ARC Review: Chase Danger Super Spy: Pirates of Pineapple Island

Title: Chase Danger Super Spy: Pirates of Pineapple Island
Series: Chase Danger Super Spy book 2
Author: Lisa, Chad, and Chase Oliveria
Illustrations: Adam Goodman
Publisher: Magic Fire Music Studios
Date of Publication: August 2012
Source: received from author for honest opinion of it.
Get Your Own: website


Synopsis:

7-year-old super-spies Chase Danger and Princess Ali Bali must think fast when they discover pirates have stolen Zalezgon's magical pineapples. But that's not all! Ali's little brother Aiden has been kidnapped by the dreaded pirate Captain Looney, who is planning on taking over the world with his newly invented Weather Rockets!
Hang-gliding, jungles, giant sharks, super Roller Coasters, pirates, and a sky-dive will keep your children's attention from start to finish and give them a thirst for adventure!

Mom's Thoughts:
I just love Chase Danger!  If you just look at the cover you can tell this is one little boy who can get the tough jobs done!  But then add to the mix, a mysterious little girl and they make a great team that makes this book for both boys and girls. I love the graphics in this book.  All the different colors, the different characters  being portrayed, makes me get excited and my children are no different!  When we got book #2 in the mail, all I could hear was squeals of happiness as they ripped open the packaging to get their hands on this book.  Do you know what makes this book even more better?  The fact that it brings together all of my boys.  My nine year old twins love it because of all the action and different spy gadgets; my seven year old adores Chase and Ali Bali and loves reading it out aloud, and my four year old loves to sit among his older brothers listening to the read-along cd that comes with it; not to mention he loves sword fights.  I think this would be the perfect gift for that reluctant reader or any child that just loves a really good story! ***** stars for me!

Anthony and Conner's Thoughts:
We loved the first book but I think this one just made it even better!  When we first got our hands on this book, (we jerked out of our mom's hands-sorry Mom) all we wanted to do was just look at the pictures before we even started reading it.  Anthony and I just love the pictures!  We have even tried our hand at drawing a couple of Chase Danger scenes, but we aren't really that great at it.
Anthony: Okay hands down, my favorite part is when they ride the roller coaster and then shoot into the sky!  This is why I will not ride a roller coaster at Six Flags; you never know when this could happen!  (Okay, so it is probably next to impossible...) But it was pretty exciting reading about it.  I really like Chase but my favorite character is Ali Bali.  She is so tough and I think she makes a great friend for Chase.
This is one of those books that is great for older and younger kids, girls or boys.
Conner: We have really gotten into comic books lately.  Our dad bought us a lot of comics the other day.  That is a major reason I like Chase Danger so much.  It is written out like a comic book would be.  It is easy to follow along to and the read along cd makes all the action seem to come alive.  After listening to it the first time, our little brother, Jace, picked up a toy sword and started pretending he was Chase.  It was really funny, but even more funnier when our other brother, Mikey, decided he was going to be Captain Looney.  He does that part really well-he is kinda crazy.
I like that we have this story that all of us can enjoy.  It's something that us big kids can read, but little kids get a real kick out of all the funny scenes, like with the shark. In fact, we all kinda laughed at that one. I am a huge fan of spy movies, like Spy Kids, and this series is a lot like that.  It is funny, exciting, and has a lot of interesting different characters.  Even the villains have some cool parts; but it the most fun watching Chase and Ali put the bad guys away.
I wish we could give it more than five stars; like a hundred!  Because it is really that great!
Mikey and Jacey's Thoughts

Mikey: I think it is super cool that Chase and I are the same age.  I always like to imagine the different things I could do, like travel to outer space, but it is really fun to act out the scenes from the Chase Danger series.
Chase and I have a lot in common, but most importantly, we get our strength from eating pizza! I love pizza, though not really pineapples much.  My favorite scene was Operation Baby Safe.  I love little babies and it was funny when Chase said, "born potty trained!"  I can understand how Aiden gets his feelings hurt from his sister.  My brothers tend to do that to me and it is easy to think they don't care about me.  I am just glad my feelings can't set off rockets!  That wouldn't be good at all!  I really liked the surprise we find out in this book and I can't wait for book 3!
Jacey:  I love the sword fighting!  Yah!  I like to hear the sounds that come from the cd and I always get to turn the page too.  I am even learning which words are Chase, spy, and Danger.  I really like this book a lot and I always get really excited to hear it before I go to bed at night.  Sometimes, its fun just to listen to the cd, and other times I like hearing my mom read the book to us.  She does pretty good voices with our different stuffed animals and she can read books pretty good too.  I want to give this book as a present to our cousins for Christmas.

