Kevin Hart is an award-winning actor, a comedian, and a number one New York Times bestselling author. But as Marcus discovers, nothing great ever is-and if you want your dream to come true, you’ve got to put in the hustle to make it happen.Ĭomedy superstar Kevin Hart teams up with award-winning author Geoff Rodkey and lauded illustrator David Cooper for a hilarious, illustrated, and inspiring story about bringing your creative goals to life and never giving up, even when nothing’s going your way. So he’ll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who’d be a perfect movie villain if he weren’t too terrifying to talk to. until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he’s been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series.
Ages 8–12.Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film.
Cooper’s b&w illustrations aptly capture the story’s cued-Black cast.
With its solid comic timing and realistic sense of character and dialogue, this energetic love letter to the artistic process provides both practicality and encouragement. In this exuberant middle grade debut, comedian Hart and coauthor Rodkey ( We’re Not from Here) navigate the complexities of filmmaking, skillfully channeling the craft through the misadventures of Marcus, whose inexperience with the medium and emotional connection to his material prove both creatively hindering and personally cathartic. Though he’s initially intimidated by the amount of work involved in the cinematic creation process, from writing the screenplay to working within a realistic budget, accepting Sierra’s tough-love advice helps him tackle each new Dubious about the program and uninterested in crafting a film from Sierra’s script, Marcus is slowly won over by the idea of filming Toothpick. There, he meets aspiring social influencer Jazmin, music video creator Amari, and would-be writer/director Sierra. Unfortunately, the Afternoon Adventures art class his widower father enrolled him in proves a bad fit for his passion with no better options, he reluctantly joins a filmmaking class. All aspiring artist Marcus wants to do is work on his comics series, which features his daring alter ego, Toothpick.
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