The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
A Progressive Story Game
Author: Natl Children's Book & Literacy Alliance
Twenty top kids' authors and illustrators, including Jon Sciezka, Kate DiCamillo, Jack Gantos, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Dusen, collaborate on this zany, progressive story filled with werewolves, mad scientists, a talking pig, and 11-year-old twins on a quest to rescue their parents. Illustrations.
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Twenty top kids' authors and illustrators, including Jon Sciezka, Kate DiCamillo, Jack Gantos, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Dusen, collaborate on this zany, progressive story filled with werewolves, mad scientists, a talking pig, and 11-year-old twins on a quest to rescue their parents. Illustrations.
Description
Take twenty top kids’ authors and illustrators. Give them free rein to take turns creating a zany progressive story. What could possibly happen next?
It all starts with a train rushing through the night. . . . Well, actually, it starts when Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, writes a cliff-hanger episode and passes it on to the next member of a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who continues the story and passes it on. And what happens between episodes one and twenty-seven? Think werewolves and mad scientists, a talking pig, plenty of explosions, a blue Star Wars lunchbox, two meatballs, a whole army of villains and varmints, and one just plain bad egg. Not to mention our heroes, eleven-year-old twins Nancy and Joe, raised in a circus, who must find the pieces of a Top-Secret Robot in order to rescue their parents before . . . tick, tick, tick!
A collaboration between the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure originated as a national literacy project for young people and helped launch the Read.gov website.
Critic Reviews
“As gleefully entertaining as it is preposterously ludicrous...Go with the flow and enjoy the ride. -Publishers Weekly”
As gleefully entertaining as it is preposterously ludicrous...Go with the flow and enjoy the ride.
—Publishers Weekly
About the Author
M.T. Anderson is the author of a number of celebrated books including the Pals in Peril series, as well as The "Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1, The Pox Party", which won the National Book Award and a Printz Honor, "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves", which also won a Printz Honor, and "Feed", which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a "Boston Globe-Horn Book" Honor Book, and the winner of the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award for Young Adults.?Visit him at www.mt-anderson.com/delawar
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