Kaylyn's World

  The Little Red Wolf by Amémie Fléchais (illustrator), Andrea Colvin (editor), and Jeremy Melloul (translator) is a darker twist on the Little Red Riding Hood tale we grew up with. I love all sorts of adaptations of the fairy tales I grew up with. Little Red Riding Hood was one of my favorites. The Little Red Wolf is an eighty page children's book, and if you have a stubborn child reader at home you may have to read it with them to get them to finish it. The tale is told from the point of view of a small wolf in a riding hood. The antagonists are the humans. The small wolf was told that there was once a very nice human woman who treated the wolves so well before the woman's husband killed her as a mistake and blamed the wolves. The small wolf's parents warned him away from all humans, but when he needed help he followed what he considered to be a nice human girl. She told him a dark tale she was told by her father as they walked to her house. The story seems to be similar ...

  In a sea of Christmas movies in November, I was able to find a Thanksgiving drama that I liked called Turkey Drop. The movie came out in 2018. It stars Olivia Holt, Cheryl Hines, and Ben Levin. In the tale, terrified to be turkey dropped by her high school boyfriend of five years Lucy Jacobs is willing to change herself to stay with him. Her older brother's friend, Dean who is staying with them through the holidays is playing devil's advocate by asking questions like what's so good about her boyfriend, Jordan? This, of course, annoys Lucy to no end. Luckily, Lucy can talk to her sister Lydia and Lydia's girlfriend, Anna about anything. But more is going on in the background with the Jacobs' family. Turns out Lucy isn't the only one afraid of change or abandonment, so Lucy decides to figure out what's going on for their sake all while still working on herself. Eventually the family decides to help because their interest as well as their paranoia is piqued. ...

  In October the children's nostalgic channel, Boomerang chose to highlight most versions of Scooby-doo. Where usually when a kids' channel says they'll have a marathon, you can expect maybe two hours of cartoons, but Scoobtober really came to play. Every day of October offered up ten hours of Scooby-doo. They had six old shows, and luckily they didn't play Be Cool, Scooby Doo because to me that is the absolute worst rendition of the characters and story of Scooby and the gang. The six they did air daily in order were A Pup Named Scooby Doo, The New Scooby Doo Movies, Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo, What's New Scooby Doo?, Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, and Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. They also debuted their new show Scooby Doo and Guess Who?. Scooby Doo and Guess Who is a lot like The New Scooby Doo Movies. Scooby and the gang meet a popular icon and help them or get their help solving a case. The guests were a little hit or miss for me because if I wasn't into ...

 I know I'm not great at writing here, or I wasn't as I'm hoping to change that. As of May this year I was writing for an international e-magazine, and that was a great outlet during all the craziness as we went through the year we've been through. It was really helping me keep my sanity. There I learned how to write book reviews then I just started writing movie reviews, and I also wrote a review on a TV show marathon run on a kids show. Unfortunately, the magazine is on now on temporary permanent hiatus for the moment, so due to that my last three reviews never came out. I'm not upset it's on hiatus. I fully understand and support the owner needing a break during the stressful holiday time and maybe longer. I will easily be there when he comes back as a feature writer, and if he needs more help I'll be there for that too. In the meantime, I'd like to post what was set to come out in the December issue here. Don't worry. I'm not breaking any rul...