Troubling Tonsils! - Couverture rigide

Reynolds, Aaron

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1665961082 ISBN 13 : 9781665961080

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2025

Synopsis

Three starred reviews!
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!

“Beautiful to the eye and sure to delight younger horror enthusiasts” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the team behind the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal–winning Creepy Carrots! and its sequels comes the first entry in a spin-off chapter book series in which Jasper Rabbit tells the story of a young marmot whose tonsils get the better of him.

Jasper the Rabbit is back! A little older and wiser, he collects creepy stories to share as cautionary tales. If you’re ready for some chills and chuckles alike, tune in as Jasper weaves the yarn of Charlie Marmot and the particular pickle he found himself in.

See, Charlie here has a problem: his tonsils have become infected and have to come out. No biggie, right? But when he decides he wants to keep them in a jar for show and tell, things get creepy… First, strange slurping sounds in his room keep Charlie awake the night before his surgery. Then, he goes to the doctor only to be told his tonsils are already gone! Could it be they’re out for revenge?

Join Jasper and Charlie in this first Creepy Tale chapter book and learn from Charlie’s mistakes before it’s too late!

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Aaron Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many highly acclaimed books for kids including Creepy Carrots!, Creepy Pair of Underwear!, Creepy Crayon!, The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, and the epic fantasy series Fart Quest. He has a passion for kids’ books and seeing kids reading them. He regularly makes time to visit elementary schools, where his hilarious and heartfelt presentations keep kids spellbound. He lives in Chicago with his wife, two kids, three cats, and anywhere between zero and ten goldfish, depending on the day. Visit Aaron at Aaron-Reynolds.com. 

Peter Brown is the author and illustrator of many bestselling children’s books, including Children Make Terrible Pets, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and The Curious Garden. He is also the author of the bestselling middle grade Wild Robot series. He is the recipient of a Caldecott Honor for Creepy Carrots!, two E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award, and a Children’s Choice Book Award for Illustrator of the Year. Peter’s website is PeterBrownStudio.com.

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YOU HAVE STUMBLED your way into the unknown. The unexpected. You have arrived without a road map at the crossroads where strange and silly meet. And there’s no turning back.

  Be warned. Creepy things lie on the following pages. And creepiness has a habit of doing strange things to readers. For example, you may possibly find yourself peeing your pants without knowing whether it’s from fright or hilarity or maybe just confusion.

  If that’s the kind of story you seek, the kind that makes you pee your pants for a variety of reasons, then you are in the right place. Feel free to turn the page. But proceed with caution.

    TONSILS.

  Yes, indeed. It is a strange word. And an even stranger thing. Or things, if we’re going to be precise. For that is what they are. A pair of… things.

  Two small, pink, pulpy things. Wads. Lumps. Glands, technically speaking. Two little, pink, fleshy glands that reside snugly in the back of your throat. They are likely there right now.

  Watching. Waiting.

  They’ve always seemed suspicious to me, these tonsils. After all, what are they up to, lurking back there in the dark? Why do they linger in the shadows?

  It would seem they have a job to do. Their job? To battle germs and infections that decide to seek entry to your body through the throat.

  They are warriors, these tonsils. Fighters. Survivors.

  But even warriors are not without weakness.

  For sometimes they, these strange tonsils of ours, turn red.

  Sometimes they stop doing their job.

  And sometimes, it would seem, these little lumps, these tiny, fleshy wads, these ever-present glands…

  Sometimes they simply have a mind of their own.

    MEET CHARLIE MARMOT. Just your average, run-of-the-mill, large, furry rodent. Who wears clothes. And lives in a house. And goes to school. Normal, everyday animal stuff.

  Autumn is in the air and brings with it many joys to young marmots like Charlie. Leaves crunching underfoot. Puddles to splash in. Crisp, windy days. The inevitable trick-or-treating that lurks just over the horizon.

  This autumn is no exception. Except that it holds in its clutches something extra for Charlie Marmot. Charlie doesn’t know it yet, but his tonsils… have an infection. An infection that, medically speaking, is quite easy to resolve. But on this brisk week in October, Charlie’s tonsils are going to do more than infect his throat.

  They are going to infect his life.

  And swallow him down into the deep, dark tunnel of his very own…

  CREEPY TALE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1665961082
• ISBN 13: 9781665961080
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Brown Peter
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas