My First Skate Book: 5 Minute Story Comic Book - Discover The Super Cool World of Skating - Starring A New Superhero (My First Skate Books, Issue 1)

Some superheroes travel to distant worlds and battle menacing monsters and villains. Some can be found closer to home. Jenny Jen, the SKATE WOMAN, is here! The world’s first and only rapping skate teacher, and skating superhero, is moving into new territory, helping young and old alike navigate the wonderful world of skating with her new series of books. MY FIRST SKATE BOOK Marvel to a galaxy of fascinating facts, while enjoying plenty of hardy laughs! Discover a variety of skating styles, from mild to wild. Meet the young twins who are quite surprised by the wonders they find. When you see what monkeys can do, you will be too! Did you know skating incorporates math, physics, social interaction, and more galore? Explore how skating opens new horizons for families all over the world. Take a journey with them and uncover common personality differences and similarities, learn about self-expression, and sharpen communication skills, all through the medium of skating. Colorful comic book style art and creative and clever rhymes reminiscent of Dr. Seuss make skating easy and fun for everyone. Adults and children alike will love them, and pick them again and again as they pursue a wonderful new world of fun, education, laughter, and quality family time. All the ingredients to make these books instant classics. If you’re an absolute beginner, an experienced skater, or anything in between, you’ll love Jenny Jen’s My First Skate Book Series, and you’ll see skating in a whole new way! Jenny Jen has skated her way across magazines, newspapers, television, and radio-- including Discovery’s The Learning Channel, Comcast SportsNet, and a variety of shows on FOX, NBC, ABC and CBS. Basketball legend Dr. J (aka Julius Erving) and actor John Cusack are among her celebrity students. She also worked with 5-time Olympic Gold Medal speed skating champion Bonnie Blair. Determined to make skating easy and fun for everyone, she started rhyming like Dr. Seuss and reasoning like Sir Isaac Newton. She raps her rhymes on skates to demonstrate. To share her instructional rhymes with the world, she formed a band, Jenny Jen and Taki76 (formerly Phat Sk8trax). They landed a top ten single of the year in the Village Voice with their debut track, “Boogie Back Rap.” Jenny Jen was also featured in XXL Magazine, the world’s biggest hip hop magazine. She wrote her thesis on skating at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and after graduation, earned her certification as an international in-line skate instructor. This is the first volume in the MY FIRST SKATE BOOK series, a collection of books designed to open a whole new world of fun and rewarding activity for the entire family. Skating, an activity that is multicultural as well as multigenerational, is everywhere-- in movies, on television, and in rinks and skate centers in every community. Skating pros appear in TV shows, commercials, music videos, musicals, cartoons, movies, and the news. Almost everyone goes skating at some point during their childhood. But how much do you really know about it? Get ready for a few surprises! In these delightful books, the reader will learn that ice skating and roller skating are just the beginning. Hockey, figure, speed skating, roller derby, dancing, aggressive, and other forms of skating are brought to a new audience from a fresh point of view. Develop a basic understanding of skating and related vocabulary. Have fun while improving coordination, establishing healthy physical fitness and exercise habits, and so much more. The MY FIRST SKATE BOOK series is one that parents and children will share and enjoy for years to come. The bright, dynamic artwork captures the imagination, and the clever, tongue-twisting rhymes helps improve language skills, both written and spoken. Kids just learning to read, and more advanced readers who want to improve their skills, will love all the books in this unique book series.