10 Little Insects
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 098710991X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The title is filled with Victorian spookiness, until only a detective and his assistant sail away with their lives. The size and format may turn off potential readers who see a picture book rather than a gruesome murder mystery but reluctant readers will find more than enough to engage and amuse them.—Marge Loch-Wouters, La Crosse Public Library, WI . As the hours tick by, the members of the motley crew meet untimely deaths in a variety of macabre ways: poison, freezing, electrocution, being eaten by a fish, and getting beheaded amid secret passages. The boldly colored art in the cartoon panels, while si
Then, one by one, they start dying in very unusual circumstances. A hilarious, innovative riff on Agatha Christie's celebrated whodunnit 10 Little Indians, in graphic novel form For discerning readers who have been crying out for a book featuring a stick insect famous for doing impressions of sticks, a detective with a sidekick who is a three-week old larva, a preying mantis who is deadly with a drinks trolley, and a fly who is just there for the dung—your luck has finally turned! In this innovative graphic novel for younger readers, 10 very different insects, each with something to hide, are brought together to a mysterious house on a secluded island for the weekend. But all is not as it seems, as Cali and Pianina delightfully subvert the whodunnit genre with a story that is at once brilliant, baffling, laugh-out-loud funny, and somewhat surreal.
Picked this up on a lark and loved it. Clever and self-aware riff on the Agatha Christie classic. Genuinely fun characters and dialogue suck you in and the breakneck pacing makes the book fly by. The art seems very child-like at first, but the only serves to play off of the mayhem and murder in hilari