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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780060843199
ISBN: 0060843195
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: August 01, 2007
Publisher: Eos
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Sales Rank: 549015
Studio: Eos
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Product Description:
One beastly beast that's more than meets the eye.
Two aliens with slimy tentacles and too many eyes fixed on adopting a human son.
Three inventors and a sea serpent, a princess, an orphanage, and two ships full of pirates.
Four fantastic tales by renowned fantasy author Garth Nix.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
158 pages of aliens, kid inventors, talking pirate rats, faraway castles, and one beastly beast are broken up into four easily palatable short length stories. Garth Nix has a lot of fun inviting his readers to do the same. Brian Biggs' thick-lined, simple, entertaining illustrations intermittently fill the pages just enough but never overwhelm, leaving the bulk of the visuals to develop in the womb of the imagination.
Rating:  -
Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
on 09/20/2007
ONE BEASTLY BEAST: TWO ALIENS, THREE INVENTORS, FOUR FANTASTIC TALES is a collection of four short stories by fantasy author Garth Nix.
In "Blackbread the Pirate," DVDs are stolen from Peter by a gang of pirate rats. Yes, pirate rats! One Captain Erasmus Rattus arrives to take Peter to a magical land in hopes of retrieving the DVDs--they are rentals.
In "The Princess and the Beastly Beast," Princess ... Read More
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Fantasy writer Garth Nix has created a short story collection for the younger set. Exploring the underworld of rat pirates; adoptions of Earthlings by odd, tentacled aliens; a princess literally searching the belly of the beast; and a brainiac solving the dilemmas of a kindhearted sea serpent, Nix introduces young readers to the possibilities of the imagination between the covers of a book.
ONE BEASTLY BEAST is an excellent choice for the reluctant reader. The full manuscript is around 120 ... Read More
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