April 9, 2019 • Page 16 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com The Bookworm ... For Young Readers ‘Power Up’ Is Energizing Fun “Power Up: Your Incredible, Spectacular, Supercharged Body” by Seth Fishman, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg; © 2019, HarperCollins Children’s Books. 40 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER You are a really great kid. You can run fast and jump high. You can smile and sing and catch a ball. You might even know how to make a sandwich or help out around the house. You’re pretty awesome all around, but in “Power Up” by Seth Fishman, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg, your insides are especially incredible. Here’s something you might not know: You’re a fireball from the skies. No, really. If you could look inside your body, you’d find the same ingredients that make stars. And get this: if you could harness it properly, your littlest finger on your right hand has energy enough to run millions of refrigerators and TVs, light up hundreds of schools, and run an entire city’s worth of stoplights. All on the same day! It takes energy to do everything; even just sitting and listening to music or reading a piece of paper takes energy. The bones and muscles inside you take energy to keep you singing and jumping and smiling, from the smallest bone inside your head to the largest bone in your thigh, from the smallest muscle in your ear to your largest muscle, the one you’re sitting on! Human beings have energy to run longer than the fastest animal on earth. They can create musical instruments and make songs. Humans learned to cook food, to invent cars and trains, to build cities and sidewalks, and to look for stars in the skies. Maybe we’re even looking for another fireball… The thing to remember about the energy inside your body is that sometimes, it needs to replenish. That can be done by eating food that’s good for you, getting a full nights’ sleep, and being active every day. If you get all these things and you take care of the energy machine that is your body, then your brain is cared-for, too. And that brain? It lets you imagine and invent, do math, work on a computer and understand science, remember important things and unimportant things. It keeps you interesting, funny and smart. It makes you powered up. Time and again, in a dozen ways, you’ve told your child that he or she is important and special. He knows it’s true. Let “Power Up” show her in even more ways. Through quickly-read pages brimming with facts, and artwork that’s as action-packed as the words it accompanies, author Seth Fishman and illustrator Isabel Greenberg teach their audience with a “geewhiz” tone that takes information to kid-level but without dumbing it down. Young readers may be skeptical at what they’ll learn (you might, too!) but Fishman takes care of that by including two pages in the back of his book to further explain the science and biology involved. That underscores what’s mentioned in earlier pages and it will encourage a deeper curiosity and interest in further exploration. For the 4- to 8-year-old who goes nonstop, this is a great introduction to STEM learning, and it’s fun to read, too. “Power Up” could be the right book for the greatest kid you know. ‘Save It For Side 2!’: Vermillion’s Movie Theater Adopts New Business Strategy VERMILLION —The Vermillion Cultural Association (VCA), the local nonprofit that owns and operates the Coyote Twin Theater has put in place a new movie-booking strategy focused on cost management. This change is prompted by the findings of the VCA’s 2018 Annual Report, which was released at the end of March. “Our number-one cost at the Coyote Twin is studio fees,” said VCA executive director Shannon Cole. “We pay studios an advance to guarantee digital access to upcoming movies — so that’s a cost paid before a movie even gets on screen—and then we pay a percentage of the ticket sales for each movie to its distributing studio at the end of the run.” That percentage can be anywhere between 35 percent and 65 percent, depending on when the film is screened and the expected demand for the film. “Studios require a higher percentage for first-run films, the movies we premiere. And movies expected to be big hits will even go up from there,” said Cole. “Disney had a 64 percent take for ‘Captain Marvel,’ for example.” According to the National Association of Theater Owners, the average studio take of ticket sales was up 6.7 percent in 2018, and the Coyote Twin felt the pinch. In 2018, “the cost of first-run movies averaged 61 percent of ticket sales at the Coyote Twin,” said Greg Redlin, VCA treasurer. That steep cost contributed to a net operating loss for the Twin last year, the first in the VCA’s three years of ownership. But the VCA has a plan to turn things around. “We’ve set a target studio take of 50–55 percent to try to restore some balance at the gate,” said VCA board president Bill Anderson. “But that will mean bringing in more second-run films in between first-run blockbusters.” The plan, said Anderson, is to use the RED Steak- Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: ADULT BOOKS • Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t by Edward