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Mega Mash-Up
Mega Mash-Up: Aliens vs. Mad Scientists Under the Ocean
Draw your own adventure!
These books take great subjects for boys and combine them into short, bonkers, and funny stories that are incredibly easy to read. The illustrations are bold and crazy, and there's plenty of space left on each page — together with suggestions for how to fill it — so kids can add their own drawings. The books read as hilarious, zippy stories that look a lot like novels but are terrific doodle books as well.
The earth is in peril! Aliens are trying to stop it from spinning so that everyone will fall off and they can take over. Mwa-ha-ha-ha! But fear not! The Mad Scientists are building a genius underwater machine to save the day. If only the Aliens would stop zapping them with their Frazzelizers. . . .
These books take great subjects for boys and combine them into short, bonkers, and funny stories that are incredibly easy to read. The illustrations are bold and crazy, and there's plenty of space left on each page — together with suggestions for how to fill it — so kids can add their own drawings. The books read as hilarious, zippy stories that look a lot like novels but are terrific doodle books as well.
The earth is in peril! Aliens are trying to stop it from spinning so that everyone will fall off and they can take over. Mwa-ha-ha-ha! But fear not! The Mad Scientists are building a genius underwater machine to save the day. If only the Aliens would stop zapping them with their Frazzelizers. . . .
96 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2011
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Nikalas Catlow
100 books8 followersNikalas Catlow has been doodling and drawing since childhood, and received his MA in Children's Book Illustration. Catlow lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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March 12, 2013
This may have been the best $10 I have ever spent AND the best thing I have gotten out of the monthly Scholastic book order we get from the school.
My seven year old son has spent every spare minute of the last two days working on this book. And after so many evenings spent putting up a fight when he has to do his 15 minutes of reading aloud for his homework, tonight he insisted on reading this book in its entirety to me and my husband. This took about 45 minutes, as it turned into a dramatic reading with musical interludes.
Confirms my belief that the readers they have to read for school are, for the most part, a snooze-fest and that if you give boys something that really piques their interest, they will want to read, be it Captain Underpants, superhero books, non-fiction, Lego books, or series such as this one.
My seven year old son has spent every spare minute of the last two days working on this book. And after so many evenings spent putting up a fight when he has to do his 15 minutes of reading aloud for his homework, tonight he insisted on reading this book in its entirety to me and my husband. This took about 45 minutes, as it turned into a dramatic reading with musical interludes.
Confirms my belief that the readers they have to read for school are, for the most part, a snooze-fest and that if you give boys something that really piques their interest, they will want to read, be it Captain Underpants, superhero books, non-fiction, Lego books, or series such as this one.
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