![]() ![]() Greatly disturbed, Lily is sure her two best friends can help her. Although he is wearing a pinstriped suit when she meets him in the break room, Larry is also wearing a grain sack on his head, over which he pours a vat of green brine during the course of their conversation. Stay Out!!! There are probly scorpions!" She is even more concerned when she meets Larry, her father's boss. She is surprised to find that he works in an abandoned warehouse, which she knows is abandoned because a sign on it says, "Abandin Warehouse. Deciding she wants to know more about what her dad does for a living, she goes with him on Career Day. The main character of these Whales on Stilts and The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen is Lily Gefelty, a plain unassuming girl with overly long bangs who blows them out of her eyes when she wants to see something. And, while I cannot write this review without mentioning another great author of the absurd, Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, I have to say that where Snicket's books parody gothic dramas, among other things, Anderson's "Thrilling Tales Series" parodies the adventure and mystery genres that were popular in children's literature in the 1940s and 50s. ![]() ![]() Do you know how many laugh-out-loud on almost every page funny chapter books there are for children? Not enough! We owe MT Anderson our gratitude for bringing two more books to the shelves of the children's section that are masters of the ridiculous. ![]()
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