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    Inspector Flytrap
    Inspector Flytrap
    Inspector Flytrap
    Audiobook51 minutes

    Inspector Flytrap

    Written by Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell

    Narrated by Mark Turetsky

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    About this audiobook

    From the New York Times bestselling power couple Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell comes this wacky new chapter-book series about a crime-solving Venus flytrap, launching with two books! From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving Venus flytrap. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, this early-chapter-book series is a must for beginning readers. Inspector Flytrap in the Da Vinci Cold introduces kids to the humorous and wacky world of Inspector Flytrap's Detective Agency, home to the world-renowned solver of BIG DEAL mysteries. The plant detective works tirelessly with his assistant Nina the Goat on his community's unsolved cases. There's no case too big, but there are definitely cases too small for this endearingly self-important plant detective. Celebrating the disabled yet enabled, the character of Inspector Flytrap is wheeled everywhere (on a skateboard, of course) by his goat sidekick as this mystery-solving duo works on cases such as "The Big Deal Mystery of the Stinky Cookies" and "The Big Deal Mystery of the Missing Rose." On his first caper, Inspector Flytrap heads to the Art Museum's Secret Lab to discover what important message lies in a mysterious glob on a recently discovered Da Vinci flower painting. The ingenious solution: Da Vinci was allergic to flowers, and the glob is, er, evidence of that ancient sneeze. Combining wacky humor and a silly cast of characters with adventure, friendship, and mystery, the powerhouse team of Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell have created a uniquely engaging series that is perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Ricky Ricotta, Captain Underpants, and the Galaxy Zack series. Also included in these books are some graphic novel-style pages that will attract reluctant readers. Author bio: Tom Angleberger is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Origami Yoda series, as well as Fake Mustache and Horton Halfpott, both Edgar Award nominees, and the Qwikpick Papers series. He is also the author of the transportation picture book McToad Mows Tiny Island. Tom lives with his wife, Cece Bell, in Christiansburg, Virginia. www.origamiyoda.com.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 23, 2017
    ISBN9781501960727
    Inspector Flytrap
    Author

    Tom Angleberger

    Tom Angleberger is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Origami Yoda series, as well as Fake Mustache and Horton Halfpott, both Edgar Award nominees, and the Qwikpick Papers series. He is also the author of the transportation picture book McToad Mows Tiny Island. Tom lives with his wife, Cece Bell, in Christiansburg, Virginia.

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    • 4/5
      Weirdly appealing adventures of a flytrap plant detective and his goat assistant. Silly kid humor throughout, and some valuable lessons about observation and not eating everything.
    • 4/5
      A Venus Flytrap and a goat--who could imagine them as a PI partnership but it works. Small vignettes of mysteries to be solved with the Venus Flytrap as the gumshoe and the goat as the sarcastic sidekick. This is different and unique. The short vignettes will keep the attention of the early chapter book readers. It's fun and unexpected in the duo. I look forward to more.
    • 4/5
      This is the first in a planned series of early chapter readers. A venus flytrap, Inspector Flytrap and his goat assistant, Nina, work together to solve mysterious happenings in their town, but he only solves big deal mysteries. Don't bother him with small deals like lost pickle paperweights, please (although he ends up solving it in the end). There are four stories in this book, with mysteries involving art, an awful smell, a missing shoe as well as a missing plant. The stories are filled crazy humour and illustrations that kids will love. Lots of silliness with a little rudeness that will tickle the funnybone of the young readers. A cute addition to class and school libraries for those early readers who want to read chapter books.

      I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
    • 5/5
      A Venus flytrap (yes, a plant) that solves mysteries with the help of his assistant, a goat.Inspector Flytrap overcomes the obstacles of being a plant by riding from place to place on a skateboard pushed by his goat assistant detective.And, to clarify, he only solves big deal mysteries. Don't bother him with small deals like lost pickle paperweights, please.Flytrap earned my respect. Awesome detective. Probably the best plant detective I've ever read about.