February 2019
The Literary Resource for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents
12-year-old
Taylor MOxey Inspires Kids to Dream Big
Rachael MacFarlane Breaks Gender Barriers with New Picture Book
ONES TO READ
Scott and Laura Jordan ONE TO WATCH
Paxton Booth Jim Petipas
Creates an Udderly Entertaining Book Series
James Patterson
Teach Kids Kindness
Alan Silberberg Introduces Little Readers to Some Silly Spuds
Angela DiTerlizzi Adds a Sparkle to the KidLit Scene
Ashshahid Muhammad Motivates Students to Stay on Track
Judy Newman
Chapter and Versus
Teaching Toolbox
Alphabet Fun Q&A
Middle Grade Explained
Taylor Moxey Inspires Kids to Dream Big by Melissa Fales
Taylor Moxey is only 12 years old, but she’s already launched a successful business, written a book, created a foundation through which she runs her philanthropic endeavors, and was even named Black Soulutions’ 2018 Woman of the Year. “When I look back at everything that I’ve accomplished, it’s something that 7-year-old me could never have imagined,” Moxey says. “And to think that it all happened just because I wanted a Barbie doll.”
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As a young girl, Moxey enjoyed a special weekly tradition with her parents. “After church every Sunday, we’d go to Target to shop and I would get a Barbie doll,” she says. “One Sunday, I saw this Barbie doll I really, really wanted but when I asked my father if I could have it, he said no. He told me that I would have to buy it for myself.” Moxey says her parents thought she was ready for a life lesson about earning money to buy the things she wanted instead of depending on her parents, or anyone else, to buy them for her. Moxey’s parents helped her think about her talents and her passions as a way to determine how she could make enough money to purchase the doll. “I had an Easy Bake Oven and I really liked baking, so I thought I’d sell baked goods,” Moxey says. Her parents gave her a $40 loan to buy the supplies she would need. “We signed a contract written on a napkin saying that once I had reached X amount of money, I would have to pay them back the $40,” says Moxey. “I just wanted 6
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to make enough money to pay them back and get the Barbie.” Moxey baked and brought the finished products to her church. “I told everyone what I was doing and that all proceeds would be going towards my Barbie doll fund,” says Moxey. “I ended up selling out of everything within 15 minutes and I made $175. I was not expecting that. It was so exciting.” After paying back her parents, Moxey still had a considerable sum of money. “I had a moment where I had to make a decision,” she says. “I could spend a lot of the money, buying the Barbie doll and other things. Or, I could put it back into the business and use it to make more money.” Moxey says it didn’t take long for her to decide to reinvest the money in herself. “My parents are entrepreneurs and that spirit was always around me when I was growing up,” she says. “I guess I had that spark in me, too.”
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part of a life lesson and it evolved into a full-fledged business,” says Moxey. “I’m proud of that aspect of my life. Right now I’m more focused on the Taylor Moxey Foundation, which I started in order to educate, empower, and encourage literacy and community service for people worldwide.” One program of the Taylor Moxey Foundation is the Taylor Moxey Library Project, which creates pop-up libraries in low-income areas. The idea came to Moxey during a trip to the Bahamas. “We were in Moxey Town, which is named after my ancestors,” she says. “My parents were working on some property they own there and I was bored out of my mind.” She asked her mother if she could go to a movie theater, but there weren’t any. There wasn’t even a public library for her to visit. “When I learned that, I knew I wanted to change it,” Moxey says. Moxey used some of her profits to get custom-made business cards for her burgeoning baking business. “I handed them out to my friends, family, teachers, and complete strangers,” she says. “It was before I had a phone, so the cards had my dad’s number on them. He’s a teacher and he started getting all these calls during class from random people wanting to buy cupcakes and brownies and cookies.”
