The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan: (A Graphic Novel)

by Maxwell Eaton III

Overview

Meet Ace and Bub, the flying beaver brothers! Ace loves extreme sports and is always looking for a new adventure. Bub loves napping and, well, napping. But when penguins threaten to freeze Beaver Island for "resort and polar-style living," the brothers put their talents to work saving their tropical island paradise. Can they save Beaver Island from environmental destruction? And can they do it in time to still win the annual Beaver Island Surfing Competition?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375864476
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/10/2012
Series:	The Flying Beaver Brothers , #1
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	364,105
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

MAXWELL EATON III is a fine arts graduate of St. Lawrence University. He is the author/illustrator of Two Dumb Ducks and the Max and Pinky series. He enjoys drawing, hiking, skiing, reading, taking roadtrips, and not getting haircuts.

Editorial Reviews

Who says penguins are cute? The title tells readers everything they need to know. Or, as Ace puts it, "Hundreds of evil penguins!" Ace is a beaver who likes to surf. His brother Bub likes to nap. Together, they have the skills to save their island from a plan involving a gigantic refrigerator. (Eaton has clearly taken great delight in drawing a fridge the size of Graceland.) Children will know if this is their kind of humor when they hear that the story is about an evil refrigerator that threatens the planet. The pictures look, charmingly, like doodles readers might have sketched during a boring class. Some of the jokes are dumb. (BEAVER: "Something smells fishy…." SEABIRDS: "That's probably us.") Some are transcendentally dumb. A pun about blueprints is set up with the precision of a rocket launch or a Rube Goldberg device. Not every punch line works, but halfway through, everything clicks into place, and the plot achieves the sort of energy that would have made Goldberg proud. The second book in the series, The Fishy Business (releasing simultaneously), is funny from the first panel. The laws of probability suggest that volume three will be a real achievement. Some readers won't make it through the most painful jokes, but those who do will see something marvelous building itself in front of their eyes. (Graphic novel. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews