More Than 100 Kids Jokes All Clean Jokes–All Story Jokes Book #3

Image

Today I shall be reviewing ‘More Than 100 Kids Jokes All Clean Jokes–All Story Jokes  Book #3′, by Peter Jenkins.

Now, the first thing that you may notice is the rather long title.  Um, the book title–not the blog post title.  Well actually, both of those two titles because their both the same long book title.  Anyways…

The next thing that you may notice is that the title consists of the number ’100′ and the word ‘jokes’.  This is a joke book.  :P

However, I’m not sure how to review the story of a joke book, accept to say that the author probably had a blast writing it.  So I’ll just skip ahead to the ‘Why I Liked It’ and ‘Why I Didn’t Like It’ part of the book review.

(Oh, I should tell you that I read this book on the Kindle, and can’t seem to find a page for the author on the internet or a book cover to insert into this post.  So it may be that the Peter Jenkins who wrote this book is not an incredibly well-known author, and his book may only be available on the Kindle right now.  ;) )

Why I Liked This Book: All of the jokes were in story form, so they led up to the punchline as a mini-story.  And I really was laughing at a few of the jokes in there.  XD

Why I Didn’t Like This Book: I like silly and clever jokes, but some of the jokes in this book were only supposed to be funny because someone was getting hurt.  Even though I make jokes like that with my brothers all of the time, I was looking for more clever jokes that would take me by surprise when I read this book.

Come back next Friday to here about ‘The Island of the Blue Dolphins’!

;)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

sleepy-cover2woredaut

‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, is a very popular–and old–book, that most of you probably already know about.  I recently re-read it on our Kindle, and I rather enjoyed it this time.  (The first time that I read it, in the 1st grade, it scared me.  Of course, that was around the time that I was constantly scared of stuff like that.)  It was first published in 1890, and has been re-written more than once so that younger readers may understand it better today.

An excerpt of the story may go something like this:

Ichabod Crane is certainly an interesting man.  He’s tall and lanky, long-armed and long-legged, and well-learned–in some ways, that is.  He looks quite a lot like a walking scarecrow, really, but enough about his looks.

He is the schoolmaster in Sleepy Hollow, and possesses the talent of song.  He can often be heard walking home after dark by the small town, singing Psalms in the night.  The songs are to ward off evil creatures and spirits–fore Ichabod is really a rather superstitious sort of man, to say the least.  Of course, all that the Psalms really do is make him feel a bit better as he walks home.

And then there is the beautiful Katrina.  Katrina is the girl that Ichabod yearns for, but he isn’t the only one.  Many men have tried to win Katrina’s heart, but none have yet succeeded.  And many men are still trying when Ichabod joins in.

Then, of course, there is the trouble of Brom Bones.  Brom Bones, is a sort of bully, or ruffian of Sleepy Hollow.  He also wants Katrina’s hand in marriage.

Lastly, there is the ‘Headless Horseman’.  The Headless Horseman is something like a ghost that the small town believes comes out of his grave to ride back to the place where he lost his head.  And somehow, this headless being manages to interlope it’s way into Ichabod’s story.

Why I liked this book: The details were rich, and the story entertaining and fun to read.

Why I didn’t like this book: Despite the fact that it used to scare me when I was younger, I now rather like this story, and hope that you do too.  So I don’t really have anything that I don’t like about it.

;)

My Brothers Are Art Critics

Indeed they are.  They will tell you right away if they like something or if they don’t, and what they don’t/do like about it.  With close-to-zero mercy.  Literately.  I get a little fidgety when they come up next to me and start to watch me draw.

I’m their big sister, and if I accidentally draw an alien robot or a pony wrong in front them, I better cover up my mistake real quick.  I can totally laugh it off like it’s all cool, it’s just a mistake, and it’s funny.  Which is what I usually do–and okay, mistakes in art can look pretty funny.  Or I can purposefully draw something that looks silly.  I mean, that’s the kind of stuff that I do just to entertain myself, right?

Starscream Has a Mustache

I was drawing a funny Starscream and Megatron Pony picture. But then I drew this silly little mustache and beard onto Starscream, which for some reason struck me as very funny.