Back home in Florida, Moxey and her parents got to work, purchasing and transforming a lawnmower truck into a small portable library that could travel from place to place. “That was important because I knew there were other towns in the Bahamas that needed a library,” she says. Moxey received donations of books for the library from all over the world. The
Demand only went up once Moxey entered her classic, buttery, southern cornbread into a local cook-off and won. “Some of the other contestants were professional chefs who owned restaurants and they were all a lot older than me,” she recalls. Moxey received a check and a billboard advertising her business. When a news reporter saw the billboard, she set up an interview with Moxey that later aired on TV. “When I got home from school that day, I could tell my parents were excited,” Moxey says. “They said, ‘We have good news for you,’ and I thought I was getting a dog. But when I found out I was going to be on TV, I was off-the-walls excited.” While her baking skills put Moxey on the map, she’s begun focusing her energy on some of her other initiatives. “It went from something I was doing as StoryMonsters.com | February 2019 | Story Monsters Ink
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truck-turned-library and books were shipped to the Bahamas where they are still being used today. The Taylor Moxey Foundation recently opened a second library in downtown Miami’s Omni Park, this one made out of a former shipping container. Again, book donations poured in. “There’s no age range,” says Moxey. “We wanted to have a variety of books for all ages.” A third library, destined for Colombia, is in the works. Two years ago, Moxey authored her own book, The Adventures of Taylor the Chef. “It’s basically my story,” she says. “It was easy to write but when I tried to illustrate the book, it was bad. It was basically just stick figures, so we had to have an illustrator do that part.” As a spin-off from the book, Moxey also created “Moxivation” cards, which offer positive affirmations. “They’re designed to help motivate people to be the best they can be,” she says. “They’re little notes with
sayings that you can put in a lunch box or wallet or purse and when you need motivation, you just look at it. You read the message, think about it, and hopefully say, ‘I can do this.’ It’s a little pick-me-up. One of my favorites is ‘Dreams don’t work unless you do.’” Moxey says she hopes young people who hear about the work she’s doing will be inspired to start their own business or to do something that will make a positive change in the world. “My message for other kids is to keep on working towards your dreams,” she says. “Don’t be afraid to work hard for what you want. It would have been a lot easier for me not to start a business when I was 8 years old. I didn’t have to do any of the work I did, but then I wouldn’t be the person I am today.” For more information about Taylor Moxey, visit, taylormoxeyllc.com or find her on Instagram @Taylor_Moxey.
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“When I look back at everything that I’ve accomplished, it’s something that 7-year-old me could never have imagined. And to think that it all happened just because I wanted a Barbie doll.”
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JAMES
Teach Kids Kindness Even though I’ve been writing books for kids for some years now, I always feel just a bit of a thrill calling myself a children’s author. For a long time, I wrote only adult mysteries and thrillers—stories that are pulse-pounding, fast-paced, compulsive reads. One of the biggest challenges I’d faced when I started to write for children was remembering what it was like to actually be a kid. I grew up in Newburgh, New York. My mom was a teacher, and my dad worked in insurance. My family was working class—we didn’t have all the money in the world, but I found ways to keep myself entertained. I have three sisters—three!— which would’ve made life for any little kid difficult. I tried not to get roped into their girly stuff too often. Instead, I liked to be outside, riding my bike. I played with the kids who lived on my street. I was a great student, but I wasn’t a big reader. Back then, reading books for fun was oftentimes a way to distance yourself from the other kids. Not to say I was so concerned with my social standing when I was 10 years old, but when you’re that age, all you want to do is fit in. I already got called out for being the son of a teacher, and I had pretty wild, curly hair that people just loved to make 14
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fun of. I wasn’t going to do anything that might make that worse. Flash forward many years, and I’m sitting down to pen my first book for children: Maximum Ride. Of all of the characters I’ve ever written, Max Ride is still one of my favorites. And the reason I love her so much, and have so much respect for her, is that she’s different—and she owns it. She isn’t afraid of what people say about her, because she’s above that. She’s in a class of her own making. She doesn’t let the bullies get her down. When you’re a kid, life is hard. Adults expect you to understand difficult subjects like money, and work ethic, and family responsibilities. They expect you to act like an adult, but you don’t know how to do that when you’re 8 years old. My kid characters know how hard it is to be a kid, and they know that there’s usually nothing worse than coming head to head with your peers when all you want to do is fit in. Humans are social creatures; we crave acceptance. But when sometimes all we get instead is derisiveness, cruelty, and mean names, it can really bring you down. I think we’ve all had experiences with bullying in our childhoods. It’s a singularly shareable human condition.
