Meet JINKS & O'HARE, the brilliant repair team who keep FUNFAIR MOON running smoothly. Until one day CHAOS strikes... EMILY is determined to lend a hand - even if no one has asked her to. But can she relaly help with a VIOLENT FUDGESPLOSION, a GRAVITY INVERSION and a MARAUDING CANDYFLOSS CREATURE? Or does this spell DOOM for Funfair Moon?
Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for a number of years while also co-writing, producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.
Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons for around forty children's books, including the best-selling Horrible Histories, Murderous Maths and Dead Famous series.
Railhead, published by Oxford University Press, will be published in the UK in October 2015
Pugs of the Frozen North, written with Sarah McIntyre, is out now.
Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre are excellent collaborators and my children have enjoyed all of their books so far – including Oliver and the Seawigs, Cakes in Space and Pugs of the Frozen North. This includes a similar mix of storyline and illustrations, humour and action.
Emily lives on Funfair Moo, where there are the highest helter-skelters, the longest roller coasters, the bounciest trampolines, the scariest ghost train and the most delicious candyfloss in the entire galaxy. She sleeps above the Lost Property Office, where she had hatched from an egg that was left in the park. Her room is next to Jinks & O’Hare’s office, where the repair team keep the funfair running smoothly. Everything runs like clockwork until, well, it doesn’t and chaos reigns…
This is such a fun story – full of aliens, funfair inspectors, candyfloss creatures and general mayhem. I think the illustrations really add to the fun and, with just over 200 pages, plus pictures to break up the text, this is ideal for children moving on from first chapter books to slightly longer novels. Saying that, this will appeal to children of all ages and I love the fact that Philip Reeve writes for both boys and girls and the whole design of this book is a joy.
Emily este o fetiță de 10 ani ce locuiește pe Lună, în cadrul unui bâlci, anume la Oficiul pentru Obiecte Pierdute. Ea s-a născut dintr-un ou mare, ce fusese uitat de cineva, și astfel a ajuns la OpOP. Ce am mai putea spune de Emily este că are o coadă (adevărată, doar a eclozat, deci totul e posibil) și că este fan reparații utilajelor.
Când nu este la școală, atunci se află în preajma celor 2 mecanici ai bâlciului, Cobe și Colți.
Odată cu iminenta și ciudata apariție a inspectorului Dosdelună la bâlci, au loc o serie de incidente suspecte ce periclitează atât siguranță extratereștrilor veniți din toate colțurile galaxiei, dar și închiderea acestui centru.
Oare Emily o să reușească să-și demonstreze aptitudinile, dar să dejoace planul lui Dosdelună?
They did it again. Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre wrote and illustrated yet another book that was fun, delightful, and just unputdownable.
Yes, this book will grab you from the first page, and then hold you until the last page. Even when you have to sleep (because you fall asleep), you will be thinking about this book as you fall asleep, and when you wake up it will be the first thing again.
The book is about Emily and her life on Funfair Moon. Yes, that is right, this girl lives on a moon that is full of funfair things. From rollercoasters to candy floss, to helter skelters (or skelter helters) to giant ducky catching things. The moon is full of stuff for everyone, big, small, tiny. Everyone can come and enjoy the funfair. And Emily lives smack-dab in there, she was found as an egg (yes, don’t even ask) and when she hatched she got adopted. She has one big wish and that is to be part of the Jinks and O’Hare Funfair Repair team. She knows she can do it, she really wants to, she tries to help them, but Jinks (mostly him at least) doesn’t want it, he thinks she is too young. Luckily she will have a chance to proof herself in this book, in a really fun way.
Because this book is all about 1 day. Yes, I can hear you think, just 1 day? Wow. It starts with Emily waking up, stuff is breaking down (mysteriously), an inspector pops by (for no reason), and thus begins a rollercoaster of a day. With mysteries, problems to solve, and Emily is working really hard and I was so happy and impressed by what she all did. She never once did stop, she just continued. I loved seeing what she all did in that day. She is really smart, resourceful, and a fun character.
But it was also a delight to see Jinks and O’Hare, and all the other characters. We sure got a diverse cast, and I just loved all of them. Oh wait, no, I didn’t like that inspector guy. Dear Lord, he was terrible. Yes, he was worse than that overlord Krull that popped by.
We read and see about most, if not all, attractions on the moon, and I can say that I was just dying to dive into the book and just go to that moon. I wanted to go in that Skelter Helter, I wanted to go on the rollercoasters, I wanted to visit the ghosts.
The whodunnit (as there is a lot of breaking down happening and that isn’t normal) was fun, and also very cute (at least at the end, that is all I will say).
