Tatum: Herve Storybook

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Z o m b i e s Z o m b i e s w a n t w a n t s o m e s o m e c a n d y c a n d y

Co-written and co-designed by Tatum

Z o m b i e s Z o m b i e s w a n t s o m e w a n t s o m e c a n d y c a n d y Co- m

C O P Y R I G H T © 2 0 2 4 T H E G I A N T R O O M

Tatum Michael is 5 years old and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his mama, dada, and Grandma Rae Rae. He is in kindergarten and in a STEM program. Tatum has two dogs named Noel & Barrett. He loves music and is taking DJ lessons. Some of his favorite songs are: I’m Blue, he loves the Beastie Boys especially Intergalactic, Its Raining Tacos, several Lanky Box songs especially Alphabet Lore, On & On, Bendy Beats, My Stupid Heart by Luminati Suns and Walk off the Earth. He likes fashion and jokes Fashion is His Passion, he picks out some of his own threads. He loves taking art classes and exploring new techniques.

Tatum enjoys Parkour and swimming, running through the woods and jumping in muddy puddles. He enjoys watching Lanky Box, Danny Go, Squirrel Stampede, Lightning Lane, and really enjoys watching Lego Masters building videos. Some of his favorite places are Disney World, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. His favorite rides are Pirates of the Caribbean, Winnie the Pooh, and the Avatar ride. On the weekends he enjoys seeing shows, his recent favorite was Mario the Maker Magician. He loves playing arcade games especially the Zombie Walking Dead at Dave & Busters and also loves the zombie game at Chuck E. Cheese.

A B O U T T H E A U T H O R
Tatum

His favorite artists are Keith Haring and Hervé Tullet and Tim Burton. He loves watching Nightmare Before Christmas, The Grinch, Hotel Transylvania, The Addams Family, Moana, Luca, Teenage Kraken, Elemental, Inside Out, Super Mario Brothers, Beauty & The Beast, Seabeast and all of the Chipmunk movies especially Chipwrecked. He enjoys shows like: The Simpsons, Booba, Dreamzz, Masha and the Bear, Ben & Holly, and Alien TV. He enjoys watching craft & DIY videos and shows like Is it Cake?

He loves building large lego sets and just finished a 600+ Indiana Jones set. He has an amazing collection of Transformers including several vintage ones. He loves playing with some of his Spiderman and Batman toys.

Tatum has a bit of a travel bug and enjoyed a summer time adventure in Italy and hopes to go on more adventures. Tatum currently says he wants to be a Hacker for the FBI and a magician when he grows up.

This book is about tapping into his imagination and his love of candy. His favorite candy spot is Eugene J. Candy Company which is a Halloweenthemed candy store in Brooklyn. It is a sweet shop that sells the yummiest ghoulish candies. It is a place where the spirit of Halloween casts its spell into the mad science of strange, new candies. Tatum loves making fun potions and concoctions. He had his birthday party at the Tiny Scientist because he loves to share his love of potion making. His favorite candies are: Kindereggs, Candy Corn, Airheads, Sour Patch Kids, Reese’s Pieces and experimenting with all the new candies like Toxic Waste or Popin’ Cookin’. He is starting to have an admiration for candies and snacks from Japan.

In this book you will see he originally created the Pig and Snake using clay. He loves experimenting with crafts. His goal with his first book was to create some interesting colorful characters, integrate his love for zombies, and of course, candy, Disney and outer-space.

Tatum‘s Story

Art & Designs

Original artwork

k s t i n

Once upon a time in the cozy town of Disney World, there was a pig – Barney Jackstin, was his name.

Barney was one curious, mischief-loving piggy.

One sunny day, he pulledofftheultimatepiggyescape
...

Oh no! The pig is out and about!

With a snort and a trot, Barney waddled through town

leaving a trailofoinks behind oink! oink! oink!

As Barney marched along, guess what caught his piggy eye? A sparkling pond!

Water, OINK-TASTIC!

Splish! SPLASH!

He went right in, the water gurgled and giggled like it heard a funny joke. Barney and the pond were having a blast!

Barney wasn't satisfied with JUST a splash party..

oh no... he wanted to dive.

With a DEEP breath...

and a snout wiggle,

he went right in, n o sedive !

Water rippled, bubbles popped, and Barney disappeared.
nt,

until he bumped into a snake. You couldn't miss him, with those shiny rainbow scales.

Hey there, Barney! Fancy meeting you underwater!

the snake greeted with a hiss.

I want to be friends with you, but WATCH OUT! There are zombies!

All of a sudden, the zombies turn the pig and snake into zombies too, and the zombies want their candy!

After the zombies come, the pig and snake start eating rocks. They go crazy and pretend that they are blueberry rock candy!

Then, after they go crazy, they go swim in the water again.

The water is the cure to turn them back into a normal pig and a normal snake.

The zombies decide to leave and plan to travel to New York to get more new and ghoulish candy at the sweetest shop, Eugene J. Candy Co.!

After the pig and snake got out of the water, a turtle came all the way from... New

New York York CITY. CITY.

The New York City turtle said,

The zombie is coming to get me!

A G I A N T t h a n k y o u t o T a t u m M i c h a e l , h i s f a m i l y , a n d t h e G I A N T t e a m m e m b e r s

w h o m a d e t h i s p u b l i c a t i o n p o s s i b l e .

Book Concept and Planning

Azadeh Jamalian, PhD

Janet Bloom

Rebecca Schifilliti

Book Illustration & Design

Tatum Michael

Michelle Rembert

Rebecca Schifilliti

Herve Tullet

Story Writing

GIANT Kids Tatum Michael

Rebecca Schifilliti

A B O U T

The GIANT Room

The GIANT Room is a creative STEM hub for kids with GIANT dreams who dare to act on them. We help kids to use STEM as a tool for self expression, creativity, and collaboration.

The GIANT Room offers after school programs, camps, family events, specialized co-design workshops with industry designers, and online creative bootcamp membership. Kids may join our programs online, inperson at our studio, or off-site at one of our partner locations in museums and schools.

Founded by two women with PhDs in education and backgrounds in science and engineering, we dream of a world where every child has the confidence to voice their ideas, have access to mentors and resources they need to build prototypes of their ideas, and the opportunity to share those ideas with their community... just like the GIANT kid who published their collaborative, creative work in this beautiful storybook to be shared with millions of families around the world.

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