Mark Oshiro

Happy Pride weekend in Long Beach 🌈 #pride #lgbtq #casita #books #shopsmall

Cześć i czołem! Kocham książki rickriordan , więc nie mogłam przejść obojętnie obok jego najnowszej książki „Trybunał Umarłych”, która jest drugim tomem dylogii współtworzonej przez niego z @markdoesstuff . Przeczytałam już to cudo, więc teraz zapraszam Was na jej recenzję! Nico i Will po traumatyzujących przeżyciach starają się żyć w miarę normalnym życiem. Minęły trzy miesiące odkąd wrócili z Tartaru i przez ten czas nie mieli okazji wziąć udziału w żadnej misji, i ciężko im (a szczególnie Nico) znaleźć dla siebie miejsce w Obozie Herosów. Z tego powodu, kiedy przyrodnia siostra Nica, Hazel Levesque, prosi ich o pomoc, natychmiastowo udają się tam z nadzieją, czy coś wreszcie zacznie się dziać. Uwielbiam książki Ricka Riordana. Przeczytałam już wszystkie książki z uniwersum Percy'ego Jacksona, większość dodatków i wspaniałą „Córkę głębin” spoza tego świata pełnego mitologii. Pamiętam to, jak zafascynowana byłam podczas czytania pierwszego tomu przygód Percy'ego. Te (zaraz) 4 lata temu odkryłam swoją nową ukazaną książkę i do tej pory uważam ją za moją ulubioną. Historia o chłopcu z ADHD i dysleksją, który okazał się być synem Posejdona, stworzona przez autora dla jego syna, wzrosła się w tak cudowny uniwersum, do którego skład wchodzi aż 25 książek i 11 dodatków, a to się cały czas rozrasta. Ostatnio ciężej mi było z czytaniem. Rzadko znajdowałam coś, co mi się stuprocentowo podobało. Jednak czytając „Trybunał Umarłych” czułam się jak nowo narodzona, jeśli chodzi o czytanie. Dawno aż tak dobrze się nie bawiłam. Ten tom był definitywnie lepszy od poprzedniego. Wróciliśmy do tradycyjnego walczenia z potworowymi problemami. Tym razem jednak to nie potwory są problemem na półbogów, ale to półbogowie starają się pomóc potworom, przepraszam, mitykom, z ich problemami. To pokazuje, w jak genialnym kierunku idzie fabuła tej historii. Trochę jakby ta seria, ta historia, to uniwersum, ta dylogia dorastała. [ciąg dalszy w komentarzu] #bookstagram #rickriordan #percyjackson #trybunałumarłych #wydawnictwogaleriaksiążki

It’s Milo’s 8th birthday 🎉💖✨ Swipe to see Milo’s top 8 (MySpace iykyk) books he’s recently read or reread for the millionth time. It’s been a beautiful experience raising a budding bilingual bibliophile. He’s so excited for summer reading & our trip to ALA in Chicago this year!!! To know him is to love him. His enthusiasm for life is unmatched and he can’t wait to take on the world. He dreams of being a meteoriticist & an author/illustrator. He loves a @librofm audiobook & taking long walks with mama. He’s an Argentina soccer fan & enjoys interviewing authors. We can’t believe our first baby is 8 years old. And of course, he got piles of books for his birthday!!! Happy birthday Milo, we love you!! 📚🫶🏼 #mosskidsbooks #minutereviewwithmilo #kidsbooks #middlegradebooks #kidlit

NEW on the blog: May’s MOSS Kids Book Club — on Substack✨ 📖 A Door Is to Open by @kyomaclear & @juliemorstad (@tundrabooks ): A celebration of entrances, thresholds, and portals— and all the endless possibilities they can lead to!✨ ✂️ Portal Door Drawing: We’re encouraging kids to create with us. It’s our hope that children can imagine themselves absolutely anywhere that they put their minds to. We’ll be using cardstock, a pencil, markers, scissors, and glue. Modifications for varying developmental levels listed in blog. 🖍️ Printable activity kit: Download an activity kit created by us, which includes our what is behind the door worksheet. The activity sheets included in the kit work to develop fine motor skills, visual motor and visual perceptual skills, emotional literacy, and literacy comprehension. 🫶🏽 Decorate A Door & Community Door Hunt: We’re inviting kids to uplift & celebrate a teacher or liven up their living space by decorating a door. Take a tour of prominent buildings in your community—libraries, post offices, bookstores, & coffee shops— by checking out their doors. 📚 Supplemental books: We’ve created booklists to celebrate and educate stories based on Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop’s sliding glass door concept, which allows kids to step into new worlds and experience different perspectives, fostering empathy and diversity. Explore the backlists of our author & illustrator. In the blog, we’ve shared some extra guides & activities that celebrate stories with magic doors, falling through portals, or crossing a great divide. This is also the perfect opportunity to also read stories by AANHPI creators to celebrate and honor Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 🔗 All instructions & printables are in the blog post linked within our stories & on our substack. Happy Reading 🚪🫶🏼💖✨ #mosskidsbooks #mosskidsbookclub #adooristoopen #kidlit #kidsbooks

˗ˏˋ★ 𝐓ɦ𝖾 𝐒υ𐓣 α𐓣ᑯ 𝗍ɦ𝖾 𝐒𝗍α𝗋 ᑲ𝗒 𝐑𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝐑𝗂ⱺ𝗋ᑯα𐓣 α𐓣ᑯ @markdoesstuff ★ˎˊ˗ I actually read this book a long time ago and had even made a post for it, but later I ended up deleting that post because I didn't like how it looked...😭 But well, as I love this book and Solangelo so much I just had to make a post for them again!  ── .✦ 📖 Blurb  As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life–literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that’s been the case so far... Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out to him from Tartarus, the lowest part of the Underworld. He thinks he knows who it is: a reformed Titan named Bob whom Percy and Annabeth had to leave behind when they escaped Hades’s realm. Nico’s dreams and Rachel Dare’s latest prophecy leave little doubt in Nico’s mind that Bob is in some kind of trouble. Nico has to go on this quest, whether Mr. D and Chiron like it or not. And of course Will insists on coming with. But can a being made of light survive in the darkest part of the world? and what does the prophecy mean that Nico will have to “leave something of equal value behind?” 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗮. #thesunandthestar #solangelo #nicodiangelo #willsolace #bookstagram

