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Kelly and the Krumps
In his second wonderfully whacky children’s novel, Ken Kwek takes a hard—and funny—look at teens beset with academic pressures and technology overload. Kelly Mao has got quite the her tiger mum is threatening to ground her, her tuition timetable barely gives her time to eat, and she suspects her twin brother is up to something. On top of everything, the PSLE is looming! When the pressure gets too intense, Kelly decides to secretly join a dance crew called the Krumps, but slowly she gets entangled in her brother’s troubles with an evil genius named Fang Boy.
155 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2019
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Ken Kwek
3 books4 followersKen Kwek is a screenwriter, film director and playwright. He spent his childhood watching movies on an ancient machine called a VHS player. Ken studied literature at the University of Cambridge and dramatic writing at New York University. He worked as a journalist and a cook for a few years, then wrote and directed several movies that (unfortunately) cannot be viewed on a VHS player. Timothy and the Phubbers is his first children’s novel.
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January 18, 2025
It felt good to be part of a crew, a part of this crew.
A pair of pressure-cooked twins about to take their PSLE go down two very different roads: gymnast Kelly joins her best friend Hanis' hip hop group, and brainbox Nicholas turns to an online gaming league.
I loved Timothy and the Phubbers. This is exactly in that vein, but in the opposite direction -- and the way Kwek portrayed the ruthless perfectionist Mrs Mighty Mao and her obsession with sending Kelly and Nick to endless tuition was far too perfect -- I have known so many Kellys and Nicks in my childhood and I can only hope they're still doing well today. This felt more close to home and realistic compared to Timothy, though . I wish we could have gotten more of the Krumps, . Other than that this is worth reading again for the hilarious one liners and allusions alone, though it feels more in the sense that this is definitely going to be a book that a child will reread when they grow up and get way more of a laugh out of: see Wu, Tang, Klan and M-Pop's line about his mum using the ping-pong paddle on his dad and him liking it.
A pair of pressure-cooked twins about to take their PSLE go down two very different roads: gymnast Kelly joins her best friend Hanis' hip hop group, and brainbox Nicholas turns to an online gaming league.
I loved Timothy and the Phubbers. This is exactly in that vein, but in the opposite direction -- and the way Kwek portrayed the ruthless perfectionist Mrs Mighty Mao and her obsession with sending Kelly and Nick to endless tuition was far too perfect -- I have known so many Kellys and Nicks in my childhood and I can only hope they're still doing well today. This felt more close to home and realistic compared to Timothy, though . I wish we could have gotten more of the Krumps, . Other than that this is worth reading again for the hilarious one liners and allusions alone, though it feels more in the sense that this is definitely going to be a book that a child will reread when they grow up and get way more of a laugh out of: see Wu, Tang, Klan and M-Pop's line about his mum using the ping-pong paddle on his dad and him liking it.
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