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Since Max, I’ve written many other kids books, and I’m lucky enough that they’ve all been so popular with young readers. And I think that’s because kids can really see themselves in these characters. The star of my Middle School series, Rafe Khatchadorian, is always going up against his school’s resident bully, Miller the Killer. Jamie Grimm finds a lot to laugh about, even though his life has been tough—but he consistently struggles to maintain a civil relationship with his cousin, Stevie, who’s pretty much a jerk. Jacky Hart has a terrible stutter, and the kids at school have branded her with the embarrassing nickname “Jacky Ha-Ha.” Unbelievably Boring Bart is pushed around in the hallways and has his things stolen by his bullies.
As long as I write kids books, I’ll make it my mission to show kids that one of our greatest superpowers is empathy.
Reading reveals to us the perspectives of those around us. Books teach us that there are other worldviews. Everyone has their own story—everybody is dealing with their own issues and challenges. Everyone faces their own kind of adversity. It’s easy to forget this, especially in these times, when it seems so difficult to care about others at the threat of harming our own well-being. But that’s what stories are for—they’re here to remind us we aren’t living on this planet just for ourselves. If you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you’re a lot less likely to judge them for who they are, because you’ll be able to understand where they’ve come from. Bullying is one of the most important subjects I’ve written about. And as long as I write kids books, I’ll make it my mission to show kids that one of our greatest superpowers is empathy. If we can teach kids kindness, if we can teach them to express themselves in healthy, considerate ways, we’re going to leave the world a much better place.
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David and Michael, the stars of my book Pottymouth and Stoopid, have been called horrible nicknames since preschool, and it really messes with their sense of selfworth. Norbert Riddle’s whole life—his whole world, in fact—has been dictated by earth’s greatest bully ever, Loving Leader. Even now, I remember the terrible names bullies used to call me. Mean words can stick with us for a long time. Word bullying is insidious and constantly prevalent. And even now, we see how difficult it is for some of us—even those in the highest echelons of power—to be kind and considerate and careful with what we say. I think if we can show kids the power of bullying early on, prove to them that there are other ways to treat each other, we can stop it from happening. That’s why I think establishing a lifelong habit of reading in children is so important. One of the greatest lessons we learn from reading books is that of empathy.
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LIFE OF A READER
JUDY NEWMAN
Chapter and Versus When I was a kid, it was definitely not okay to say the word “suck” out loud or in any kind of writing for school (or at home for that matter). It was considered a curse word, one letter away from the really bad one. These days, I see the word used freely in schools, in books that librarians and teachers and parents recommend and feature on library shelves, and on authors’ and educators’ public social media. When I hear someone say “verse” as opposed to “versus”—as in Brown “verse” Board of Education or New England Patriots “verse” New York Giants—I wonder if a similar acceptability shift happened. Even though it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me, is it now considered okay to say “verse” instead of “versus”? I consider myself a big thinker. My day job as President and Reader in Chief of Scholastic Book Clubs is to work with lots of smart and talented people at Scholastic to develop strategies for getting 800,000 classroom teachers across the country and their students connected to brand-new and favorite books. We want to help inspire all kids to see themselves as readers. But I also sweat the small stuff, particularly when it comes to word usage and grammar. I was born what we would now call a “word person.” In addition to not using the word “suck” in school, we didn’t really have “word persons” back in the day. 30
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We didn’t refer to someone as a “people person” or an “animal person” or an “instant-coffee person.” You just liked people, or animals, or Sanka—or you did not. I didn’t have many hobbies, but I read and loved words and word games and puzzles and quiz shows. I used my precious TV allowance to watch word-based game shows such as College Bowl and Password. I started playing Scrabble as a kid on a flat playing board. It was exciting when the turntable was introduced so you could rotate the board and see the letters upright no matter where you were sitting. I got one for my 11th birthday. With my babysitting money, I bought stacks of Dell crossword puzzle and word-search books. Years later, when I first came to New York, it was a special thrill to be employed by Dell Publishing’s then-Director of Publicity, Isabel Geffner, to work in the publicity department—just one floor away from the staff who created and marketed my beloved Dell crossword puzzles! In addition to hiring me to work so close to the “puzzle people,” Isabel sharpened my writing. She edited my work on press releases and The Dell Dateline, our weekly newsletter for booksellers. Isabel insisted on excellent copyediting and grammar. Forty years after she first explained to me when to use “between” versus “among,” it is a real thrill to report that Isabel, who is
Later, I graduated to the New York Times crossword puzzle, which I still depend on solving to feel as if I’ve had a successful day.
