
Lizard Music
Daniel Pinkwater(Author)
NYRB Children's (Publisher)
Published on 15. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-68137-184-9 (ISBN)
Description
By the author of The Big Orange Splot, The Neddiad, and Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news.
And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat). The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own.
Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news.
And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat). The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Fourth Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-184-9 (9781681371849)
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Daniel Pinkwater
Lizard Music
E-Book
01/2011
1st Edition
NYR Children's Collection
€11.49
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Written and illustrated by Daniel Pinkwater