Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions - Softcover

TZANNES Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192727125 ISBN 13: 9780192727121

Publisher: OXFORD, 1992

Synopsis

When Professor Puffendorf, the world's greatest scientist, leaves her laboratory to the care of her assistant, Slag, she gives him the opportunity to steal her top-secret potion.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Tzannes, the author of Sanji and the Baker, lives in New York City. Korky Paul is the illustrator of the best-seller Winnie in Winter, as well as Monster Poems, Dragon Poems, Magic Poems, and Dinosaur Poems. He lives in England.

From Publishers Weekly:

This deliciously wacky book exhibits all the best qualities of British outrageousness just this side of Monty Python. In these collaborators' capable hands, in fact, it resembles a cross between the works of Babette Cole and Edward Gorey. When noted scientist Professor Puffendorf must leave for a conference, her assistant, Enzo--"a lazy, grumbling fellow"--is left to clean up. No longer dwarfed by his boss's prestige and knowledge, Enzo begins to fantasize about being in charge. Unlocking a secret cabinet "filled with mysterious potions," Enzo begins to play out his most ambitious fantasies. The conniving fellow tests one particular concoction on Chip, the professor's beloved guinea pig, and gets his just--and hilarious--deserts. These wild, unusually detailed illustrations boast broad caricatures worthy of Punch. Older children especially will relish the baroque humor as they pore over the pictures' myriad zany touches. One minor criticism: when the two-page spreads are split into two layers (top and bottom), it becomes difficult to know which block of text to read first. Ages 5-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: OXFORD
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0192727125
• ISBN 13: 9780192727121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40