Interacting with Cheesie Mack
Readers will find more than just words in Cheesie’s books because he’s a fictional character with a real website. Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything contains more than 20 links that lift the narrative off the page and into the online world. Like this one on page 137:
“What’s the matter?” Georgie asked once we were inside and changing out of our swimsuits.
“You better be careful how many kids you ask to your pizza party.”
Georgie didn’t respond. He just grabbed his wet swimsuit off the floor with his toes and flipped it backward up over his head. Georgie is a very excellent athlete. He didn’t even look. He just stuck his hands out in front of him, and the suit flew over his head and landed-plop-right on them. (I cannot do this. But I have a diagram of how to do it on my website. You can try it if you want.)
Will middle-grade readers successfully flip socks and underwear up and over their heads? (Click here, and you can try.)
Cheesie offers online, hip, fun extensions to the reading experience. It’s new. It’s 21st century. It’s Cheesie Mack!