The ending was brilliant, and I was happy for everyone, most of all for Emily. She sure deserved that after all that happened. Miss Weebly quickly became another favourite character of mine. She started off a bit meek, but wow, she sure became awesome.
I also loved seeing characters from other books (or art) by this duo pop up. From the Dartmoor Pony, to the pugs and the monkeys, to the cake monsters. It was a feast to see them all head to the Funfair Moon and have a great day out.
The art was (of course) fabulous. I just love Sarah McIntyre’s style of drawing, she has such a fun one.
Would I recommend this book? Oh yes I would! This is one that everyone should read.
Another book from the Reeve & McIntyre partnership, producing heavily illustrated (using a very small palette) short-ish stories for children. I have more or less enjoyed the previous three, though not as much as I enjoy Reeve's solo work, so was not particularly expecting much from this going in. So found myself pleasantly surprised with what is a pretty fun and enjoyable little book.
The story follows a 10 year old (or almost 10 year old) girl called Emily. She lives at a funfair, in space, on a moon entirely dedicated to being a funfair. Now there are quite a lot of people who live on this Funfair Moon, plenty of families operating rides in true carnie style, but that is not Emily's tale. Apparently she was left there as a baby, she hatched with no parents about, so she was taken to Lost Property - she has her own bedroom there now.
Emily loves the fair and especially looks up to the people who found her long ago, Jinks and O'Hare the Funfair Repair men. If anything breaks on this bizarre moon, they are the ones to fix it -- Emily wants to be an engineer too and join their company, but she is rather little, but a girl can dream. Alas, there's an inspector coming from the galactic council and he is a killjoy twit, he could shut her home down! Just when all the rides are starting to break down mysteriously as well. Emily must help Jinks and O'Hare (he really is hairy) to save the day, if she can get them to let her.
I whizzed through this, it's quite genious and has a laugh round every corner, for me at least.
Reeve, Philip Carnival In a Fix, illustrated by Sarah McIntyre. 224 pages. CHAPTER BOOK. Random House, 2017. $12.99. Content: Language: G (0 swears) Mature Content: G Violence: G.
Emily has lived on Funfair Moon above the Lost Property Office since she hatched from an unclaimed egg almost ten years ago. When not in school, Emily enjoys watching Mr. Jinks and Mr. O’Hare check the rides and repair any that need fixing. Although she’d love to help them, they don’t enjoy having a, “little hatchling interfering.” But on this particular day, many of the rides seem to be malfunctioning. This happens to be the same day that Mr. Moonbottom has arrived to conduct a health and safety inspection and Lord Krull’s son Colin goes missing. Can Emily help save the day and Funfair Moon?!
As an adult, I read this book and wasn’t hugely impressed. However, my almost nine-year-old son had been itching to read this book since he saw it. Since he’s the appropriate age of the intended audience, I was curious to hear his review. He really enjoyed the book. He liked the carnival theme and reading about all of the different rides. He found the illustrations humorous and really liked the cotton-candy monster. I think other kids his age will find this book as entertaining and humorous as he did. This is the fourth book in Reeve and McIntyre’s Not-So-Impossible Tale series and you bet my son has asked me to get him the other books to read!
2.5* Jinks and O'Hare reminded me of Mike and Sully off Monsters Inc. (I assume that's the kind of vibe the authors were going for rather than a gay couple who work together as well.)
My issue with this story is that I really didn't like the fact that the main characters kept lying to the inspector guy. It was almost like the book was justifying lying because the guy seemed a bit of a stickler for the rules, and yet the funfair moon is falling apart all over the place, so in terms of health and safety the guy has definitely got a point. It felt like cutting corners and risking other people's safety just to stay open, which seemed very morally dubious. Now I know... [SPOILER AHEAD]... .... ... .. . that the inspector actually sabotaged the whole fair and all the problems come from him. But when they're lying to him, they don't know that. And that's my problem. To make it out that people concerned about the safety of a funfair with potentially dangerous rides is a big spoilsport just didn't seem to be the best message.
But the illustrations are lush as usual, though the little Rustlers looked a bit too much like the dust sprites from Studio Ghibli films. And the characters, apart from when they're lying, are great. The story is very creative and wacky too.
CW: 'Fatty' p.21 'Twits' p.175 Headless ghost with her head on her lap and then later carries it in a handbag. Skeletons and ghosts.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
The books by this author and illustrator are excellent for introducing children to longer stories. My 6 year old usually chooses short stories with big garish pictures but reading Pirates Love Underpants for the 1 millionth time can get a bit tiring (as wonderful as those books are!)
