LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 | Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 | Shortlisted for the 2018 Blue Peter Awards - Best Story
Wed Wabbit is a tour de force! Lissa Evans’s hilarious, madcap adventure is both effervescent and tautly plotted making it impossible to put down. When Fidge furiously kicks her little sister’s beloved soft toy, the Wed Wabbit, into the road she unleashes an imaginary caper that sends her and her spoilt cousin Graham into the world of the ridiculous Wimbley Woos, blobby characters of different colours who only speak in rhyming couplets. But are they so ridiculous? By the end of their adventure, and with the help of the wonderful cast of ludicrous characters including a plastic carrot, both Fidge and Graham have been changed. Lissa Evans’s comic timing and her control of her richly imagined world is perfect.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Wed Wabbit Synopsis
You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation - the whole, entire thing - is your fault. Wed Wabbit is an adventure story about friendship, danger and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it's funny. It's seriously funny.
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9781910989449 |
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4th January 2018 |
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Lissa Evans |
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David Fickling Books |
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Paperback |
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250 pages |
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Press Reviews
Lissa Evans Press Reviews
'A classic in the making' - The Times; 'gloriously satirical and spritely' - The Sunday Times
'A future classic - really, really funny' - Nina Stibb
'Inventive, funny and not a word out of place.' Charlotte Eyre, The Bookseller
`So funny, and so sharp and dark and beautiful and un-guessable. What a book.' - Katherine Rundell
`Evans is the real deal; a hilariously funny writer whose effortless storytelling will capture the imagination of any child. Wed Wabbit deserves a place on every bookshelf.' - Guardian
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About Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans still remembers cracking her first joke, age 7. It involved a hippo. (We’ll say no more.) But the comedy bug was born and, following a medicine degree, Lissa changed careers to become a comedy producer for radio and TV. Eventually, after a decade of running a red pencil through other people’s work, Lissa began to write something of her own. This is Lissa Evans' third book for children. Her first, Small Change for Stuart (published in the USA as Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms), was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Children’s Book Award. She has also written books for adults. She has two teenage daughters, and lives in London.
Author photo © Alys Tomlinson
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April 2021, chosen as a recommended read by our Guest Editor, Geraldine McCaughrean: When the tedious bedtime story, The Land of the Wimbley Woos, turns horrible real, Fidge finds herself trying to prevent a really unhappy ending. It’s funny and clever, dark ...and awfully important that Wed Wabbit shouldn’t win! I’ve seen it enjoyed by 6 year olds, but its clever allusions to other books would be appreciated by adults, so... a book for anyone, really.
The Costa Judges say: ‘A deeply original riot of a novel that will delight children and adults alike, and keep you laughing all the way through.’
David Fickling says “Wed Wabbit is wildly inventive, dazzlingly funny and sometimes scary; it's a tautly plotted adventure that packs a surprising emotional punch. It has the makings of a classic and will be loved by readers of all ages for many years to come".
