Double Trouble at the Museum

by Stew Knight

Overview

Finn and his friends attend a school sleepover at the museum. After the local news reports that some of the dinosaur bones are missing from the new exhibit, other strange things begin to happen.

Can Finn, Botts, and Tess uncover the trouble at the museum before it’s too late?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733609210
Publisher:	Dreamwell Press
Publication date:	07/30/2019
Series:	Finn & Botts
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.29(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Stew Knight is the author of the Finn & Botts chapter book series. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and very anxious poodle. Stew loves the outdoors and can be found on the ski slopes in the winter, hiking the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in the spring and summer, and hanging out with the pigs at the annual state fair in the fall.

Editorial Reviews

Knight's story features a cast of well-honed, original characters so skillfully crafted and such fun that readers won't even realize they're turning pages…The illustrations are amusing and well rendered, and fun dinosaur facts are sprinkled throughout the narrative…With its sweet, silly kid-humor, appealing characters, and scary-cool facts, readers will devour this whole.—BlueInk Review - Starred Review

From the Publisher

2019-09-21
An overnight elementary school field trip to the local museum turns into a mystery-solving adventure in Knight's (Finn & Botts: Curse of the Cornfield Ghost, 2019, etc.) second chapter book in a series.Best friends Finn and Botts are caught up in another spooky mystery—this time, during a sleepover with their classmates in the Dinosaur Gallery at the Kealstal City Museum. Why are bones missing from the new dinosaur exhibit? Where does the trail of grayish, oddly sparkly dust lead? Who's responsible for the secret tunnel in the museum that Finn and Botts discover, and who's sneaking around in raptor costumes? Knight weaves a smattering of information about minerals and gems into this lively adventure as well as numerous dinosaur facts. Along the way, his colorful main characters and their supportive friend Tess tour the exhibits, eat pizza, and identify the dinosaurs on the museum director's scavenger hunt list. Knight's atmospheric descriptions of the exhibits at night and of behind-the-scenes locations (including a security office with a bank of video screens) will give readers an enjoyable sense of what it's like to be in a museum after dark. In the humorous, full-page, grayscale illustrations that complement each chapter, artist Meyers (The Baltimore Bandit, 2019, etc.) again depicts the characters as pigs, albeit ones that are completely human in appearance and behavior. (There's one visual head-scratcher, however: The caveman masks that Finn and Botts wear at one point have human, not porcine, features.) The mystery that the main characters stumble upon and solve comes to an eventful conclusion, and the book ends with a word puzzle for readers to complete themselves, with answers that they can find throughout the story.

A promising series continues with a deft mix of suspense, relatable characters, and well-integrated educational entertainment.

Kirkus Reviews