Junior High. I had to defend eminent domain. At the time, I was outraged both by the concept of eminent domain and by the fact that I had to defend something I didn’t think I believed in. In any event, I learned a whole new set of words to support my reluctant argument: appropriate, just compensation, inverse condemnation.
Growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, I looked forward to our Friday spelling bees at the John Ward School and being on a class debate team at Weeks
All these childhood experiences were language-rich for me, featuring deep fountains of words. They enhanced the vocabulary I had been absorbing
now the Advancement Director of Book Harvest, and I are reconnected and working on an incredible early childhood literacy partnership project.
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since birth, all day long at home and at each meal; during story time and bedtime; and from the books and magazines and music in our home. Those experiences—coupled with being surrounded by my immediate and extended family and family friends, all of whom used extensive vocabularies to
communicate with me and each other—meant I had a word-rich childhood. Not all children start life with such word wealth. As publishers and writers and educators and parents, we have to work together to fix that: to level the playing field for all children and eliminate the word gap. If children start life with a word deficit, it’s hard to catch up. Without words, children cannot make sense of the world they live in or express themselves and make their ideas understood. There’s a massive word gap between children of different socioeconomic backgrounds. This past summer at the International Literacy Association Conference in Austin, Texas, I— along with 20 teachers—attended a wonderful, word-filled dinner celebrating Peter H. Reynolds and his new book, The Word Collector.
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Near the end of the dinner, Peter asked all of us seated around the long dinner table to each write our favorite word on a placard and share it with the group. That night, the word I chose to share was “collaborate.” To me, that’s what we—publishers and authors and educators—are all doing every day: collaborating to help all children find books to read and connect with. To discover books they see themselves reflected in. To embrace books that open new worlds. The singleminded goal of our collaboration is to have all children see themselves as readers. Peter dedicated The Word Collector to Dick Robinson, Scholastic’s Chairman, President, and CEO—and the son of Scholastic’s founder, Robbie Robinson. Dick has inspired all of us who work at Scholastic to dedicate ourselves to partnering with teachers and educators and book creators and publishers to make sure all children have access to great books so they
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can learn to love to read and make sense of the world they live in. As we head toward Scholastic’s 100th anniversary in 2020, we want to make sure as many children as possible have access to The Word Collector. It is a rare and timeless and accessible picture book that has universal appeal to kids … and future “word persons” of all ages.
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Judy Newman is President and Reader-in-Chief of Scholastic Book Clubs. For more information, visit judynewmanatscholastic.com.
