The Attack of the Alien Brain
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- 39,00 kr
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- 39,00 kr
Utgivarens beskrivning
Hi! I'm Oliver Tibbs (some people call me 'Oliver Fibbs') and everyone in my family is super-brilliant at something - chess, ballet, brain surgery and architecture - but I'm not brilliant at anything. Show and Tell (or as I call it: Pain and Torture Time) is my worst nightmare . . . I haven't got a black belt at karate or made a mega-powerful electro-magnet. All I'm good at is reading comics and eating pizza. But I'm fed up with being Dull and Boring, so I've been telling the class about my adventures as a Defender of Planet Earth - battling against the evil Alien Brain Drain who wants to take over the world! Everyone loved it except Miss Wilkins, who gave me a detention for telling fibs. Now my parents think I'm Going Bad. I keep telling them - THEY'RE NOT FIBS, THEY'RE STORIES!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Playful typography, comic-strip sequences, and off-the-cuff storytelling combine entertainingly in this first book in the Oliver Fibbs series, originally published in the U.K. in 2013. Oliver wishes he were "brilliant" like his family, but he feels mediocre in every way. After he translates his love of comics and their hyperbolic storylines into a habit of telling "Big Fat Fibs," life gets a lot more interesting. It's madcap silliness from start to finish, and readers will easily recognize that Oliver's powers of imagination are plenty "brilliant" by book's end. Simultaneously available: Oliver Fibbs and the Giant Boy-Munching Bugs. Ages 7 10.
