HEY, KIDS! JOIN THE EMU CLUB!

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Over the past couple of weeks, I've made both books in The EMU Club Adventures series available for free.

 

You can get information on how to download them here.

 

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I thought it would be fun to set up a very little project for kids who have read the books.  As those who have read them know, when Stuart, Brian and Violet are bored, they find fantastic adventuresby focusing all their curiosity and creativity on one particular regular, ordinary mystery of their everyday lives.  

 

The question "Where did our lost video game controller go?" leads them to an alien invasion in their backyard.

 

The question "Why does time seem to move so slowly right before school ends?" leads them to a ghostly thief of time.

 

So since kids are sheltering at home right now, and are probably going through some moments of boredom, I though it could be fun if they could:

-Think of some ordinary mystery or question in their home-bound lives right now; and

-Think of some extraordinary, crazy, adventurous solution to that mystery, as often happens to the EMU Club.

 

LET ME KNOW! Email the responses to me at:

TheEMUClubAdventures@gmail.com

 

Email a simple typed message.

Or email a picture of a handwritten page. Maybe even with a picture too!

 

I'm not sure what I'll do with the responses, but I'd say there's a good chance Stuart, Brian or Violet will respond to each email.

 

The project ends on April 20, so get those responses in by then! 👊👽🏡👻🕰️

-Rb

 

 

 

 

 

ERASE COVID – BUY PRINTS TO RAISE MONEY

ERASE COVID – ARTISTS GIVE BACK

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I've joined Erase COVID to have prints of two of my comics available for purchase to raise money for coronavirus-related causes.

You can see the comics and how to purchase them as prints here.

A better look at the comics here and here.

Profits will be split evenly between the artist, the printer, and the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.

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And I'm donating 100% of my share of these profits to the Food Bank for New York City.

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(To be clear, 100% of all money I receive from this will be donated.)

Thanks,

Rb

FREE BOOK: THE EMU CLUB ADVENTURES – GHOSTLY THIEF OF TIME

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In support of quarantined families with kids, I'm now making my second EMU Club Adventures book, Ghostly Thief of Time, available for free.

 

You can download the pdf of Ghostly Thief of Time at THIS LINK for free.  Gratis.  No charge.  On the house.

 

You can also get the first book, Alien Invasion in My Backyard for free at THIS LINK.

 

I hope you guys are enjoying the series.  Next week, for kids who finished both books, I'm going to announce a little project that they can do.

 

What better time to exercise your imagination?

 

Stay well and stay kind, everybody.

 

 

ABOUT THE EMU CLUB ADVENTURES:

 

Stuart Tennemeier, his best friend Brian Hrzincz, and his sister Violet want to start a mystery club like the ones they read about in books, but they have no idea how to even find a mystery in their suburban neighborhood.

They settle on trying to solve a mundane mystery from their lives – what happened to the game controller they lost – and they find that when you look really, really closely at your world, you can find absolutely amazing things.  And maybe even save the world.

The EMU Club Adventures series, for kids aged 7-10 (and adventurous, curious spirits of all ages), is by cartoonist Ruben Bolling, the author of the award-winning comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug.

 

"Ruben Bolling is one of my cartooning heroes, and The EMU Club Adventures is seriously, mysteriously funny!" – Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

 

"There's no mystery—the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read." —Lincoln Peirce, Big Nate

 

"The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hoped to live in when I was 12, when the answer to questions like 'Where did I put my toy' led inevitably to alien conspiracies and secret underground tunnels. A book for the curious and adventurous!" – Cory Doctorow

 

"The funniest book about unbelievable kid mystery exploring I've ever read. The only real mystery is why you aren't reading this book RIGHT NOW!" -Elliott Kalan