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About the Author
Sam Enthoven fulfilled his dream to become an internationally published author of fantastical action thrillers for young people with his rollicking 2006 debut The Black Tattoo. Tim, Defender of the Earth is his second book—or as he modestly puts it, ‘Phase Two of my sinister masterplan to conquer the universe!’.
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The author of The Black Tattoo (2006) lays waste to London in this similarly offbeat tale. This time, he offers a spin on classic low-budget monster flicks. Having at last perfected self-replicating, nearly invisible nanobots that can turn anything into anything else, Professor Mallahide feeds himself to his creations and sets out on a well-intentioned crusade to banish death and unhappiness from the world. With his new capabilities, nothing stands in his way—except his commonsensical daughter, Anna; her shallow but not completely useless classmate Chris; and Tim, a hundred-meter-tall, genetically “improved,” preadolescent tyrannosaur created in a subterranean British lab. Although Enthoven has the distracting habit of freezing the action to fret or explain, he pits Tim and his tiny human helpers against scads of thick-skulled politicians, sets up a series of rousingly destructive battles between the titanic dino and Mallahide (who turns himself into a mammoth half-human cockroach for the occasion), and closes with an ingenious twist. This is not quite up to M. T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts! (2006) for sheer zaniness, but it should draw and amuse the same audience. Grades 5-8. --John Peters
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- PublisherCorgi Childrens
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 055255359X
- ISBN 13 9780552553599
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Tim: Defender of the Earth. Sam Enthoven
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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-T-039-01577
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Penguin Random House Children's UK, United Kingdom, 2009
ISBN 10: 055255359X
ISBN 13: 9780552553599
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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. TIM is Tyrannosaurus Improved Model. He's a genetically modified dinosaur that the government have been growing in a secret bunker under Trafalgar Square. And he's on the loose, after the Prime Minister decides he's just too expensive to keep. He's huge and clumsy, and with just a few steps could crush much of central London. He tries to get away but something's calling him back.Professor Mallahide is very very clever. But also slightly crazy.He's developed an amazing new invention, where nanotechnology means that objects and even people can be taken apart, remodelled, changed and used for any purpose. It's an incredible tool - but also could be a very dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. Unfortunately it's in the hands of a mad scientist.Chris and Anna are caught up in something very big and scary. Can these two kids help at all as TIM and Professor Mallahide do battle? This is a spectacular novel of goodies and baddies fighting it out in London, using Big Ben as a spear and throwing themselves into Buckingham Palace. It is hilarious, wild and utterly original. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003300631
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