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Viminy Crowe's comic book

Jocelyn, Marthe. (Author). Scrimger, Richard, 1957- (Added Author). Dávila, Claudia. (Added Author).

A chance encounter between geeky Wylder Wallace and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon results in the pair winding up inside a steampunk comic book. As they search for a portal back to the real world, the comic book story goes on around them, with every page turn sending them to a thrilling and often dangerous new setting.

Book  - 2014
J FIC Jocel
1 copy / 0 on hold

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  • ISBN: 1770494790
  • ISBN: 9781770494794
  • Physical Description 317 pages : illustrations
  • Publisher Toronto : Tundra Books, [2014]

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Viminy Crowe's Comic Book
Viminy Crowe's Comic Book
by Jocelyn, Marthe; Scrimger, Richard; Dávila, Claudia (Illustrator)
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Viminy Crowe's Comic Book


From two of Canada's most renowned children's authors comes a hilarious, action-packed comic adventure novel! When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle's steampunk comic hit- FLYNN GOSTER in GOLD RUSH TRAIN . Wylder, a fan of the Flynn comics, opens this new one eagerly, astounded to see the girl who was just yelling at him inside the comic. Fascinated, he follows Addy into the bathroom, and the adventure begins... Is there a personality conflict? Oh, yes. Addy wants to go home; Wylder wants to stay and explore the world of Viminy Crowe's comic book. Do things go wrong? You bet they do, from the very start, when Addy loses her pet rat, Catnip, and almost gets shot by a Red Rider. All the while the actual comic book story is going on around them. The train carries a fortune from the Yukon goldfields, and both dashing Flynn Goster (hero of a thousand disguises and thief extraordinaire) and villainous Professor Aldous Lickpenny (criminal genius, aided by malevolent robots but somewhat hampered by doltish nephew Nevins) have plans to steal the gold. There's romance too -- Flynn's old flame, the brilliant aviatrix, Isadora Fortuna, is traveling across Canada with her balloon, and her strangely familiar protegee Nelly Day. Addy and Wylder navigate the story with the aid of the comic book itself. Every page turn sends them to a different setting, from the Banff Springs Hotel to an alligator-wrestling arena in Florida. But when they finally find a portal back to the real world, catastrophe follows ... A hilarious thrill-ride of a story that will have kids laughing and on the edge of their seats with every turn of the page.