And along the way, their exploits provide plenty of giggles and grins. The trio gets in all kinds of jams and fixes, but their pluck and smarts help them to save the world, naturally (hey, this isn’t a spoiler, because in these types of books, the world always gets saved, see?). One summer day, an editor and I were sitting on the lawn at Vermont College, talking about those books we’d on vacation when we were boys books with cracking good plots, simple, vivid characters, no real narrative logic, and, most important, a tremendous expression of freedom and joy. Anderson 5. Readers will immediately be reminded of ’50s-style Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew books, complete with clichés and all kinds of silliness and antiquated exclamations. Whales on Stilts I loved writing this book. Sponsored 4.22 Free shipping Whales on Stilts (A Pals in Peril Tale) - Hardcover - VERY GOOD 4.08 Free shipping Whales on Stilts Hardcover M. So Lily enlists the help of her two friends, Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, who is the hero of a series of books, and Katie Mulligan, the heroine of a set of books. 2,038 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 0152053409 / ISBN 13: 9780152053406 Published by Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, Florida, 2005 Used Condition: Very Good Hardcover Save for Later From Bookmarcs (Houston, TX, U.S.A.

We’re a midsize company devoted to expanding cetacean pedestrian opportunities.’” It’s not really as suspicious as it seems. Her dad’s response? “‘Oh, come on, honey. Anderson, Award-Winning Author and Storyteller Whales on Stilts Pals in Peril 1 Anderson sends up decades of children’s book series, and creates a hysterical tale of his own. Lily, the smart girl that she is, immediately gets concerned that her dad’s boss is going to take over the world with whales on stilts. But her father is unfazed by those odd facts and by all the other suspicious clues that surround him at his workaday job. Heroine Lily is an average girl whose father works at an Abandoned Warehouse for a boss who has blue hands and always wears a sack over his head (who clearly is some kind of whale himself).

Readers of any age who are at all familiar with comic books, superhero stories in any form, or any old-style adventure tale will get a kick out of M.T.

Whales on Stilts by M.T. Anderson