The Creature Department
$24.23
- Paperback
346 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2014
Summary
“Stunning… . a bit like if you took Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Monsters Inc. and shoved them in a TARDIS.”-BuzzfeedIt’s a tentacled, inventive, gooey, world in there… .Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh, except inside the gleaming headquarters of DENKi-3000-the world’s eighth-largest electronics factory.Beneath the glass towers and glittering skywalks, there’s a rambling old mansion from which all the company’s amazing inventions spri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781595146847 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1595146849 |
| Author: | Robert Paul Weston |
| Publisher: | Razorbill |
| Imprint: | Razorbill |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 346 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | The Creature Department |
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Critics Review
“A literal Creature feature, with plenty of cinematic and digital spinoff potential.” –Kirkus
“The Creature Department is sure to appeal to those middle graders who like a lot of silliness, a bit of rickum rockery, and a giggle of grossness…” – NY Journal of Books
“The language is fun, the mood slightly macabre, and the imagination explosive.” –This is Infamous
“Filled with wonder and populated by strange beings. In other words, it’s pretty frickin’ great.” —Geeksmash
Underneath the eccentric creatures… eerie-yet-fun hidden laboratories, and whirring gizmos and gadgets, the appeal of The Creature Department lies within its more human values: friendship, being true to one’s dreams, standing up for what you think is right, and never giving up. –GeekMom
“The creatures are a giggle-inducing example of an imagination run wild…” –Associated Press
About The Author
Robert Paul Weston
Robert Paul Westonlives inLondon,England, in a crumbling old building, hidden behind shiny glass towers. His first novel-in-verse,Zorgamazoo, recieved the California Young Reader’s Medal, the Silver Birch Award, the Children’s Choice Award, and an E.B. White Read Aloud Honor. The hardboiled fairy taleDustCity was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. In February 2013, he publishedPrince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff. Although he writes all his books with a mechanical pencil, it’s not electric and doesn’t come with a telescopic lens.Framestore is a visual effects studio based in London, New York, Los Angeles, and most recently Montreal. Their work can be seen in all eight of the Harry Potter films, Where the Wild Things Are, War Horse, and The Golden Compass, for which they won the Oscar for best visual effects. Framestore is also responsible for the creatures and astonishing effects in movies like Ben Stiller’s Walter Mitty; Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock; the samurai epic 47 Ronin, starring Keanu Reeves; Jupiter Ascending by the Wachowskis; Iron Man 3; and Robocop.
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