My lunch time pastime is looking at old and new online reader copies. I swap back and forth as to which gets attention during that particular viewing. Recently the new ones were the lucky ones. I saw a thumbnail cover that had a moon and what I assumed was a beach on the cover. It said Tuck Me In!, and my first thought was (to be honest) that it looked boring as it was going to be just another bedtime story for babies and toddlers. Yet, I looked a smidgen closer (as after all, it never hurts to look) and thankfully I did as I then saw the author name, Nathan W Pyle.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Pyle is an author and illustrator that has a comic series with the multiple aliens that are formal with how they present themselves word wise. They say things that let you know the item in question is the sun, but they call it something like the giant sky orb of yellow that comes out during the day. Well, anyways, due to this unusual approach, they are down right bonkers and terribly funny most of the time. And I hoped that Tuck Me In! would follow in a similar fashion.
Well, my online reader copy was not as exciting as I had hoped, but it was better in other ways. You see, it is not a bed time story, but gives you an easy to understand story about how tides work. It also shows us how building sandcastles were invented. Due in September 2025 you too can find this delightful book and find out what you might not know about the subject done in a cute, clever and offbeat folktale like telling.