Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! - by Mike Lowery (Hardcover)

Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Number of Pages: 105
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Art + Architecture, Action + Adventure / General
Series Title: Doodle Adventures
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Author: Mike Lowery
Age Range: 4-8 Years
Language: English

About the Book

Pick up a pencil or pen. Sharpen your imagination! Here's an adventure story where you, the reader, directly participate. DOODLE ADVENTURES: THE SEARCH FOR SLIMY SPACE SLUGS! marries the pleasures of doodling and drawing with the fun of a ripping good story. Like a visual Mad Libs chapter book, or a graphic novel where the reader gets to help with the graphics, it celebrates engaging, gamelike, fill-in fun for middle-grade readers. Set in space, the book invites the reader to join Carl, a duck and member of a super-secret international group of explorers, on a journey in search of a very important grail-like object--a jar with an artifact that's gone missing. By the end of the adventure, you'll have cowritten a tale you can read again and again and show off to family and friends.

Book Synopsis

Draw your way through the story!

Doodle Adventures: The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! is a lighthearted fantasy where the reader first draws him- or herself into the story, and then continues by following prompts and adding more illustrations and doodles. Set in space, the book invites the reader to join Carl, a duck and member of a super-secret international group of explorers, on a journey in search of a very important grail-like object. The book is sturdy paper over board with beautiful cream paper--perfect for defacing! And by the end, the reader will have co-written a tale to return to again and again, and show off to family and friends.

Review Quotes

"The clever idea is... an engaging concept executed with a fast-paced story and a loose, doodle-like art style that won't intimidate burgeoning amateur artists." --Booklist

"Kids will love making this story their own, and it may well hook a new crop of readers who haven't yet experienced the joy of fully engaging with a book." --Shelf Awareness

"It's right in my boy's (and, I suspect, lots of other kid artists') wheelhouse -- the combo of a graphic novel with the ability to draw yourself into the story." --Brightly

"It is engaging, fun, hilarious, and completely perfect in so many ways. We need a lot more books like this. It's like it is sprayed with Reluctant-Reader-and-Writer-Be-Gone." --The Picture Book Review

"...it was a blast.This is something kids will be proud to share with family and friends." --iddle Grade Mafia