Humes, nonfiction • In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter by Angalia Bianca, nonfiction • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer, nonfiction • The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain by Sarah Shockley, nonfiction • The Soul of a Team: A Modern-Day Fable for Winning Teamwork by Tony Dungy, nonfiction • The Warner Boys: Our Family’s Story of Autism and Hope by Ana Warner, nonfiction • Broken Ground by Val McDermid, fiction • Celtic Empire: A Dirk Pitt Novel by Clive Cussler, fiction • That Churchill Woman by Stephanie Barron, fiction • Eaves of Destruction by Kate Carlisle, fiction • Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley, fiction • The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden, fiction • Final Shadows by Kay Hooper, fiction • First, Kill the Lawyers by David Housewright, fiction • The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib, fiction • Glitter Bomb by Laura Childs, fiction • Letters From Peaceful Lane by Janet Dailey, fiction • The Line Between by Tosca Lee, fiction • The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk, fiction • The Rule of Law by John Lescroart, fiction • Run for Your Life by Mark Cucuzzella, fiction • The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher, fiction • Summer at the Garden Café by Felicity HayesMcCoy, fiction • Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones, fiction • This is Not a Love Letter by Kim Purcell, fiction • Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal, fiction • Flawed by Andrea Dorfman, fiction graphic novel LARGE PRINT BOOKS • Turning Point by Danielle Steel, fiction YOUNG ADULT BOOKS • Battle Born by Cassandra Rose Clarke, fiction • People Like Us by Dana Mele, fiction • Slayer by Kiersten White, fiction • The Giver by P. Craig Russell, fiction graphic novel JUNIOR BOOKS • An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare, nonfiction • The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs, nonfiction • Goo Makers by Kelly Halls, nonfiction • NBA’s Top 10 Rivalries by Bria Hall, nonfiction • Science in Motion by Lisa Amstutz, nonfiction • Lucky Little Things by Janice Erlbaum, fiction • Magic Treehouse: Warriors in Winter by Mary Pope Osborne, fiction • News From Me, Lucy McGee by Mary Amato, fiction • No Escape: A Tale of Terror by Brandon Terrell, fiction • Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly, fiction • Stairway to Doom by Robert Quackenbush, fiction • Waking Nightmare by Carly Anne West, fiction • The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks, fiction graphic novels EASY READING BOOKS • All About Broken Bones by Francesca Potts, nonfiction • Hungry for Science: Poems to Crunch On by KariLynn Winters, nonfiction • My First 500 Words: I Got Them!, nonfiction • We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands by Rafael López, nonfiction • All My Stripes: A Story for Children With Autism by Shaina Rudolph, fiction • Best Friends in the Universe by Stephanie Watson, fiction • Bicycle to Treachery by Robert Quackenbush, fiction • Chase’s Loose Tooth by Casey Neumann, fiction • Clara and Clem in Outer Space by Ethan Long, fiction • Drop It, Rocket! by Tad Hills, fiction • Everything I Know About Poop by Jaume Copons, fiction • Littles: And How They Grow by Kelly DiPucchio, fiction • My “a” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure, fiction • Nerdy Birdy Tweets by Aaron Reynolds, fiction • Poe Won’t Go by Kelly DiPucchio, fiction • The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet by Carmen Agra Deedy, fiction • Ten Magic Butterflies by Danica McKellar, fiction Need Garden Tilling Done? YANKTON CITYWIDE RUMMAGE canopy spoons fire pit rakes vinyl records bike rakes fire pit fire pit household snow blower spoons yard ornaments rakes . nouncing.. An house Auditorium (side 1) for those big, first-run films and “flex” the second auditorium (side2) for second-run or notable films that Vermillion didn’t catch on the break. This is different from the previous model of premiering a film each week. “Save it for side 2!” recommends VCA vice president Michelle Maloney. “We’ll get to most movies eventually, maybe two weeks after they come out. And if you wait you can save money with a cheaper ticket and not having to drive out of town.” “It’s not a missed opportunity, it’s an opportunity,” said Amy Christenson, owner of Blue Monarch Boutique and sponsor of the VCA’s Chick Flick Club series. “Catching a movie on the second round gives you a chance to read reviews and reinvigorate excitement.” The VCA was created to preserve cinema in Vermillion, and although the organization’s mission has expanded that founding goal hasn’t changed. “Movies aren’t the only thing we do as the VCA, but they’re the flashiest and the support we get from the community shows us the Twin is pretty important to Vermillion,” said Cole. USD’s Dean of Students Kim Grieve agrees the Twin is a draw. “The movie theatre provides an excellent venue for USD students to engage in the community and enjoy high-quality entertainment,” said Grieve. “Film is part of life and culture in our city, our state, the country, the world. 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