All in all, we have all talked and decided Chase Danger Super Spy and The Pirates of Pineapple Island deserve five stars!  This is one of those books that you can read over and over again and it just keeps the excitement level constant!

Make sure you stay tuned in the next few days because we will be having an interview with someone very special to this series.

Wow! What A Wonderful Time!

As you have noticed (hopefully) my blog looks a wee bit different and very very good!  The wonderfully talented and very patient Lori at Imagination Designs worked with me to find something that I absolutely love!  I want to see a big huge THANK YOU to Lori for putting up with my very picky self.  She is awesome and I highly suggest anyone who is looking for a new look to talk to Lori.  She can help you make your blogging dreams come true!  


Also, there is so much that has been going on and I can't wait to tell you guys everything!  Now you guys probably have heard me talk about my kids' love of reading too.  My oldest sons, the 9 year old twins, absolutely love everything that has to do with R.L. Stine.  They could tell you what year he was born, what his favorite color is, why he started writing...you get the idea.  Well for a few months we have been planning secretly to drive to Nashville, Tenn., (which mind you, for us is a six and half hour drive there) and let them get their books signed by Mr. R.L. Stine and hopefully their pictures took too.  
The day before the morning of the trip Mom (me) gets sick.  So not a fun adventure!  I was so scared that I was going to be miserable and not be able to go but thank goodness everything cleared up and we were on our way!  After a very long drive...I mean very LONG, with an especially crazy detour in Atlanta, we arrived in Nashville.  Oh my goodness, was it windy!!!  My son's Goosebumps hat, literally flew off his head and my husband is running down the street trying to catch it!  It was actually pretty funny watching my husband run down the road, waving his hands, like the hat would magically fly back!  Sorry...I digress.

The area where the festival took place was absolutely beautiful!  It was downtown Nashville around the War Memorial Plaza.  This place is breathtaking!  Everywhere you look is marble and even marble steps. I am sorry but I loved the beauty of this.  There was a beautiful greek statue in the middle of the plaza.  Oh my goodness I just wanted to stand there for awhile to gaze upon it.  I loved it!  

This is just after Conner about passed out when he seen Mr. Stine standing in a hallway.  I thought it was wonderful that we found something that finally rendered these boys speechless! 

I loved the panel discussion or the "Q & A" with R.L. Stine.  It was so informal and cozy.  He had us laughing with his great humor.  He is such a funny guy and you can tell he really loves what he does!  

 After the discussion we went downstairs to get in line for the signing and my sons were so excited!  Honestly, I was pretty stoked myself too!  This was my first author signing too so I couldn't wait to share this with my boys!  

They had their books ready and Conner had his skeleton and Goosebumps hat on.  Can you tell they were really really happy?  Yep, they couldn't stay still; they were bouncing around looking around to try to catch a peek at him.  

And finally, we reached their "dream come true":  

They were literally standing there with their little mouths open in complete shock that they were standing beside their favorite author of all time.  He told Conner that was a great hat and asked Conner where he got it and the only thing Conner could reply was, I have no idea but will you be my friend?  Bless his heart!  He was trying to talk to them but they were speechless.  Then when Dad was trying to take the picture R.L. Stine posed perfectly but the twins couldn't pull their eyes away from him.  Then when we had to leave...it was pretty hard to drag them away.  

I thought it was pretty creepy in just the perfect R.L. Stine way that Red Rain has some evil twins in it and look! I have twins...are they evil?  Well there is sometimes....lol.

All in all, it was a wonderful day and a wonderful weekend.  I was also lucky enough to pick up an autographed copy of a book I have been pining for awhile...but that will be in another meme post. 

Yes, it was a terribly long drive for these old bones but to see the smiles on my sons' faces and to meet such an iconic person...it was completely worth it!  

And of course we were able to see the beautiful leaves turning for fall so I leave you with this picture:

What did you guys do this weekend?