Magic Pickle and the Garden of Evil

by Scott Morse

Overview

Something rotten has taken root!

But what they unearth is a pretty rotten bunch! That gnarly old lettuce head, The Romaine Gladiator, rises from the garden patch with dastardly plans to reunite the Brotherhood of Evil Produce! Can the Magic Pickle make a knuckle sandwich out of those notorious no-good veggies before their seeds of destruction destroy the world?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545300223
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/30/2013
Series:	Magic Pickle Series
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	309,877
File size:	17 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Scott Morse is the award-winning author of Dugout: The Zombie Steals Home as well as the creator of The Magic Pickle Graphic Novel and the Magic Pickle chapter book series with Graphix. He's currently a Story Supervisor at Pixar, where he has worked on Ratatouille, Wall*E, and the Cars franchise. He has also worked for Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nickelodeon. Scott lives with his loving family in Northern California.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 3–5—One of a series of illustrated chapter books coming on the heels of Morse's graphic novel (Scholastic, 2008), this title continues the adventures of Jo Jo Wigman and the superpowered pickle that lives in a secret government base underneath her bedroom. This particular adventure focuses on Jo Jo's agricultural class project and the plant growth serum she finds in the Magic Pickle's lab. The spot illustrations are lively, with crackling energy dots and a constant sense of action and movement. The prose is occasionally interrupted by short bursts of story told in a pure comic-book format before returning to text at the start of a new chapter. These segments don't seem to add anything that the illustrations don't already provide, but they do give the audience one more guided way to read and participate in the action. While the story contains a minor lesson about personal responsibility, the main focus seems to be the emphatic prose, which is littered with sound effects and visual punch to increase the action quotient and the ease of reading. The comic segments, typography sound effects, and the like are cues with which struggling readers can propel themselves along.—Benjamin Russell, Belmont High School, NH

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