So today, while I was working on the drawing that you see above, my brothers also began to draw.  Or at least two of them did.  One of them kept asking another one of them if he wanted to go play on the trampoline.  So two of them sat down at the dining table and began to draw pictures of Minecraft and Transformers.  Those two things go very well together, too.  Mineformers

 Anyways, I should probably point out something else.

My brothers copy stuff that I do.  For real.  I used to not believe it when my parents told me to not act stupid, because my brothers would copy everything that I said or did.  But within the last several months, I’ve matured too some amount.  And I now see how my brothers copy stuff that I do.  Seriously.

My brothers were sort of into Transformers before, but they liked other stuff more–like the Avengers.  But after awhile of me talking, drawing, watching and even reading about Transformers, they all got a lot more into it.  Now Transformers is something that’s talked about amongst us siblings on a daily basis.  Whereas last Spring, it really wasn’t brought up very often.

And another thing.  My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.  I watched it, and I got drawn into it pretty quickly once I realized that it’s a lot better from the My Little Pony show that I used to watch when I was younger.  I used to hide the fact that I watched it, because I was embarrassed that I watched–and enjoyed–a show for seven year old girls.  But as I grew to like it more, I began to mention it, and admitted that I had seen a few episodes.  But I acted like I didn’t really know all of the main characters’ names and stuff.  And now?  It’s talked about almost as often as Transformers are, now.  My brothers like it, and occasionally watch it.  And we make My Little Pony jokes, and laugh at My Little Pony comics on the internet.

That’s just another example of how they copy stuff that I do.

And finally; drawing.  My brothers like to draw, but it comes in spurts.  For a week or two, it’s all that they want to do.  But then they stop for awhile.  But ever since I started drawing a lot more often, they’ve started drawing a lot more too.  It’s awesome.  Our fridge is now covered in silly Minecraft comics, Transformers pictures, and The Legend Of Zelda pictures.  We have to hang our drawings in other places now, because we don’t have much room on the fridge anymore.

Now, I guess that this isn’t something that I usually admit, but it actually touched me in a way, when earlier my brothers said that they like my art, and they complimented on my Starscream and Megatron Pony drawing.  They are apparently, very good fans of mine.

Starscream Has Fan-girls CAPTIONED

:D

103_0209

It’s May!

Yes it is, and a lot of stuff will be happening in May for my family and me.  :)

Number 1.  My papa Bowman (my dad’s dad) might be visiting us later this month.  And if he does, we will of course be wanting to take him to places like the Rifle Bird Sanctuary–which is an awesome place to see birds, by the way.

IMG_3121a

A shocked looking Sandhill Crane.

Number 2.  May 4th will be coming soon, which gives me a reason to make a post about Star Wars, go around the house giggling and saying ‘May the fourth be with you’ all day long, and maybe even watch more than one Star Wars movie–all in one day.  (Maybe I could learn how to draw Yoda!)

Number 3.  My oldest brother will be turning nine years old on May 5th.

Number 4.  I have until May 5th to chose the winner for a contest that I’m hosting on my DeviantART.  It’ s the first DeviantART contest that I’ve ever hosted, so it’s pretty exciting for me.  It makes me feel more official.  :P

Number 5.  My second-oldest brother will be turning seven years old on May 8th.  (Does that mean more Birthday cake, too?  :P )

Number 6.  At the start of every month, I flip my calender to the next page and decorate it with my markers and stuff.

103_0208103_0209 ;)

Kävik the Wolf Dog

Kävik the Wolf Dog‘Kävik the Wolf Dog’, is a book written by Walt Morey, and illustrated by Peter Parnall.  It was written in 1968 and has around one-hundred and ninety-two pages.

A brief review of the story might be something like this:

Charlie One-Eye (as he is called) is a dog breeder/trainer of sorts.  Kävik, is a vicious (but as Charlie One-Eye soon finds out, quick learning) pup who comes into the world on Charlie’s farm.  This is when Charlie finally gets the chance–a real chance–to win the North American Sled Dog Derby at Fairbanks.  So Charlie One-Eye trains Kävik up to be as mean and tough as he can get, so that he has what it takes to lead Charlie’s team to the Finish Line.