As with Cake In Space and Oliver and the Seawigs, Funfair Repair offers a pretty tame yet crazy and completely impossible tale lead by a child hero. The book is packed with fun illustrations which helps to keep little listeners interested but what really makes this story special is spotting various characters who have appeared in other stories. My son was delighted to find the Poglites from Cake in Space and the Sea Monkeys from Oliver and the Seawigs amongst the visitors to Fun Fair Moon.
Another classic stand alone adventure from Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. A beautifully produced book telling the story of Emily who lives on Funfair Moon. What has happened to all the fabulous rides that suddenly start malfunctioning? Time for Jinks and O"Hare to leap into action to help the protagonist Emily as she tries to unravel the mystery.....funny, heart warming and truly beautifully illustrated this is another story from master storyteller, Philip Reeve. Like the previous standalone volumes such as the wonderful Cakes in Space this book is entertaining, gripping and funny all at the same time. Great characters are literally drawn both in print and on the page as this uber collaboration produces another wonderful book.. Highly entertaining and recommended.
Avaruushuvipuistossa asuva Emily haluaisi enemmän kuin mitään muuta olla huvipuistokorjaaja, mutta suhteellisen persoonallinen vakihenkilökunta ei päästä tyttöä mukaan treenaamaan - kunnes koittaa päivä, jolloin huvipuistoon saapuu tarkastaja ja koko paikka menee nurinniskoin. Kummitukset karkaavat, hattara muuttuu raivoisaksi hirviöksi, jättiankkalammikko aiheuttaa tulvan jajaja...
Homman kruunaa Dart Vader-look alike, joka on kadottanut poikansa puistoon ja mielellään räjäyttelisi ja tuhoaisi vähän jotain. Tai aika paljonkin.
Hyvä kuvitus, menevä juoni, kakkosvinkkauksiin mukaan.
We're huge fans (read together with youngest child) of Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve books and Jinks and O'Hara Funfair Repair didn't disappoint. This book is a joy to read out loud (and not all children's books are easy to read out loud!) with stunning illustrations. The story zips along and it's difficult to stop at the end of each chapter, both of us wanting to continue the story rather than switching the light off for bed!
Nyt osui käteen kyllä aikast kummallinen kirja. Seikkailua, joo. Avaruusolentoja, joo. Katkera Darth vader tyyppinen pahis, joo. Orpo ja väärinymmärretty päähenkilö, joo. Hieno oranssi-musta-valkoinen kuvitus, joo. Lastenkirja, joo mutta ei siitä ihan helpoimmasta päästä kuitenkaan. Hauska, joo tai ehkä tai emt. Mutta lainaan meni heti. Täytynee luettaa tämä vielä kotona omilla asiantuntijoilla, niin ehkä tämä mielikuva tästä kirkastuu.
Njäh. Tämä oli kuitenkin näistä Reeveistä (mopsit, meriperuukit ja tämä) paras mitä nyt yritin noita muita lukea. Ehkä huvipuisto on ympäristönä samastuttavampi kuin saaristomeri tai joku lumi. Joku näissä silti mättää. Ehkä se on tuo elokuvamainen vauhti, kun näkee silmissään ne Mikko Leppilammen tai Jukka Rasilan dubbaamat oliot. Suomalaiset vastaavat ilottelut vetävät minua perässään paljon paremmin. Ja siis Buster Baylissit toimii kyllä.
A fun, light-hearted story about a young girl living at a funfair who refuses to give up in the face of a challenge and ends up saving the day. Pugs of the Frozen North has been very popular among my students and I think this one will go over well, too.
*I received a free review copy of this book from the publisher through my district library services*
Philip Reeve has the gift of storytelling and, especially in this case, of worldbuilding (who doesn't like the idea of an amusement park for all kinds of aliens?), while Sarah McIntyre gives life to his stories in a way that makes me want to frame every illustration in this book. All of the stories from these duo are wholesome, exciting and enjoyable so I very much recommend all of them.
This was a very creative and enjoyable book. As an adult reading I have it 3 stars, but I can easily see how kids would give it 5 stars. The characters are cute and Emily the main character is easy to identify with. I highly recommend this series.
I preferred Pugs of the Frozen North to this one. It took Alice longer to get into. I finally bribed her and she finished the whole book in a single sitting :)
Ei hetkenkään lepoa tässä tarinassa, kun huvipuistossa on tavallista haastavampi päivä! Alakoulun 2-4lk. vinkkaukseen, hyvin lukeville ekaluokkalaisille myös.
חביב, אבל לא מעבר לזה. הכתיבה נחמדה (כולל רפרנסים תרבותיים נחמדים למבוגרים), הציורים מגניבים, אבל העלילה די ריקה מתוכן. כלבלבי הצפון משמעותית טוב יותר.