I was a bit surprised.
No, I didn’t mind his cute, little tushy; I was taken aback by the fact that I was a reading teacher being asked to evaluate books without any words. Many moons ago, before I took up the cause of the secondary struggling reader, I used wordless books for teaching story-telling and writing. Wordless books are especially helpful with language acquisition students and pre-operational children. For older children, wordless books offer a natural look at story structure (story mapping), elements (dialogue, sequencing) and development (character, plot). Many English-Language Arts teachers love wordless books.
But I digress….
Micah Linton probably didn’t know that he’d be sending his big idea off to a woman with a vested interest in anthropology. Oh, he probably thought, “here’s this reading blogger who might like my little tale about the discovery of the weebeasts,” but he had no idea that in a brief two months she’d be watching her son, who has changed his major five million times, graduate with the intent to go chase weebeasts of his own.
Darn, digressing again ….
Still, even though I love, love, loved the anthropological slant, I wanted something tangible to say here other than, “colorful, lucid, sparks the imagination.” So imagine my surprise when, two days later, another book arrived. And it had words!

I enjoyed Weebeats and could easily see it growing into something big. But, despite its extremely well done self promoting, I couldn’t help but wish Mr. Linton had secured a book deal with a major publisher. I can see the weebeasts idea going the way of Christopher Paolini's fairytale ending, if just for just the right publication house. The weebeasts idea is so clever, it deserves bigger promotion and I’m happy to do my small, small part.
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Genre: Fantasy Age: 4-8. Pages: Origins 3 volume 166/ Plight 32.




Themes: Tolerance, Friendship, Social Science
Thank you Mr. Linton for the great books!
Publisher: Beast Stew. Date: October 2008 / March 2009.
ISBN-10: 0980188857 / ISBN-13: 978-0980188851 and ISBN-10: 0982173407 / ISBN-13: 978-0982173404
Buy Weebeastology Here
Buy Weebeasts: Plight Here
GIVEAWAY:
On March 2nd, in celebration of Read Across America, I'll be giving away my first edition copy of Weebeasts: Plight, the three volume Weebeastolgy and naked, yellow, butt-tattooed weebeast in his little brown bag. ☺
For one entry, leave me a comment about your involvement with children's literature. Are you a teacher? a librarian? a parent? Or someone who loves kid lit?
For an extra entry, you can twitter or blog about it. Just leave me the link from the tweet or post in your comment.
On March 2nd at 10PM EST, I'll use random.org to pick a winner!

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No need to enter me (although I *am* tempted by the toosh); I just wanted to say I love your blog!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me in your contest. I am a lover and reader of children's lit and a librarian hoping to work with children of all ages. These books sound very interesting.
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I've been teaching kindergarten for 31 years! Children's Lit is still my passion...just ask my hubby!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm a lover of children's lit. Thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, this looks like fine. It won't be long before many other books are doing such funky packagings and including stuffed creatures!
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid reader of YA lit, and for my library class internship that I'm participating in this semester, my final project is going to be about young adult literature. I'm so excited.
Thanks for this giveaway!
stephxsu at gmail dot com
What a neat idea! I haven't seen this one before and I'm very interested. As far as my involvement, I'm a parent, used to be a teacher, have always wanted to be a librarian and adore children's literature. My sister-in-law is a third grade teacher and we hope to some day write and illustrate our own children's book. Lofty goal but we like to dream big! Thanks so much for your contest and I've added it to my blog.
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5wrights1@verizon.net
I am a lover of children's literature and also aspire to write/illustrate one of my own. Gashlycrumb Tinies and Fantastic Planet are two sources of inspiration. Weebeasts is now up there too.
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I teach 3 to young 5 year olds, in a preschool. We are not reading as of yet and these books would be excellent to stimulate imagination and future art projects!!!
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Darby
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What a cute little character! Count me in :)
ReplyDeleteI also put you in my blog sidebar at my book blog :D
I am a book lover and i read to my children and the ones i baby sit befpore nap time and bed time. I even read with my 10yo
ReplyDeleteWhoops, I just realized I didn't say that I love children's books, and still take them out from the library to read even as an adult.
ReplyDeleteI've loved children's books and it all began when the very first chapter book I ever read, "Charlotte's Web", I still read children's books not only for myself (LOL) but also for my children. I'm in school for Early Education and am open to all genre's of children's lit.
ReplyDeleteTwittered and now following you on twitter(kristinialeanna)
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I'm a hospital librarian, and the physicians I serve often act like children. Is that good enough?
ReplyDeleteI want the books and the doll for myself, actually.
Ania: Thank you very much :-)
ReplyDeleteThe winner is Velocibadgergirl!