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was recently nominated for an Emmy and positive message to disenchanted best children’s science
Award for Outstanding Special Class kids could be that self-belief is a key fiction books. The fifth
Animated Program. to success. book, Fantastic Voyage
The Australian artist, Samantha Lom- Also, subverting the morbid mores of was nominated as fun-
bardi is the writer/performer of the ‘gothic’ kids, the Spooky Skaters rel- niest book of the year
shows title song which has proved to ish leaving the tedium of the under- in Disney’s 8th Annual
be popular in its own right. world and getting Book Awards. Results
Growing Up Creepie airs away from their for which will be an-
in the US on Discovery decrepit ‘oldies’ nounced in May 2007.
Kids and includes an el- (who, being the Jim Benton’s properties
ement of learning with undead, are VERY are licensed under the
age-appropriate bug old...!).For example, Jinx, company Cop Corp
facts called ‘Bug the vampire girl is the opposite of Licensing who also
Bytes’ at the end the death-obsessed ‘goth girl’ in the represent two other
of each episode. A ‘real’ world, she thinks properties that lean
deal has recently that the living world is towards the dark side.
been made amazing. One is Pink Cookie, a
that appoints Fun Crew are currently junior fashion and life-
Nickelodeon working with Scholastic style brand for female
as broadcaster UK on the first comic consumers in their
for Growing Up strip style Spooky teens and twenties. The brand juxta-
Creepie worldwide Skaters book. poses design elements such as girly
(excluding USA). Jacquie Bloese, flowers and bows with more macabre
Fun Crew’s Spooky Skaters are ghouls Publisher for Eng- imagery. Pink Cookie allows consum-
on wheels who are designed to em- lish Language Teach- ers to mix and match to create dif-
body (albeit skeletally or zombiefied!) ing books at Scholastic UK, says “The ferent looks or moods. Their other
the urban spirit to appeal to beastly anarchic humour and essential cool property is Franky & Minx, a New
boys and gothic girls. of the Spooky Skaters make them York-based counter-culture lifestyle
Skateboard culture has been strong the perfect property for motivating brand built around the tattoo designs
since the seventies and Fun Crew has teenagers around the world to read in of internationally recognised tattoo
embraced this and fused it with the English. We look forward to welcom- artists and their alt-rock (punk and
current trend towards the darker side, ing the ‘Spookies’ to our Scholastic ska) lifestyles.
creating a horror/goth skating brand. reader series!” In a climate in which things that are
Spooky Skaters are demon skaters Jim Benton is an artist and writer who associated with cute and cuddly are
escaped from The Land Of The Dead creates material for a variety of differ- showing their darker side, even fair-
- a place defined as “dead boring” - ent ages and interests. Sweetypuss is ies are turning bad.Scary Fairies from
one of his characters that is enjoying Groovy Distribution are the arch en-
a strong following. It is known as the emies of the popular Rock Hard Fair-
poster child for “psycho-liciousness”, ies. In Urbanworld, the evil billionairre
a deranged and comically anti-social Rex Rich was experimenting with
cat, designed to appeal to those with a DNA fusion, mixing that
darker sense of humour. of unusual monsters with
Franny K. Stein is the main character the worst of all teenagers,
in the popular and critically acclaimed along with fairy dust. He
books by Jim Benton. As a little girl gave birth to Scary Fairies,
and mad scientist, Franny loves bats, a collection of eight fair-
strange bubbling test-tubes and the ies, Kwai, Dark Fairy, Ven-
through a portal to the mortal world ‘gooey parts of science’. With her pur- om, Manic, Lilith Van Vamp,
in a half pipe at The Bones Yard. This is ple hair and love of the macabre, Fran- Panic, Chill and Cursilla.
a skate park, built on the site of an un- ny “fills a void in the typical, traditional, Each fairy has their own
discovered catacomb and the Spooky frilly, pink girls’ dolls and toys.” The character and super-pow-
Skaters’ favourite haunt and hangout. sixth book in the series has recently er including super-hearing,
Fun Crew aim to subvert the idea been released. The fourth book, The turning invisible, x-ray vi-
that ghouls are always the ‘baddies’. Fran That Time Forgot was selected sion, energy absorption
The characters often save the day as one of the two winners of the 2006 and creating chaos. The
while covertly intervening to enable Eleanor Cameron Award, given by characters range from mummies to
‘real’ kids to feel they are winning in the Golden Duck Award Committee vampires and everything dark inbe-
the face of adversity. Their underlying which is presented annually for the tween.
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