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Jim Petipas
Jim Petipas Creates an Udderly Entertaining Book Series by Melissa Fales
When author/illustrator Jim Petipas was in high school, he and some friends wrote a silly song about cows which they performed for skit night at their summer camp. “We came up with some funny lyrics and a pretty catchy tune,” Petipas recalls. “Years later, when I sang it for my daughters, they said, ‘Dad, you should turn that song into a children’s picture book.’ I thought that was a pretty good idea.” The result is The Cows Go Moo!, Petipas’s first children’s book, and the first installment in what will be a three-book bovine series. Petipas started drawing at a young age and studied drafting in high school in hopes of becoming an architect. “When I was a kid, my parents brought me to the library often,” he says. “I can still picture the spot in the corner where all the how-to-draw books were. His parents also encouraged his love of music. His father bought him a mismatched drum set when Petipas was in the eighth grade, and he played in various bands throughout college and beyond. “I still play drums almost every day and I’ve started begging my wife to let me start up a band in the near future,” he says. With the expectation that he would work in his stepfather’s appliance store, Petipas went to college and earned a degree in business. He worked at the store first as a janitor, then an installer, working 42
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his way up to a sales position. “They were going to make me the manager of my own store, but I felt very unfulfilled doing that type of work,” he says. Instead, Petipas followed a calling to earn a degree in youth ministry and spent 15 years working as a youth pastor. He loved the job, but since his wife had a high-powered job in Boston, it meant that a nanny was raising their two young girls. “It wasn’t right for our family to continue in that mode,” Petipas says. “We weren’t parenting our kids the way we wanted to be. We decided that I’d stay home with the kids.” Later, Petipas earned a master’s degree in family counseling and nine years ago, he began counseling adolescents. It’s a job he continues to do part-time. “My passion for helping teenagers navigate their lives is right up there with my passion for art,” he says. Over the course of these different careers, Petipas hadn’t been keeping up with his drawing. Once he decided that he was going to translate the cow song into a children’s book, Petipas struggled to get beyond a few sketches. “I didn’t have a process, so I didn’t get anywhere with it,” he says. “Six years went by and I hadn’t done much. That’s when I heard about a class at MassArt. It took me through the process of creating a book dummy for The Cows Go Moo! It was awesome. I was so happy to have completed it.”
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The Cows Go Moo! was released by Boardwalk Books, Petipas’s own indie publishing company, in May 2018. It’s a raucous, rhyming book that parents will enjoy as much as their children. It follows the adventures of nine musical cows whose band travels the world on the Udderly Crazy World Tour. Accompanying the book is the song that started it all, performed by Petipas himself, which is available as a free download from his website. He’s currently working on a The Cows Go Moo! coloring and activity book. Petipas has already begun working on the second book, The Cows Go Moo Shuffle, and yes, it will have an accompanying song, too. In fact, it’s based on a song Petipas and his college roommate wrote when Petipas was first learning how to play the guitar and it’s designed to lead people through a series of dance moves. “It’s a song I’ve sang quite often with youth groups over the years,” he says. For this version, Petipas’s lyrics reference familiar nursery rhymes
“My passion for helping teenagers navigate their lives is right up there with my passion for art.”
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about cows, such as Hey Diddle, Diddle and Old McDonald Had a Farm. “The kids are already familiar with these stories and they love learning the dance moves,” Petipas says. “I’ve tested it out at some of the school visits I’ve done and it’s been a big hit.” Petipas is still brainstorming for the third book in the series, but it’s tentatively called The Cows Go Metal and would be accompanied by a much heavier rock song. Eventually, Petipas wants to illustrate a graphic novel he plans to call Jimmy Bojangles: The Prodigal Dad relating his father’s troubled life. After his parents got divorced, Petipas’s father bounced around from job to job, in and out of jail and on and off the wagon with drugs and alcohol. The two reconnected towards the end of Petipas’s father’s life and had the chance to rekindle their relationship. “It’s a message of hope I want to share with children and adult children who may be distant from their fathers for various reasons,” Petipas says. “My goal is that my story of reconciliation with my father would help bring other estranged families together.”
