LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Inventor Will Jakeman may be getting on – he’s 99 ¾ in fact – but he’s still having the most incredible adventures. Scary, swashbuckling, flabbergasting adventures to be precise, and they get even more mind-boggling with the arrival of young Charlie Small, accidentally catapulted from his universe onto Jakeman’s plant. Charlie persuades the inventor to take him on a space trip and, unfortunately, they soon run into a band of Reptoid pirates who like nothing more than terrorising anyone who crosses their path. Our two heroes have Jakeman’s marvellous Mechanicals to help them, including of course the giant gorilla Steel-skull, plus Chuckles, the nuclear-fusion Hysterical Hyena, the Warrior Walrus, Battering Billy Goat and Gas-driven Hovering Hippo, but will even that be enough?
As with the earlier book in this series (and Charlie Small adventures, soon to be reissued), this is imagination-stretching stuff, the pages filled with Nick Ward’s brilliant drawings and diagrams and sure to be devoured by gadget-loving thrill seekers of all ages.
Andrea Reece
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Jakeman's Marvellous Mechanimals and the Space Pirates Synopsis
Will Jakeman is the inventor of the world-famous Marvellous Mechanimals - brilliant mechanical animals that defend people from all the dangerous creatures that inhabited their home.
At the ripe old age of 99 and three quarters, Will decides he must try to discover the whereabouts of Ureker, the lost planet of his birth invaded by Reptoids, a gang of merciless Space Pirates, when he was still a little baby. Will builds a giant telescope that can see far out into the cosmos - but what he doesn't realise is that his fiddling with the fabric of the cosmos causes a massive space-quake, and a ten-year-old boy called Charlie Small is catapulted through the hole and lands near Will's factory of inventions.
The two embark on a series of adventures trying to get Charlie home - will they succeed or will they be left dangling in space forever?
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Press Reviews
Nick Ward Press Reviews
'Nick Ward's utterly brilliant... story about a boy inventor is in an absolute class of its own. Full of amazing diagrams of Will's mechanimal inventions as well as newspaper excerpts, cartoons and illustrated text, it's a complete inspiration and a great story with plenty of action...Highly recommended.' - Book Trust
'With stunning two-colour, elaborately detailed illustrations, and the chance to invent your very own Marvellous Mechanimal, this marvellously original and ingenious book is packed full of knockabout fun, amazing illustrations... and the strangest menagerie you will see this year!' - Lancashire Post
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About Nick Ward
Nick Ward was born in the late Jurassic period, and since then has written over sixty books for children, from picture books to young fiction. His book Don't Eat The Teacher has sold over a million copies and his alter-ego Charlie Small has written twelve volumes of unbelievable but completely true adventurous memoirs.
Brought up living above the family shop in a quiet market town, all Nick Ward ever wanted to do was write and illustrate books, and by hook and by crook, that's exactly what he has ended up doing. He has worked in design studios and converted school buildings, but now works from a little wooden studio (shed) at the bottom of his leafy garden. It's all rather lovely.
Find him on Instagram @nickwardillustration
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