(DLA Las Piñas GS LRC) July Book of the Month - Minions

You might have watched the highly-anticipated comedy with your entire family and friends on the perfect date you've already planned as thorough as you could since the end credits of 2013's wildly popular Despicable Me 2 foreshadowed Stuart, Kevin, and Bob auditioning for a brand new film which turned out to be a Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment production featuring small yellow impressible creatures who call themselves Minions!

There's no Margo, Edith, and Agnes this time as it's not a sequel but we get to learn firsthand how the Minions evolved through the ages from shapeless single-celled organisms at the beginning of time into the lovely clever sidekicks they are today.

We witness the adventures they had to go through as each master they followed was eventually replaced (or eaten) by a badder one. It's as intriguing as a Minion's life can be especially when it's brave Kevin leading the way alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob as they venture into a world that may not be quite ready for dominionation just yet.

The Library has recently acquired three (3) full-color books namely Minions: The Junior Novel, Minions: Seek and Find, or Long Live King Bob! to re-live the thrilling journey that ultimately led all of us to the world's first-ever female super-villain Scarlet Overkill and Minionkind's biggest challenge yet: annihilation.

Seek and Find is a hard-bound written by Trey King filled with over 200 things to find inside while The Junior Novel was adapted by Sadie Chesterfield. Long Live King Bob! puts the smallest Minion yet in the spotlight. Bob has big dreams but will his unconditional love of everyone and everything lead to triumph or trouble? He messes up big time when they are sent to steal the English queen's prized crown jewels but ends up becoming the new King of England instead.

DLA Las Piñas GS LRC: Top Library Users & Borrowers (June 2015)

Top Library Users

Mr. Paul Mark C. Amdres

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(DLA Las Piñas HS LRC) July Book of the Month - Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings

Who isn't into fashion and compassion?? People with no heart, that's who! You get to practice these things all day every week but it isn't everyday that you're given the chance to take these things to the next level! What talent or passion makes some people seize onto childhood hobbies and turn them into lifelong careers? How do others let go of their childhood dreams and discover how to make themselves shine in other, unexpected ways?

Those are just a couple of the questions Sophia Bennett explores in her funny yet elegantly charming modern-day fairytale debut, the first in a projected trilogy about four talented teenagers. At the center of the novel are three best friends, each of whom has already identified her own passions, more or less.

Jenny's got real stage presence but her body type which isn't helped out at all by her stylist's bad choices is getting her the wrong sort of attention in the gossip rags. Edie is the brains of the bunch, a high achiever with her sights set on Harvard or Oxford and beyond that a career in politics.

And then there's Nonie, whose lifelong passion is for fashion who knows she'll never be a model like her mother and grandmother was but aches to be a designer although she is not sure if she has the talent.

Although it's is a frothy, fashion-filled fantasy, the book is not just fluff or simply wish-fulfillment fodder for junior von Furstenbergs. As an author's note reminds readers, the focus on Crow's story is based on real-life tragedies that may inspire political action as well as pattern-making. And Nonie's story in particular, about discovering your true talents and real happiness only when you set aside stubborn childhood dreams will speak to even more.