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: DINOSAUR ART: THE WORLD'S GREATEST PALEOART
This collection of paleoart is more than a panoramic view of dinosaurs as they may have lived and died. We have seen that before. This volume is a breathtaking look into the dinosaur world at both the micro and macro level by those who, by extension, might be considered scientists as well as artists. As Philip J. Currie notes in his foreword, scientific illustrators can produce drawings but it is the artist who can flesh out the bones with muscles and skin and make the resulting art look hyper-realistic and dynamic.
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: WAR EAGLES
Philip J. Riley is the editor of a wonderful series of books published by Bear Manor Media that are devoted to the shooting scripts of classic horror films such as FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, and many more. WAR EAGLES by David Conover and Mr. Riley is part of a separate series devoted to “lost” screenplays that were never actually filmed and therein lays a tale.
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.