Thank you immensely to the @aplibraryil for including Into the Mighty Sea in this incredible lineup of books! 😊 🌊❤️

I don’t usually travel far into the Riordanverse beyond Percy and Annabeth’s adventures, but I really enjoyed the Sun and the Star (the first Nico DiAngelo adventure) a few summers ago, so I thought I’d jump into this one, the Court of the Dead, written by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, while waiting for the Son of Neptune audiobook to be ready on Libby (I’m currently rereading the Heroes of Olympus series). Jumping back into a Nico and Will story was so fun. They are such charming leads, and I love how much more we get from Nico’s story since meeting him all those years ago, especially when Will Solace gets to share the stage. This book was also fun because we see more of Camp Half-Blood and a lot of Camp Jupiter, where the bulk of the story takes place, which also means more Hazel and Frank - yay! Getting to read about these characters, ones I loved when I was twelve, fourteen, eighteen, and now twenty, feels like reuniting with old friends. The adventure in this story is unique - Nico and Will travel to Camp Jupiter to help Hazel with integrating former monsters (turned “mythics”) into camp (pieces of which reminded me of Percy bringing Tyson to camp way back when), and furthering the mythology beyond what we’ve seen so far in these books, with new minor gods and monsters at play. There is an especially intriguing sequence at the end with the Mist, something unlike we’ve ever seen before. Like the first Nico DiAngelo adventure, Riordan and Oshiro spin a tale with a strong emotional backbone. While the central focus is Nico and Will, we also get a fair amount of insight on Hazel, which I enjoyed a lot, especially her and Nico’s relationship with Hades/Pluto. This story reminded me of the short stories we get in Camp Half-Blood Confidential and Camp Jupiter Classified - stories within the camps we know and love without a Titan or Gaea-related war going on. I highly recommend grabbing this one off the shelves if you are craving a fun, easy, heartfelt read that will make you want to put down your phone and travel back to the world of Greek and Roman heroes - the ones that we can learn so much from.

WOW, what a month! Our Writers in Schools program hosted 82 visits in March across 60+ schools in all 5 NYC boroughs 🌈 Whether participating in a book discussion or composing their own poems in a workshop, our visits offer the chance for students to interact directly with an LGBTQ+ author and their work, and most importantly, to engage with a thriving queer artist. #bookstagram, #DiverseReads, #lgbtq, #pride, #OwnVoices

Indie bookstore hangs + events + joy ✨📚💖✨

Some of these are ARCs that don't come out for a little while longer and will be getting reviews pretty soon! Maybe I'll make another one of these later??

“La Corte dei Morti” by #RickRiordan e @markdoesstuff 💀🐎☀️🌬️🏛️📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Trama: Nico di Angelo e Will Solace sono tornati da pochi mesi dal Tartaro, quando uno strano messaggio di Hazel Levesque li conduce al Campo Giove. Alcuni mostri, stanchi di sottostare agli ordini degli immortali seminando caos e devastazione, hanno chiesto asilo alla sorellastra di Nico nella speranza di poter decidere del proprio destino. Tra loro Asterione, il temibile Minotauro, che ha guidato fin lì i mitici, come si definiscono. Chi meglio di Nico e Will, che hanno salvato il titano Bob permettendogli di scegliere come vivere, può convincere i diffidenti semidei romani che i mostri siano cambiati? Chi può indurli a convivere pacificamente? I mitici cominciano però a scomparire a uno a uno: la Corte dei Morti vuole punirli per i loro crimini ed è pronta a condannarli all’oblio, senza possibilità di appello. Nico, Will e Hazel dovranno unire le forze per salvarli e sventare un piano che potrebbe condannare anche loro tre allo stesso crudele destino. 🥁Adrenalina, coraggio e avventura: in questo secondo capitolo dedicato ai #Solangelo non manca davvero nulla. La trama si infittisce fin da subito, tra misteri e sparizioni che mettono in allerta il Campo di Giove. Semidei Greci e Romani si trovano costretti a unire le forze contro un nemico comune: un inquietante tribunale di morti, pronto a giudicare ciò che è cambiato e ciò che, forse, non dovrebbe cambiare affatto. 🦅 Il libro è coinvolgente, ironico nei momenti giusti e arricchito da nuovi personaggi che incuriosiscono e funzionano. Ma la parte che mi ha colpita di più è stata vedere Nico crescere davvero: più sicuro, più consapevole, finalmente in pace con sé stesso. Anche i suoi amati Coco-Pops — i cacodemoni legati ai suoi traumi — tornano in una veste diversa, più matura, quasi simbolica del suo percorso. 🌤️ Consigliatissimo, soprattutto a chi conosce già questo universo: non è una lettura da iniziare “a freddo”, ma un viaggio che dà il meglio se si arriva preparati. 🫶🏻 Vals.

Ma dernière traduction, sortie le 1er avril dernier chez @albinmichelstories . Un retour dans l'univers de Rick Riordan et Mark Oshiro, avec des personnages chers à mon cœur ❤️ Bon retour au Camp Jupiter à tous les lecteurices de la saga ! #PercyJackson #traduction @markdoesstuff @readriordan