This is the dog that George C. Hunter saw standing at the Finish Line of the North American Sled Dog Derby.  While the rest of Charlie One-Eye’s team was laying in heaps–obviously exhausted–Kävik stood erect in the middle of the road, ready to start up again if his master gave the signal.  This was the dog that Mr. Hunter wanted to buy.

And so he did.  Mr. Hunter bought Kävik from Charlie One-Eye for a hefty two-thousand dollars.  It was arranged that the dog would be flown by Smiley Johnson over to Copper City, where one of Mr. Hunter’s tenders would take him aboard and deliver the dog to Mr. Hunter in Seattle.

But then, tragedy strikes.

What will happen to Kävik?

What I Liked About This Book:  This story was fun to read and wholesome, and was a lot like what I would expect from a classic about a dog.  All in all, it was very enjoyable, and I would say that kids (probably eight-years-old or older) who are dog fans would like it.

What I Didn’t Like About This Book:  There isn’t anything in particular that I didn’t like about this book.  :)

Come back next week to read about ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’!

;)

I’m So Excited!

But seriously, I am!  :D

My parents surprised me by getting me a Bamboo Tablet (so that I can now draw digital art and possibly even animate) and a few days later, I was surprised again with a new video camera!  :O

I’ve been posting a lot of my art on my DeviantART, but I’ll go ahead and post some of it here…

My First Attempt At Using Autodesk SketchBook

This was my first attempt at drawing with my Tablet.

Tigerclaw

Later, when I was more acquainted with how to use my Tablet, I drew this. (It’s supposed to be Tigerclaw).

Cat Paws

This is what happened when I was practicing drawing cats’ paws.

Faces

Doodles of different facial expressions. XD

Cat Paw

And then we’ll just skip ahead to what I drew yesterday, which was more practice on cat paws.

So, I always seem to want to draw cats, dogs, horses, and Transformers…  Speaking of which, I took a drawing tutorial on how to draw Optimus Prime the other day, and I ended up with this:

Optimus Prime Drawing

And as for my new video camera:

Also, thank you all who told me about animating programs before.

;)

Animating?

You know that saying that goes like, ‘If you dream it, you can do it’ or something along those lines?  Well, one of my problems is that I spend way to much time dreaming it, and not actually investing my time in doing it.

For instance: I think that learning how to program a robot would be super cool, but instead of learning about robots so that I can grow up and get a career in building robots, all I want to do is lay around and daydream about my idea for a robot.

Another problem is that I have a lot of things that I’d like to do.  There’s the robot thing–but I also want to be a voice actor, an author, an artist, and to work with horses/at an animal shelter.  Because I love to draw, write/read, robots/computers, and animals of about any kind, I just want to do all of this stuff.

Truthfully, I could do more than one thing, and I hope to grow up and do at least two of those things that are listed above.

But there’s something that I’ve become very interested in lately.  I guess it’s kind of unusual, but I do like to write scripts (or just writing stories in general) and to draw.

Animating.  I really, really, really, want to learn how to animate.  I want to take the ideas that I have in my head, or the ideas that I already have written down into a story, and turn them into animations for others (and myself) to enjoy.

I’m not sure why, but the idea of my stories being put into the form of a cartoon gets me so excited, that I’ve managed to snap out of my little daydream about it, (or at least partly) and actually start researching it.

So I got word from someone on DeviantART that you can make animations with Photoshop, and that there is a thirty-day free trial for Photoshop.  I’ve actually heard from more than one place that you can animate with Photoshop, and I’ve even watched some of the animations that people have made with it.

So today I looked up ‘Photoshop’ and found a website for it.  But guess what?  The website is so ridiculously confusing!  But I am so close to being able to do it, that I’m too excited to stop now.  So does anybody know how to download the free trial for the animation program to Photoshop?  Or do you know a better program for animating?

I’m not looking for three-dimensional animations, I’m looking for how to animate cartoons.

Thanks for reading–I really want to know.

O_O