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money, Heifer International gives these families a cow and teaches them how to start their own cow milking business so they sell the milk and use the money to support their families.” One thing that Petipas hopes people will take from his story is a “You’re never too old” attitude. “I hope they’ll be encouraged to follow their passions, no matter whether they’re 8 or 18 or 54, like I am,” he says. And as strongly as Petipas feels about being able to use his book for positive change, he mainly hopes that people will enjoy it. “I’m a big proponent of joy and laughter and families having fun together.” For more information about Jim Petipas, visit thecowsgomoo.com or find The Cows Go Moo! on YouTube.
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After reading Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie of Toms Shoes, Petipas was inspired to donate 10 percents of the profits from his books and “moo merchandise” to Heifer International. “I wanted to do something that mattered with my books, so I started the Buy-A-Book, Give-A-Cow Project,” he says. “With every book or item purchased, readers are helping to provide real cows for families living in poverty. Each cow requires a $500 donation. With that StoryMonsters.com | February 2019 | Story Monsters Ink
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MONSTERS AT THE MOVIES
The Kid Who Would Be King reviewed by Nick Spake • grade: B
The Kid Who Would Be King is a modern take on the Arthurian legend, although it has more in common with Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Of course, both of those young adult franchises were clearly influenced by the story of King Arthur. In that sense, you could argue that Joe Cornish’s movie brings matters full circle. That’s not to say this is the first film to combine Camelot and contemporary times. We’ve seen this done before in A Kid in King Arthur’s Court and Avalon High, although neither of those films set the bar especially high. As far as family-friendly versions of the Arthurian legend go, The Kind Who Would Be King is one of the better ones, even if it doesn’t reach the heights of Disney’s The Sword in the Stone. Andy Serkis broke out as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and he passes the torch to his youngest son in this fantasy adventure. Louis Ashbourne Serkis plays Alex Elliot, an everyday lad who spends his days talking about magic with his best friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo) while dodging a couple bullies named Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kaye (Rhianna Doris). If you’re up to date on the King Arthur mythos, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that these four are destined to become the new Knights of the Round Table. Upon pulling Excalibur out of a construction site, Alex is paid a visit from the one and only Merlin, who informs him that the evil Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson) is set to return in the wake of humanity’s darkest hour. Having previously directed Attack the Block and cowritten Ant-Man, Cornish does a solid job at balancing effects and humor. The most amusing character in the film is Merlin, who looks like Patrick Stewart 52
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back in his heyday. Since the wizard ages backwards like Benjamin Button, though, he appears to Alex as a teenager played by Angus Imrie, who talks like a “D&D” fan who takes his role as Dungeon Master extremely seriously. That’s perhaps the best way to describe the film: goofy while still having an element of gravitas. At times it’s even reminiscent of ‘80s
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kid classics like The Goonies, The Monster Squad, or Explorers, although it lacks the edge that really made those films stand out. From a production standpoint, The Kid Who Would Be King is mostly well-crafted with sharp editing, cinematography, and art direction. Whenever the filmmakers solely rely on computer-generation, however, the action becomes a bit too cartoony for its own good. The effects can especially distract from Ferguson’s performance as Morgana, who’s draped in CGI a majority of the time. The film’s greatest drawback is in the pacing department with the runtime that stretches just over two hours. The story begins to lag a bit in the middle and eventually works up to not just one, but two climaxes. That being said, the final showdown is an inventive one that makes impeccable use of its suburban setting.
Occasionally, The Kid Who Would Be King runs the risk of blending in with so many other YA fantasy stories, but it ultimately sets itself apart with a capable young cast, a self-aware tone, and even a few surprisingly adult messages. Without giving too much away, Alex’s relationship with his estranged father is a central theme of the story. It would’ve been easy for the filmmakers to simplify this subplot, but they actually tackle issues like abandonment and alcoholism in a respectful way without pulling punches. This also puts a welcome spin on the “chosen one” trope, demonstrating that greatness can truly come from anywhere.
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Nick Spake has been working as a film critic for ten years reviewing movies on his website: nickpicksflicks.com.
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