Daddy Mojo-kidlit, children's books and comic books

This Little Engineer: A Think-and-do-Primer is a board book that makes crawlers through 2nd grade think, but also clears up the vague definition of “what is an engineer?”

Quest Kids and the Dark Prophecy of Doug blends comic-style art and quickly-paced text for a mglit series that spans elementary and middle school.

Our 14-year-old saw Bob Marley: One Love. What does a typical middle-school person think about the film? His thoughts might surprise you.

The Bellwoods Game is mglit that pairs illustrations with a great heel and an urban ghost story that lives in every neighborhood for an age-appropriately scary and spooky time.  

Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.  

Moomin and the Golden Leaf is a new story about sharing, moving on, accepting setbacks, and caring staring the classic character.  

Plague-Busters! Is an entry gate, heavily illustrated, entertaining chapter book with humor and science on the planet’s deadliest diseases. 

The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is the charming story about a club that teaches siblings of parents the ways of how to be cool to nieces and nephews. 

Schnozzer & Tatertoes: Shoot the Moon! establishes itself as one of the big dogs in elementary school graphic novels. 

Monsters Never Get Haircuts has the potential to be your pre-k kid’s favorite book. The art is awesome, the text is brief and the story is very funny.

Big Ideas from History: A History of the World For You is the ultimate read-aloud book, if the audience can handle non-fiction and thinking

Hooray for She, He, Ze and They! What Are Your Pronouns Today? Is a noble book whose target audience is too young for the social message. 

Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs is an engaging chapter graphic novel on how little things are a big deal to animals. 

Finn’s Little Fibs is an illustrated book by Tom Percival that uses detailed art, a classic feel and brief text to effortlessly teach a lesson via the book’s character. 

Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man novel that combines prose and any conceivable narrative caffeine to entertain readers.  

A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia is a fun, fresh take on the basics of some uncommon and cool critters. 

Outside Nowhere uses snappy, funny dialogue, a sense of wonder, mystery, and ultimately redemption in this mglit home run.

Ludwig and the Rhinoceros is a great and timeless, illustrated book. Ludwig and the Rhinoceros is a child’s first primer on critical thought. Both of these statements can coexist.  

A Sky of Paper Stars is a graphic novel on death and grieving that manages to not be too heavy, concentrating on the support and love, but acknowledging the loss. 

How Old is a Whale? asks the question that every elementary kids poses, plus dozens of other age-related ones on animals of all sizes. 

Fungi Grow sounds like a rallying cry for a dude to get larger in the garden. In reality, it’s a STEM-based poetry book that melds lyricism, nature and entertainment. 

Investigators: All Tide Up is the seventh entry into this all-age graphic novel series that continues to deliver laughs and puns aplenty. 

Meet the Megafauna! uses great art and gatefolds to remind elementary ages that big creatures are cool, they don’t have to be dinosaurs and can have relatives among us today. 

Ten-Word Tiny Tales: To Inspire and Unsettle is a children’s book that lays kindling at the base of imagination for any age. 

Infested is the teen horror book that will make reluctant readers jump into the book pool and declare that everything is fine, with millions of roaches.