Carnival in a Fix

by Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre (Illustrator)

Overview

Journey to an amusement park on a moon!
 
Funfair Moon, the outer space amusement park where Emily lives, has the highest roller coasters, the most dizzying Tilt-A-Whirls, and the scariest ghost train in the galaxy. Normally, Emily’s heroes Jinks and O’Hare keep it in tip-top shape. But the day the funfair inspector comes, everything goes wrong. Peeploid’s Merry-Go-Round and Fudge Shoppe is spinning out of control, gravity has reversed on the biggest slide, and there are strange little spiny black balls all over the place! Can Emily help fix the carnival before the inspector closes it for good?
 
For early chapter book readers who are ready for something longer, the Not-So-Impossible Tales are packed with humor, action, and illustrations on almost every page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385388023
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	02/14/2017
Series:	A Not-So-Impossible Tale
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)
File size:	151 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

PHILIP REEVE is the acclaimed author of the Not-So-Impossible Tales, along with the Mortal Engines/Predator Cities series, the Fever Crumb series, and the Carnegie Medal–winning Here Lies Arthur. He was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton and has been writing down adventures since he was five years old. You can learn more about Philip Reeve at philip-reeve.com and follow him on Twitter at @philipreeve1.
 
SARAH McINTYRE has written and illustrated several picture books and comics for children. Sarah’s delightfully over-the-top drawings and mischievous monkey illustrations brought her and Philip together for the Not-So-Impossible Tales. You can learn more about Sarah McIntyre at jabberworks.co.uk and follow her at @jabberworks.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Not-So-Impossible Tales
“A madcap, magical blend of fluff and other good stuff.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Pugs of the Frozen North
 
“Wacky and fast moving.” —School Library Journal on Cakes in Space
 
“[A] sly and dashing tale.” —Kirkus Reviews on Oliver and the Seawigs

From the Publisher

2016-12-06
An extraterrestrial girl wants to become a repairwoman at a moon-based amusement park. Emily, depicted as a light-skinned humanoid with a reptilian tail and pointy ears, has lived at Funfair Moon ever since she hatched. She loves everything about her home and idolizes the maintenance staff who keep things running. But when an inspector makes a surprise visit just as everything seems to be malfunctioning all at once, the future of the park is thrown into jeopardy. The root of the problem is recurring and obvious—few readers will be distracted from it by the endless parade of disasters. While the plot is simplistic, the world it takes place in is good fun; there are charming ghosts in a haunted-house attraction, rides built for giant-sized creatures, villainous space overlords, and all sorts of playful oddities. The artwork does a good job of showing how strange the space creatures are, and it captures the sense of movement as Emily and the repairmen (and they are both male) set off on a whirlwind chase through the park, trying to keep it running. The ending of Emily's story is as predictable as the culprit, but the latter's motivation is amusing. More cotton candy than substance, this book trades plot and character for a tour of an amusing setting and a series of mishaps. (Science fiction. 7-11)

Kirkus Reviews