Hot Dog and Bob and the Particularly Pesky Attack of the Pencil People

by L. Bob Rovetch, Dave Whamond (Illustrator)

Overview

Beware the perilous pencils in the second novel of the wacky series starring a fifth-grade boy and “a superhero in the form of a hot dog” (School Library Journal).
 
Be afraid of your pencil. Be VERY afraid!
 
Just when Bob is getting over their last battle with the grossly evil pizza alien, he and Hot Dog have a new enemy to tackle: crafty little pencil snatchers from the planet Pencilvania. Beginning readers will be clamoring for Hot Dog and Bob’s second adventure!
 
Praise for the first Hot Dog and Bob adventure
 
“Those who relish the zaniest sort of slapstick will eat this up.” —Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452123578
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2023
Series:	Hot Dog and Bob , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 11 Years

About the Author

L. Bob Rovetch has written several books for children including Ook the Book, published by Chronicle Books, under the moniker Lissa Rovetch. L. Bob lives with her family in California.
Dave Whamond is a cartoonist whose syndicated comic Reality Check has been nominated as the best panel of the year by the National Cartoonists Society. He teaches illustration at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2-4-One day, a talking hot dog appears in Bob's lunch box. He has been sent from the planet Dogzalot to help ward off trouble-and trouble (or chaos) does arise in this off-the-wall, zany early chapter book. The fifth grader's usually sweet teacher, Miss Lamphead, gets tummy trouble, turns into a giant evil-alien pizza named "Cheese Face," and tries to take over the classroom by turning her students into pizza soldiers. Thanks to Hot Dog's array of condiment weapons: ketchup, mustard, relish, as well as a take-out meal from a Chinese restaurant, Miss Lamphead returns to her normal self and literally "hurls" (yes, vomits) out the students whom she has eaten. A superhero in the form of a hot dog, a teacher who transforms into a pizza, and bullies by the name of Barfalot, Slugburt, and Pigburt all make for an outlandish and ridiculous cast of characters and events. Wacky black-and-white cartoons appear on every page. Boys looking for something "gross" and fans of Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" books (Scholastic) are the most likely audience for this title, but it is a bit over-the-top even for them.-Jennifer Cogan, Bucks County Free Library, Doylestown, PA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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