Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780060843199 ISBN: 0060843195 Label: Eos Manufacturer: Eos Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Eos Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Release Date: July 24, 2007 Sales Rank: 309621 Studio: Eos
Two aliens with slimy tentacles and too many eyes fixed on adopting a human son.
Three inventors and a sea serpent, a princess, an orphanage, and two ships full of pirates.
Four fantastic tales by renowned fantasy author Garth Nix.
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Rating: - A Beastly Feast of Fun!
158 pages of aliens, kid inventors, talking pirate rats, faraway castles, and one beastly beast are broken up into four easily palatable short length stories. Garth Nix has a lot of fun inviting his readers to do the same. Brian Biggs' thick-lined, simple, entertaining illustrations intermittently fill the pages just enough but never overwhelm, leaving the bulk of the visuals to develop in the womb of the imagination.
Rating: - Clever & Fun
Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
on 09/20/2007
ONE BEASTLY BEAST: TWO ALIENS, THREE INVENTORS, FOUR FANTASTIC TALES is a collection of four short stories by fantasy author Garth Nix.
In "Blackbread the Pirate," DVDs are stolen from Peter by a gang of pirate rats. Yes, pirate rats! One Captain Erasmus Rattus arrives to take Peter to a magical land in hopes of retrieving the DVDs--they are rentals.
In "The Princess and the Beastly Beast," Princess ... Read More
Rating: - Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Fantasy writer Garth Nix has created a short story collection for the younger set. Exploring the underworld of rat pirates; adoptions of Earthlings by odd, tentacled aliens; a princess literally searching the belly of the beast; and a brainiac solving the dilemmas of a kindhearted sea serpent, Nix introduces young readers to the possibilities of the imagination between the covers of a book.
ONE BEASTLY BEAST is an excellent choice for the reluctant reader. The full manuscript is around 120 ... Read More
- A Beastly Feast of Fun!
- Clever & Fun
