Do Your Kids Like Slime?

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We’ve gone through a multi-year slime phase in our house, much to the dismay of our kitchen table. When we discovered there was basically an amusement park for slime called Sloomoo Institute, the kids were hooked! It’s an immersive experience, birthday party venue, and sensory sensation with make-your-own-slime, get slimed walls, walk barefoot in smooth sand, and other tactile experiences.

Now bestselling author Melissa De La Cruz and Mike Johnston have turned founders Karen Robinovitz and Sara Schiller’s destination into a graphic novel Sloomoo: Making Friends. (Karen and Sara united after both of them had been felled by unspeakable losses and found joy through playing with slime.) They’ll be at Zibby’s Bookshop this Sunday (me too!) from 10 am - 11 am and will be hosting a kids’ experience. Listen to the episode and come by!

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.8	Melissa Dayla Cruz and Sarah Schiller are here to talk about Slu-Moo making friends a graphic novel.
0:52.3	By the way, Slu-Mu is the S the Sluo Institute. It's a place. It has
0:56.2	locations all around the country. And my kids have been to birthday parties there, hosted birthday
1:02.1	party there in New York. We've been to the one in L.A. And if you haven't been, and if you have
1:07.4	kids between the ages of, I don't know, two and 18, I guess like kids in
1:12.8	general, you should go. Melissa Dela Cruz has been on this podcast before. She is the number one New York
1:18.0	Times and number one publishers weekly and number one indie-bound bestselling author of many
1:23.3	critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages and creates and develops
1:29.4	intellectual property for Disney throughout its platforms. Her novel, The Isle of Lost,
1:33.9	the prequel to the Disney Channel original movie Descendants, spent more than 50 weeks on the New York
1:39.0	Times bestseller list, 15 of those at number one. How amazing is that. She teamed up with the founders of
1:47.4	Slu-Mu to write this book. They are both incredibly accomplished women in their own rights as
1:52.8	entrepreneurs who teamed up in the face of really hard times and came together to create magic.
2:00.1	So to Karen Rabinowitz and Sarah Schiller, we are so
2:03.6	grateful for you. Welcome so much, Sarah and Melissa. Thanks so much for coming on totally booked
2:08.2	to talk about all the things, Slu-Moo, your new graphic novel, slime. I mean, we have so many
2:16.7	fun places to go today. Thank you. We're excited. Very much.
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