Kubrick's Game starts out with a nerdy, socially awkward college student, Shawn Hagan, attending a film class at UCLA. He proceeds to argue with his professor, beginning with the professor's pronunciation of Stanley Kubrick's name. The disagreement goes downhill from there, but Shawn is later...

My Homework Ate My Dog! by Derek Taylor Kent is a young adult fantasy book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of pre-teen and teens who enjoy magical fantasy fiction. Eleven-year-old Rudy Berkman and his dog, Beast, barely survived a fire that burned...

Professor Mascaro, professor at the UCLA School of Film and Television, receives a package that contains a reproduction of a famous Kubrick photo originally posted on the cover of Look Magazine. On the back of the photo are the words, “Follow me to Q’s identity.”...

Principal Mikey is a wild, bright and highly amusing book for children written by author Derek Taylor Kent and illustrated by Paul Louis Smith. Intended for middle-grade readers of seven to twelve years old, this fast-paced chapter book follows our hero Mikey McKenzie, a scientific...

Doggy Claus / Perro Noel: A Bilingual Holiday Tale is a warm Christmas story of a dog that wants to make other dogs happy by giving them Christmas presents. Jingle thinks they need Christmas gifts to be happy but soon learns what they really want....

El Perro con Sombrero meets Los Gatos con Gelatos: English and Spanish Edition is a bilingual animal adventure storybook for children, grades k-3, written by Derek Taylor Kent, illustrated by Lynx Animation Studios, and translated into Spanish by Mara Martinez. Dogs and homework have traditionally...

The Grossest Picture Book Ever (For Kids who Love to Laugh) is written by Derek Taylor Kent and illustrated by Lynx Studios. Take a walk on the wacky and weird streets of Gross where our strange gross behaviors are celebrated instead of treated with disdain....

Dinosaurs love roaring, chasing, and snoring. The race day, the Dino Derby, has come and the giant Dinos laugh at the tiny Dinos, saying they have no chance at winning. It is time for the race to begin and the lights turn green, signaling for...

The Leaning Tower of Pizza, written by award-winning children’s author Derek Taylor Kent and illustrated by the diversely sourced Bright Jungle Studios, tells of a group of four children who mishear their geography and culture lessons, mistaking the Tower of Pisa for the Tower of...

If you like comic books, The Mootants vs. The Unstoppable Mega-Chicken by Derek Taylor Kent will be just up your alley. Kyma is a curious 11-month-old calf living a humdrum life on Lumpke's milk farm. All she wants is the freedom to roam the outside...

Bam the Sasquatch loves to build things. He’s not very good at what he does as everything crumbles and falls apart with a big "ka-boom!" In Derek Taylor Kent’s Ka-Boom!, Bam tries all kinds of projects, like mending a roof only to make it leak...