Destination Cool
Welcome to DESTINATION COOL!
If you or a member of your family love everything dinosaur, and here I mean museum exhibits, theme parks, movies, cartoons, books, clothing, artwork, comic books, toys and collectibles . . . so do we!
We’re also all about JURASSIC PARK, KING KONG, GODZILLA and the MONSTERVERSE, GORGO, KONGA, TUROK, kaiju, Charles R. Knight, Willis O’Brien, Marcel Delgado, Ray Harryhausen, Jim Danforth, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Steve Ditko, Russ Manning, FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, Basil Gogos, fantasy, sci-fi, robots, robot fighters, robots that transform into dinosaurs and gorillas, BEAST WARS, robots and donuts, quality baked goods, aliens, barbarians, Halloween, masks, superheroes . . . the list goes on and on! If you’re familiar with these names that’s fantastic. But if you aren’t, then you’re in for a treat. And there is so much more to the dinoverse that I guarantee you haven’t seen.
We cover current and out of print picture books, wordless books board books, consumable books such as activity books and coloring books, oversize books, easy chapter books, children’s fiction, children’s graphic novels, non-fiction, fiction, art books, art instruction books, encyclopedias, comic books and more. We are not purists, so King Kong, Godzilla and Turok can take their place alongside a scholarly volume devoted to T-Rex.
In addition to book reviews, we cover movies; and feature interviews with writers, artists, publishers, actors, and other creatives; retrospectives; product reviews; giveaways and more.
Our favorite children’s librarian, Miss Jane, will serve up book reviews, recommendations, age-appropriate reading lists and bibliographies for book lovers of all ages.
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Miss Jane Book Review: A JOURNEY UNDER THE SEA
For those who have enjoyed Foster and Frylinck’s Oscar winning Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, get ready to love this collaborative work in a new book for children, A Journey Under the Sea.
JP Book Review: SUPER DINOSAUR Trade Paperback #1
SUPER DINOSAUR was originally published by IMAGE COMICS as a series of comic books beginning in 2011 and had a 23 issue run concluding in December of 2014. The issues were collected in a series of 4 trade paperbacks that are available in both softcover and in kindle ebook format. The term “trade paperback” refers to a compilation of comic books and they are generally available at comic book stores, through comic book publishers, online and in some book stores.
Miss Jane Book Review: PALEO BUGS
The excitement begins with the full color cover illustration of a huge millipede and a dragonfly with a wingspan of 3 feet! The endpapers are an appropriate forest green with silhouettes of various insects that crawled the earth hundreds of millions of years ago.
JP Book Review: DINOSAURS LOVE UNDERPANTS
I’ve been around the block a couple of times when it comes to pitching things in Hollywood and while I can’t say I’m an expert, I know a thing or two about high concept ideas; especially ideas involving dinosaurs. I know the genre extremely well and I like to think I’ve seen just about everything.