Friday5: Ricky Ricotta Redux

#Friday5 for February 7th:
5 Things to Know about the Ricky Ricotta Redux

By far the most popular item I brought home from ALA Midwinter was an advanced reader copy of  Dav Pilkey's Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot illustrated anew by the fantabulous Dan Santat.

We were already big Ricky Ricotta fans AND big Dan Santat fans at House5, so this was bound to be pretty exciting.

So here are 5 things to know about the Ricky Ricotta Redux:

#1 - Just in case you had book shelves created specifically to fit your Ricky Ricotta collection, the trim size on the new version is the same. ~whew!~

#2 - Same great story, only now with full color awesomeness!

#3 - Giant Mouse Robots… always just plain cool!

#4 - Some Flip-o-Rama sections now have been replaced with graphic novel sequences created by Dan Santat.

before

after (reminder: this is a photo from the ARC - not final full color art)

#5 - Don't worry, the Flip-O-Rama goodness isn't gone. It's just packed into an epic final battle in Chapter 12. 

Word on the Street:

The Dan Santat-ified versions of the first 4 Ricky Ricotta books will hit shelves in May 2014 with new books every other month after that - including two entirely new books in January and March of 2015!

And that makes all of us at House5 want to go hug a giant mouse robot.

Obligatory disclaimer: All photos of the Dan Santat illustrated version of Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot were taken of an ARC and thus may be subject to change, but probably not, 'cause they're awesome.