Nick Ward’s utterly brilliant... story about a boy inventor is in an absolute class of its own. Full of amazing diagrams of Will’s mechanimal inventions as well as newspaper excerpts, cartoons and illustrated text, it’s a complete inspiration and a great story with plenty of action...Highly recommended.

Book Trust

With stunning two-colour, elaborately detailed illustrations, and the chance to invent your very own Marvellous Mechanimal, this marvellously original and ingenious book is packed full of knockabout fun, amazing illustrations… and the strangest menagerie you will see this year!

Lancashire Post

Will Jakeman is the inventor of the world-famous Marvellous Mechanimals – brilliant mechanical animals that defend people from all the dangerous creatures that inhabited their home. At the ripe old age of 99 and three quarters, Will decides he must try to discover the whereabouts of Ureker, the lost planet of his birth invaded by Reptoids, a gang of merciless Space Pirates, when he was still a little baby. Will builds a giant telescope that can see far out into the cosmos - but what he doesn't realise is that his fiddling with the fabric of the cosmos causes a massive space-quake, and a ten-year-old boy called Charlie Small is catapulted through the hole and lands near Will’s factory of inventions. The two embark on a series of adventures trying to get Charlie home - will they succeed or will they be left dangling in space forever?
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When searching for his lost home planet, Will Jakeman manages to catapult himself and ten-year-old adventurer Charlie Small into deep dark space – will they ever get home away from the terrifying Space Pirate Reptoids?
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Nick Ward’s utterly brilliant... story about a boy inventor is in an absolute class of its own. Full of amazing diagrams of Will’s mechanimal inventions as well as newspaper excerpts, cartoons and illustrated text, it’s a complete inspiration and a great story with plenty of action...Highly recommended.
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Will Jakeman is the ninety-nine year old inventor of the world-famous Marvellous Mechanimals. One day, when searching for his lost home planet, he manages to catapult himself and ten-year-old adventurer Charlie Small into deep dark space- will they ever get home away from the terrifying Space Pirate Reptoids? Let's hope the miraculous mechanimals can save the day...
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781913101718
Publisert
2022-08-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Guppy Publishing Ltd
Vekt
300 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
120 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
J, 02
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Forfatter

Biographical note

Nick Ward was born in the late Jurassic period, and since then has written over sixty books for children, from picture books to young fiction. His book "Don't Eat The Teacher" has sold over a million copies and his alter-ego Charlie Small has written twelve volumes of unbelievable but completely true adventurous memoirs.

Brought up living above the family shop in a quiet market town, all Nick Ward ever wanted to do was write and illustrate books, and by hook and by crook, that's exactly what he has ended up doing. He has worked in design studios and converted school buildings, but now works from a little wooden studio (shed) at the bottom of his leafy garden. It's all rather lovely.