Shlomo Carlebach said that gentiles tell stories to put themselves to sleep; Jews tell stories to wake themselves up.
I wrote a picture book called The Gobblings that comes out this week. it's about a boy named Herbie whose parents force him to move to a space station far away from his friends. A bunch of aliens are destroying the station, and only Herbie can save them.
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http://hevria.com/matthue/stole-story-baal-shem-tov/
Masao Yajima & Boichi's cataclysmic manga tale of clashing religious beliefs upon the advent of a teen girl's manifestation of godlike powers comes to a compelling and satisfying, although not entirely expected, conclusion in volume 5. The ending that readers get is gigantic in scope and awesome in spectacle, and also entirely predicated on story developments that have occurred earlier in the narrative; however, the climax still manages to sidestep a predictable and expected denouement, for better or worse.
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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2014/12/22/wrapping-up-raqiya/
The Gobblings is a fascinating new children's book written by Matthue Roth, and its story is filled with surprises. ¡ÈHerbie didn't like his new house very much at all,¡É the book begins, but its second page reveals that their house ¡Èwas far off in space¡Ä¡É So yes, the nights really are very long and very cold, and all Herbie can see out his window is a gorgeous expanse of stars. Roth's book is overflowing with exciting surprises, and it's fun to see them all illustrated by Rohan Daniel Eason.
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http://www.review-land.com/the-gobblings-by-matthue-roth/
The penultimate volume of Masao Yajima & Boichi's epic anarchic fantasy Raqiya: The New Book of Revelation revolves around violent conflict on both interpersonal and global scales. The divisions are distinct, intense, and harsh, and the book spends little time allowing the reader any respite.
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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2014/12/20/exploring-raqiya-volume-4/
The Gobblings is a very powerful book. The first message is that there is value in stopping and noticing what is going on around you. The second is that you may be the only one who can avert certain disaster. Then it shows, in no uncertain terms, that when this happens and you know what to do — do it! Don't stop and ask for permission. Don't waver or whine or run away trembling. Do it! Be brave! Finally, it reminds you that in order to do the right thing, there may be a sacrifice. It tells you all of this indirectly, by way of a little boy named Herbie on a space station, but the message is loud and clear — and beautifully illustrated.
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http://thepicturebookreview.com/2015/01/07/the-gobblings-by-matthue-roth-and-illustrated-by-rohan-daniel-eason/
The first two volumes of author Masao Yajima & illustrator Boichi's five-volume manga series Raqiya are brooding, enigmatic suspense with interludes of horror and intense violence, all steeped deeply in ancient Christian dogma. The third volume begins to accelerate the pace while subtly introducing new concepts to the narrative.
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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2014/12/18/return-to-raqiya/
The Gobblings is a loose retelling of an old Hasidic folktale, “The Alef Bet.” A boy is wandering through a strange town where he doesn't know anybody. It's Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, but nobody's prayers in the entire town are working. The boy only knows the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the Alef-Bet. So he says the letters, and the honesty and simplicity of his prayer go through the Gates of Heaven (okay, in our story, it's the landing bay on the space station) and save everybody.
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http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-gobblings
Are you the ¡Ècool¡É aunt/uncle/friend who wants to bless the wee ones in your life with a high quality but ¡Èedgy¡É holiday gift, one that may cause nightmares (that you don't have to deal with, ha!), but that's just sincere enough their parents can't openly resent you? Then I heartily recommend The Gobblings, a haunting book ¡Èfor children¡É about a lonely boy who lives on a space station and the metal-munching monsters he must defeat.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/10/the_gobblings_by_matthue_roth_and_rohan_daniel_eason_is_the_perfect_christmas.html
Kurt Cobain: When I was an Alien from One Peace Books was written by Danilo Deninotti and features strong art from Toni Bruno. This book has been reviewed on this site in the past but I just have to say that I found it an infinitely better experience than Gus Van Sant's Last Days and Cobain's perspective feels true to the person I imagine him to be¡Äit is ultimately not a sad story, nor a happy one, but an alien experience that has a lot to say but eventually ends up just saying a great big nevermind. Not being the world's biggest Nirvana fan or anything but knowing his story well I like to think this work would not bother him at all. For more information on the book check out my interview with One Peace Books Editor Robert McGuire.
read the article and watch the video here:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/11/indie-spotlight-featuring-return-to-rander-signed-the-gatecrashers-modern-polaxis-american-nature-masterplasty-and-kurt-cobain-when-i-was-an-alien/
Our new picture book by Matthue Roth is coming on in December! Just in time for the Holidays! Here is a pre-release review!
Considering this is the same creative team as last year's My First Kafka, they couldn't be more different. Well, I don't want to get too carried away with hyperbole. Of course there are myriad ways in which they could have been more different. Nonetheless, they might have followed with My First Proust or My First Sartre, instead they've flung us into a retro-future in which clean-cut spaceship crew members wear Fantastic-Four style jumpsuits and contemplate large panels of blinking lights.
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http://www.picturebooksreview.com/2014/11/the-gobblings-2015.html