Séance Tea Party, based on Reimena Yee’s book of the same name, is planned as an hour-long cg special. The original graphic novel, which touches on themes like family conflict, inner-strength, and gender identity, was drawn and co-written by Chad Sell. The Cardboard Kingdom will be a cg/2d series that emphasizes the importance of imagination and play during the formative years of adolescence.The company also produced Mo Willems’ Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience!, an hour-long cg-animated comedy and music special that will debut later this week on HBO Max’s Cartoonito. It has produced three seasons of Disney Junior’s Muppet Babies and the Netflix series Action Pack. Founded in 2006, Oddbot is best known for its work in the preschool space.The titles are The Cardboard Kingdom, Séance Tea Party, and The Okay Witch. Oddbot has optioned and plans on developing the three graphic novels into two animated series and one special.Here’s more about the company’s new projects: will develop and animate three adaptations of popular graphic novels for kids and family audiences. Glendale, California-based animation producer Oddbot Inc.
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Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas-some iconic, others never-before-revealed-that have played out on the stage and off camera. The road to the Oscars may be golden, but it's paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts. But don't be fooled by the pomp: the Oscars, more than anything, are a battlefield, where the history of Hollywood-and of America itself-unfolds in dramas large and small. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and little gold men. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.Īmerica does not have royalty. The main character was born in 1947, the year my paternal grandparents got married. My parents (and maternal grandparents) grew up during that time they immigrated to the U.S. Taiwan was under martial law for 38 years, from 1949 to 1987, surpassed in length by only Syria (1963-2011). One of the last books I read in 2016 but also one of the best, this book was an intensely personal read for me because it focuses on a dark, tumultuous, and bloody era of Taiwanese history, called the White Terror, that my own family lived through. Trigger/Content Warnings: mentions of death, murder, torture My Summary: Told through the perspective of an unnamed first generation Taiwanese American woman, Green Island chronicles the life of the main character from her birth on March 1st, 1947, the day after the infamous 228 Massacre, to the year 2003, marked by the SARS outbreak, intertwining her personal, family history with the political history of Taiwan. Note 2: Parts of this review were originally published in and adapted from my Favorite Books of 2016 post. You can find my list of books that I read and the links to the reviews for those books here. Note: I read this book as part of the #DiversityDecBingo reading challenge. Having recently transferred to one of the most edgy districts in London from an idyllic small town, Flyte finds Cassie’s dyed black hair, eyebrow bolt and lip ring alienating. When DS Phyllida Flyte arrives at the mortuary to investigate the theft of the body of an elderly man who died of natural causes, communication problems soon develop. However, being a committed Camden Goth, Cassie makes an exception for the constabulary. As the plot of Body Language unfolds, Cassie is revealed as an empathic listener, equally open to the living and to those transitioning to the next world. Her job as a mortuary technician gives full rein to her natural affinity with death, which is also expressed through her fascination with dead animals and her enrolment in an online course in taxidermy. That’s the philosophy of twenty-five year old Cassie Raven, whose secret super-power is ‘hearing’ messages from those who have recently passed away. Respect the newly dead, and they will share their stories. It is a complex friendship filled with repetition, redundancy, and recurring battles that eventually get soothed over, usually just in time for the next fight between friends. At the same time, however, Jas is also at times Georgia’s nemesis in weird way. Georgia, however, does not seem to be a psychopath though she is obsessed with breasts. Reading the novel is not really that terribly far removed from reading Alex’s NADSAT narration of A Clockwork Orange and, in fact, the two characters share some-slight-similarities both are snarky to the core, both are funny, and both are obsessed with their self-contained microcosmic world. She even includes a very useful glossary of terms at the back. She introduces herself in a “Note” at the book’s beginning with a warning/advisory to American readers to beware of the robust dollops of slang which populates the lexicon of her entries. The thirteen-year-old diarist-narrator and protagonist of the book. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. |