Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost In The World (Johnny Boo Book 1)

by James Kochalka

Overview

Johnny Boo is the best little ghost in the whole world, because he's got Boo Power. This means that he can go "BOO" really loudly. His pet ghost, Squiggle, has Squiggle Power, which means that he can fly and do really fast loop-the-loops. Together they have the world's greatest ghost adventures! When the giant pink and yellow Ice Cream Monster bumbles into their lives, they go into a mad panic... until they discover that he's actually quite friendly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603090131
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Publication date:	06/23/2008
Series:	Johnny Boo Series , #1
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

JAMES KOCHALKA is, without question, one of the most unique and prolific alternative cartoonists working in America today. His comics have been published internationally by almost every alternative comics publisher; he's recorded several music albums under the name James Kochalka Superstar (making him a favorite at college radio stations across the country); and he's developed animated cartoons for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Hangover.

He is the first official Cartoonist Laureate of the state of Vermont, appointed in 2011.

Among his best known works are the Monkey vs Robot series, the beloved children's series Johnny Boo, Dragon Puncher, and Glorkian Warrior, and his magnum opus, the 14-year span of daily diary comics known as American Elf.

Editorial Reviews

Fun for kids of all ages. It's AWESOME!" —DJ Lance Rock, host of Nick Jr's Yo Gabba Gabba!

"A playfully wacky, colorful graphic novel... Highly recommended." —Children's Bookwatch        
 
“Quirky, cute, imaginative, and endlessly re-readable.” —GeekDad

"A great series for young readers with its easy-to-follow panels and big word balloons." —Good Comics for Kids, School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Kochalka dishes up a brief episode in comics-style panels, featuring two ghosts, a monster, melted ice cream and burping. If that's not a foolproof formula for pleasing the Oshkosh set, nothing is. Looking something like a one-eyed pink-and-yellow sock monkey in the bright, very simply drawn panels, the monster insists to Johnny Boo and his ghostlet companion Squiggle that "I'm not BAD, I'm nice"-but so greedily does it gulp an offered carton of ice cream that little Squiggle goes down too. Nor does the monster show much remorse . . . until Squiggle uses his special "squiggle power" to do loop-de-loops that force the monster to belch him out. Even then the burps don't stop until Johnny uses his special "BOO power" to scare them away. Johnny's debut is slender, even for the price, but he's a true crowd-pleaser: playful, clever and ever ready to forgive, forget or bellow out a BOO. (Graphic novel. 5-7)

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