Surf Sharks: the First Ride is the first book in the series, and I was able to review it, with the help of my kids. I was sent a 38 page full color hardback book, 32 full color Surf Sharks stickers, a full color sticker book, 6 pop up collector cards and a full color bookmark.
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In recent years, there’s been a growing fascination with sharks, as one can see by the annual “Shark Week”! It is now available in all major book stores and online via Amazon Kindle and iTunes/iBooks in eBook version. The debut book introduces the surfing sharks – MAVRIK, TALON and HEMI along with their surfer dude friends, RIP, OZZY and WADE as they find that by working together, they can take on even the biggest problems.
About the Author:
Born in 1963 and raised in Eastern Washington, Chance showed a passion for art from the time he could hold a pencil. As a child, he devoted much of his time nose-deep into comic books admiring the art and mimicking it the best he could on any piece of paper available (including his homework). Selling his first piece of art at age 11 was a clear indicator of a prospering career as an Illustrator that has now spanned over three decades.
As a young adult, his desire to grow as an artist motivated him to focus on his drawing skills as he hit the drawing board to hone his childhood comic book passion. His path towards becoming a professional comic book artist began when his talents were discovered by an associate of iconic industry creative Todd McFarlane. Chance began a tenure with McFarlane that would span over ten years, allowing the new artist to work on internationally recognized comic book titles such as Shadowhawk, Spawn and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just to name a few.
Chance worked side by side with Todd, assisting in drawing the number one selling comic book Spawn and was called upon to join with a team of artists to handle the task of Main Character Designers for the HBO Emmy Award winning Animated Series Spawn, in which Chance received and Emmy Certificate acknowledging his work on the series. Chance became Todd’s right hand man on numerous assignments, including toy action figure art direction, designs for licensees and convention booth creation. Chance was hand-picked by Todd to visit with X-Files creator Chris Carter in Hollywood in order to help finalize designs for McFarlane’s popular X-Files toy line.
Observing his son’s fascination with sharks, Chance was inspired to create Surf Sharks, which he has launched as a book series, with the first release Surf Sharks: The First Ride now available in all leading book stores in hard cover and online as an eBook via Amazon Kindle and iTunes/iBooks.
This was a fun book to read to my kids, they loved hearing it and seeing all the colorful pictures! They also love playing with the stickers and the sticker book! I really look forward to reading the second book in the series when it comes out! I'm sure my kids will love it just as much, also.
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