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Book Review & Giveaway: Frankie’s Scared of Everything

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Frankie's Scared of Everything
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Building Block Press sent me a copy of the book Frankie’s Scared of Everything for free to read and review. They are also providing the giveaway prize. Opinions are my own.

Frankie’s Scared of Everything is a beautifully illustrated book about a young boy who’s overactive imagination is making it hard for him to sleep. The book was written and illustrated by Matthew Franklin who is a tattoo artist, painter, graphic designer, and musician. After receiving degrees in painting and photography from Miami University he immediately became a staple in the art scene in Columbus, Ohio where he currently resides. The story is one we have heard before in that a child cannot go to sleep because their imagination comes up with scary monsters that keep them up at night. What I found nice and refreshing is that the mom tells Frankie that everything that he thinks is a monster was once an idea in someone’s imagination. She also tells him that he has the power to determine whether or not the things in his own imagination will be scary or not. He can turn things around with his imagination.

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I am able to give away a copy of the book as well as two temporary tattoos, and a neon mini-notebook for letting your kids’ own imaginations run wild. To enter please use the Rafflecopter widget below. Make sure that you leave a comment on this post in order to qualify to win. The giveaway is open only to those in the US and Canada and you have to be 13 or older.

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About the Book: You would be scared too if your own brain was out to get you!

The world can be a dark place. More and more we find ourselves and our children feeling overwhelmed by the unknown and the pressures of society. This book helps instill early on the fact that our fears can be our greatest strengths.

Follow Frankie as their imagination runs wild creating robots, beasts, sea creatures, and even a mole man on this technicolor adventure.

Being afraid has never looked so fun.

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Photo-A-Day

Sketchy White Van

Sketchy White Van
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We got some new neighbors a few months ago. A man and a woman and then their friends. One of the friends appears to be living in his sketchy white van that he parks in front of my house. The man that lives in the apartment has a big white pickup truck. He parks it on his side of the street. The street is not big and these cars take up the whole road. I have not confronted the van man about this. I honestly don’t confront neighbors about anything. The man on the other side is too volatile and angry that I fear for my safety when talking to him. I know nothing about this guy other than he appears to live in the van and works with the guy with the white pickup truck.

We suspect this because the van is parked on the street overnight and one morning the guy in the pickup pulled his truck right up in front of the van and flashed the lights and honked the horn. Then the guy in the van got out and got in the truck. The van guy also has a cat living in the van.

I was talking with the UPS driver today who had to park his vehicle in the driveway where the neighbors live. He noticed how it was hard to park when making deliveries. We also got to talking about the other apartment on my other side. Apparently it is falling apart even more on the inside than the outside.

What to do about the van guy. Well, I took some photos of the van and sent a message to the mayor. The UPS driver said that some other streets had signs about parking on the street and I was wondering if I could get some put on our street. I explained the whole situation to him and he passed it along to the chief of police. not sure what will happen but we shall see.