{"id":60,"date":"2012-10-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-06-05T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T00:11:57","slug":"cardboard-by-doug-tennapel-graphic-novel-living-cardboard-people-good-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard, by Doug TenNapel (book review) – living cardboard people, good and evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookWe’ve all played with cardboard boxes,
\nmade forts<\/a> and racecars and castles,
\nbut we didn’t use magic cardboard like Cam has!<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we don’t have evil neighbors like Marcus either… (stealing a guy’s only birthday present, when it’s just made with a cardboard box…sheesh!)<\/p>\n

The creator of Earthworm Jim<\/a> of video-game fame and the recent graphic novel hit Ghostopolis<\/i>\u00a0 (my review here<\/a>) brings another fantasy world to life in full-color,\u00a0 so find it now at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Cardboard<\/i>\u00a0 has already been optioned to become an animated feature film<\/a>,<\/i> but you’ll have time to read it first… and keep an eye out for that Marcus.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book Info<\/b>: Cardboard \/ Doug TenNapel. Graphix (Scholastic), 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [video author interview<\/a>]\u00a0 [inside TenNapel’s sketchbooks<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Worst birthday gift ever: a cardboard box\u2026 but Cam\u2019s widower dad took their last few cents to buy it from a strange fellow who gave them rules about how to use it. So the teen and his dad bend and cut the box into the shape of a man, a boxer who magically comes to life!<\/p>\n

Bill the boxer-guy talks to them, will mow the lawn, wants to be a real friend to Cam \u2013 but his cardboard can\u2019t withstand the water-cannons of neighborhood bully Marcus. Taking the leftover cardboard bits (despite the seller\u2019s warnings), Cam creates a cardboard-making-machine that allows him to repair Bill\u2026 and tempts the very evil Marcus into wicked plans and plots that might destroy everything.<\/p>\n

TenNapel\u2019s detailed drawings underscore the barely-hanging-on desperation of Cam and his depressed dad, the manic gleam in Marcus\u2019s conniving eyes, and the contempt that the rampaging Cardboard<\/i> bad guys have for good-fellow Bill and the \u201cfleshies\u201d he tries to protect in this outstanding graphic novel from the creator of Ghostopolis<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve all played with cardboard boxes, made forts and racecars and castles, but we didn’t use magic cardboard like Cam has! Hopefully, we don’t have evil neighbors like Marcus either… (stealing a guy’s only birthday present, when it’s just made with a cardboard box…sheesh!) The creator of Earthworm Jim of video-game fame and the recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80,51,41],"tags":[4,42,16,118,18,40,44,38,15,21,35,33,3,53,8,28],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-belonging","tag-crafts","tag-determination","tag-economics","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-magic","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}