Author: M.T. Anderson
ISBN: 0-15-205340-9
188 pages
Harcourt Inc., 2005 edition
I essentially picked up this title solely for the fact that its' title and cover illustration caught my eye. I almost had to review this one!
Description:
Lily is 12 and her dad has a weird job for a weird man. Her dad's boss is bent on taking over the world and will stop at nothing to do it (even though Lily's dad says that adults use something called "irony" and that she shouldn't take him seriously). Larry, her dad's boss, plans to take over the world with an army of mutant whale fighters with lasers shooting out of their eyes. Lily's two friends Katie and Jasper are nearly as eccentric as her father and his boss Larry, and with their help maybe she can make sense of the ever-stranger situation.
Review:
This book is extremely quirky and self contradicting (on purpose). The illustrations are accordingly strange and the instances that Lily and her friends find themselves in are preposterous. The chapter titles are hilarious ("whale control to major tom" being a really good one) and the text is interspersed with strange, over-sized text. For my taste, Anderson's book seems like it has no attention span and jumps all over the place with the plot seemingly unimportant at times. With that being said, some of the chapters are truly hilarious and the illustrations match them perfectly. The book comes with a fake study guide and fake interview with the author that are totally silly and outrageous (I just hope they don't confuse any of the readers). While not my cup of tea, I could easily envision 'tweens' and younger teens getting a real kick out of this book
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