Short Review of ZEN PENCILS: INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR KIDS

Before reading ZEN PENCILS: INSPIRATION QUOTES FOR KIDS, I had never heard of "Zen Pencils" before. Apparently, it's an online comic of some form.  The book takes quotes (some long, some short) from a variety of different people and then illustrates a sequence of action to go along with the quote. The author uses a variety of different forms of illustrations in the book. Personally, I enjoyed some of the ongoing storylines that the author imagines; there are certain characters that reappear throughout the book, but in different adventures and different contexts. ZEN PENCILS: INSPIRATION QUOTES FOR KIDS isn't a typical graphic novel, but because of that it will appeal to an audience that probably doesn't read graphic novels very often.

A Quote About Christianity

"Christianity is a faith for all people, but it is not a faith for all notions and ideas." - @MattWalshBlog

The Oatmeal and Jim Henson

Cecil B. DeMille on the Bible

"After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day."  --Cecil B. DeMille

Justin Timberlake

I'm not a fan of Justin Timberlake. He has a smidgen of talent and is completely overrated. However, I always assumed he was intelligent. That was until I read an interview with him in the Oct. 8, 2010 edition of Entertainment Weekly. His quotes say it all.

On whether or not he will be making another album: "All I'm saying is, in very simple terms, I'll know when I know. And until I know, I don't know."

On if there is anything he would like to do in movies that he hasn't: "You talk about film with me, I'm like an open flesh wound. But in good ways, too. Sensitive to everything, sensitive to what could be great, afraid of success and afraid of failure."

Books and Reading

"Every act of reading is resistance."--Daniel Pennac, p. 95, Better Than Life

"As a product of our hyperactive consumer society, books are treated about as well as a hormone-injected chicken, and are certainly respected less than a nuclear missile."
--Daniel Pennac, p. 168, Better Than Life

For No Reason At All

Sarah: I need you, Hoggle.
Hoggle: You do?
Sarah: [nods] I don't know why, but every now and again in my life - for no reason at all - I need you. All of you.
Hoggle: You do? Well... WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO?

--from the movie LABYRINTH

Friendship Quote

"No one can see the seeds of friendship but they grow into something beautiful."
--Winnie the Pooh

Eustace Clarence Scrubb

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it....Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools."
--C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Faith

"Faith is embracing the uncertainties of life."
--pp. 89, In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson

On the Unknown

"To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways; we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation." --Oswald Chambers

From Ray Bradbury

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
--Ray Bradbury

Thought For the Day

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
--Robert Benchley