Excerpt of the Text:

Tuck-a-tuck Dragon
Illustrated by Stephan Theo & Nicole Theo;
written by Stephan Theo and JL Morin © 2021

One blustery autumn, three dragons came out
To romp, stomp and tumble and frolic about.
On their way to a sleepover party they flew,
Big Red Dragon, Pink, and Small Green Dragon, too.

Toward Sun Yellow’s huge house, three dragons did fly,
Where they saw seven more dragons mount to the sky!
Old Blue came, and White, made out of cloud,
With a mountain of Purple, who rumbled out loud.

They found the right house, dropped their bags by the wall,
Then started the games for one dragon and all.
The Grey Dragon soared, with his wings full of rain!
And everyone played, until Tan Dragon came.

The last picked for teams, in the game Knights and Knaves,
He was last up the hill, fast asleep in the caves.
They would not let him in, till the rain started pouring,
And said, “There was never ever a dragon so boring.”

Now, to play, play, and play was just never enough,
But without any sleep, it was ever so tough,
So they rolled out their bags, and got in them, each one,
Telling stories to frighten each other for fun…FOR MORE, REQUEST YOUR REVIEW COPY

Fully returnable, Tuck-a-tuck Dragon, is a diverse children’s book
Illustrated by Stephan Theo & Nicole Theo, written by Stephan Theo & award-winning author JL Morin
ISBN: 9781941861769, Hardback; Audio forthcoming; 978-1-941861-79-0 eBook
Harvard Square Editions; 58 pages, 8 x 10 inches
Interest Age Range 0 – 11; Grade Range: pre-Kindergarten to 5th grade
Release date Sept. 1, 2022; USD $16,99
Available through Gardners, Bertram Books, Waterstones, Amazon, Ingram, Coresource, iTunes, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Overdrive, Findaway, B&T, & others
Review copy at the link above

Review of the English edition:

“Here’s a rhyming bedtime story with a difference, JL Morin’s Tuck-a-tuck Dragon, fierily illustrated by Stephan and Nicole Theo. It’s all about an outsider at a draconic sleepover party … Tan Dragon.” ―Bookloons

About the Authors and Illustrators

Stephan Theo, author, illustrator, actor, filmmaker, is a multitalented artist. He painted the paintings in the book, from the age of two over a period of two decades. He co-wrote Tuck-a-tuck Dragon and voice acted the audiobook. He will play in the feature film ’74 directed by Paul Lambis–a story of three youths coping with the division of Cyprus during the war of 1974. He acted in Dog, a film directed by Yianna Americanou and produced by Filmblades Ltd., chronicling the coming of age of a young man who has romanticised his soon-to-be-released-from-prison father to mythic proportions. He performed for the Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture in ‘Out of the Skin’. Stephan, who went to the UCLA Theater, Film, and Televison School for acting, and later Brighton’s Screen and Film School for Filmmaking, got his start when he played Tony in West Side Story.

 

Singer-songwriter and illustrator Nicole Theo also also painted the paintings in the book throughout her childhood over a period of two decades. She composed the guitar music on the audiobook. She launched an EP entitled ‘In My Sleep’ of her original songs in 2019.

 

JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Her cli-fi novels have won numerous awards and are on course syllabi at many universities internationally. Ivy League professors have facilitated discussions with JL Morin’s writing. It is discussed in textbooks such as Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, by Andrew Milner, and J. R. Burgmann, 2020, published by Oxford University Press.