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Rating: Summary: Three Cheers for ''Tourist Trap''!!! Review: ... I have a bit of a problem with the treatment of Pet. I can allow Ellen's lust for revenge against a prim and prissy Stephanie--after all, children are vicious, sometimes, to each other, and I felt it was clear that this ongoing battle between the two girls was clearly depicted as such; in fact, Edgar and Ellen are also well-explained as deviant mentalities. But to have the two of them mistreat an animal (of whatever sort it is) seems to promote such treatment of animals as fun, or cool, somehow. I found that disturbing. The characters are one-dimensional, but after all, this is what it is--a tale of two evil imps on yet another crusade to destroy something they feel is in their megalomaniacal way. I think a parent could do better in choosing summer reading for his/her child.
Rating: Summary: A romp all right, but... Review: ... I have a bit of a problem with the treatment of Pet. I can allow Ellen's lust for revenge against a prim and prissy Stephanie--after all, children are vicious, sometimes, to each other, and I felt it was clear that this ongoing battle between the two girls was clearly depicted as such; in fact, Edgar and Ellen are also well-explained as deviant mentalities. But to have the two of them mistreat an animal (of whatever sort it is) seems to promote such treatment of animals as fun, or cool, somehow. I found that disturbing. The characters are one-dimensional, but after all, this is what it is--a tale of two evil imps on yet another crusade to destroy something they feel is in their megalomaniacal way. I think a parent could do better in choosing summer reading for his/her child.
Rating: Summary: Another Delightful Romp Review: Even better than the first adventure, Tourist Trap proves another delightful romp for kids and kids-at-heart alike. Ogden gives us a refreshing duo who get to do all the naughty things we only dream about! Great fun with wonderful turns of phrase and vocabulary.
Rating: Summary: Three Cheers for ''Tourist Trap''!!! Review: In this second addition of the edgar & ellen series the book starts out with how the delightful little town of Nod's Limbs had been erected. Then it talks about edgar and ellen, two mischievious twelve-year-old twins, who live in a tall mansion next to the gadget graveyard, a graveyard and junkyard combined. But the pompous mayor has plans to change the twins' gadget graveyard into a hotel! He also arranged VIPs to visit and make Nod's Limbs a tourist atraction. So Edgar and Ellen act as tour guides but instead bring the VIPs on a tour of insanity that will make tourists stay away forever!I liked the story of this book better than the first. Also, in this book it gave me a very good discription of the picturesque town of Nod's Limbs and all of the goody-goody residents. Charles Ogden writes very interesting Lemony Snicket-oriented stories, except with the children being the predators. Rick Carton also makes great drawings that are dark and somwhat like the addams family. Another thing a liked better about this book aside from the first was that edgar and ellen succeeded in their evil plot.
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