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We couldn’t leave the dicussion of black without mentioning Mike Thaler’s Black Lagoon books. Mike was born in Los Angeles in 1936. After moving to New York City, he started his professional career drawing cartoons for adults. A children’s book editor saw one of these cartoons and encouraged Mike to write children’s books. The attempt was successful and Magic Boy was published in 1962.

140 books later, Mike has been called “one of the most creative people in children’s books today.” Thaler now lives in Canby, Oregon and does author visits all over the world (view his calendar to see if he’s coming to your town.) Check out Mike’s FAQs page - he seems like a lovely, charming man.

The Black Lagoon books come in two forms, the Black Lagoon picture book series like The Teacher from the Black Lagoon. This series is great for beginning readers in grades K through 3. There are currently 18 of these books, and has several more are waiting to be published.

Then there’s the Black Lagoon adventure series like The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon. These are chapter books for older readers, grades 2 to 5. Mike has created 8 of these books with plans for more.

Scholastic has also created The Teacher from the Black Lagoon… and More Slightly Scary Stories on DVD.

Mike has created a wonderful series of books, just perfect for summer book reading programs or back to school reading this August. Check ‘em out!

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