystery fan, maybe ages 4-8 would be my guess for best ages. If you have a fan of scooby or busytown mysteries in the house this will be right up their alley. The narrator is very good, he speaks slowly and clearly enough that you can easily follow the story in the car without having to crank up the volume. I think he sounds just like Neil Patrick Harris, to give you an idea. Yes he does a slight falsetto for the female characters, yes I could live without that, but it's not awful. Great CD, can't wait to get the second one!
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I played this game a long time ago when I was a kid, and I thought it was awesome.  Now that I am older and have played a more variety of games, this game falls into the "If you like Bionicle" Category.  It's still fun, short, but fun
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Dallas Woodburn has done a fantastic thing by organizing and editing such a great collection of stories by kids and teenagers.  It's great to see kids who are utilizing their creative side and helping to make the world a more magical place.  For those of you who think kids just sit around and watch TV and play video games all day, this collection is definitive proof that there are still kids out there who are making something of themselves.  The stories they have created transcend age, you don't have to be a kid to enjoy this collection!  Highly recommended!
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These books are so much fun.  Stories are great and I love the art.  They are quirky and more upbeat than you might think for the Frankenstein-like theme.  It's like a Tim Burton movie for younger readers!  Once you read once, you gotta read 'em all.
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As a 50+ year fan of Legos who is introducing them to her grandson this year, I can say I am TRULY impressed with this particular set of Legos.
If you have any kind of storytelling/teaching bent to you, you are going to have a grand time with this set.
The very best part of it is that you get THREE baseplates with the sets of blocks that hold up the back drops. This lets you create multiple scenes/chapters for your storytelling.
I love scifi/fantasy literature and had a grand time creating silly stories with number one grandson using the included sets.  Anyone with a color printer and even a smidgen of creativity can use stiff cardstock and all manner of free online graphics to create there own backdrops.
I'm working on a Velveteen Rabbit, Runaway Bunny three-part story backdrop for my next adventure.
If you own the Duplo Circus, Zoo, and/or Forest: Park sets that include a lot of animals, as well as a good assortment of Duplo figures; your options are completely endless.  Have fun adding other figures/toys your child owns to the stories--who knows who or what may "drop in" when there are no limits!
Since my grandson loves stories this is a great way to build his eye/hand coordination as he helps me "build our sets."  It encourages incredible creative learning as he counts, names colors, learns animal names (he is 20 months old) and even more fun, makes up his own stories.
I LOVE THIS SET!
p.s. as a huge fan of Star Trek I'm looking forward to when we can build some Enterprise like craft that can "boldly explore strange new worlds" using the back drops.  For that matter, fans of Dr. Who could use a little Tardis model to drop in to various times and places and have fun teaching their young ones that way as well.
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Okay... I'm a STAR WARS fan.  Ask anyone.  Really... ANYONE!  I've read several of the pre The Force Awakens novels (do NOT get me started) and enjoyed those that linked new, creative, and downright AWESOME stories to the movies of my childhood!  The animated adventures from The Clone Wars and now Rebels are fantastic stories as well.  This book does a fantastic job of adding some extra "oomph" to The Clone Wars story line.  Reads great.  Lots of details. Very descriptive.  I really liked it, and I'll be on the look out for sure of any "links" between The Clone Wars adventures and some new ones that I can read about!
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These three volumes of Creation Myths are a wonderful compliment to the overall Dark Crystal narrative. This trilogy takes you back to the earliest days of Thra, the origin of Aughra, the arrival of the alien UrSkeks, their plans for the Great Conjunction, the actions of her son Raunip, the subsequent transmutation to urRu (Mystic) & Skeksis, and how the Bright Crystal actually became chipped.

Beautifully illustrated, this is a paperback collection of comics published (200710) by Archaia Studios Press. And best of all, Brian Froud is involved. As a bonus this volume 2 contains images from his Sketchbook along with Reflections of Making the Dark Crystal by David Odell.

The original classic film has been a staple of entertainment in my family for three generations. I really enjoyed it in 1982 as a young adult, my kids loved it, and now a grandchild has discovered it. I always get a big kick out of one of them running up, bursting with excitement, telling me how they discovered something new, and wonderful, and how they must share it with me. And its the Hobbit.
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If you really want to read more of the Batman "Classics" this is a great comic collection for you. This starts with every Batman story in chronological order. There are many other "Batman Chronicles" collections, I believe even up to 10 volumes. This volume 1 includes some very great original stories like metting hugo strange, meeting Robin, meeting Joker, and more! Great buy for anyone wanting to read on the original Batman history!
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Great sampling of the stories from this author! I have read Undead Diary before but after reading this I now have Tesser and Wrath of Orphans in my library! There are even some really good short stories in here that are quite impressive!
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As the aunty of the young man for whom these stories were created, I heard them approx. 2 years ago for the first time.
I'm very happy that they are finally available for the whole world to see/read, with such cute drawings too!
These stories are perfect for your children/friends with children, do read them!
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As a fan of the superhero story, I thought this collection of short stories on that subject was about as good as they come!  I'm told  the stories are all based on a role playing game, but even though I'm not familiar with the game at all, I enjoyed the stories tremendously. I thought it was reminiscent of the Astro City comics - a deeper-than-dime-novel examination of superheros, supervillains and why they are such enduring archetypes of fiction. The writing and storytelling is just plain good old-fashioned fanboy entertainment. I'm hoping there's a volume II!