Review: A Whole Nother Story

This week I really wanted to review the book, A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup.  Unfortunately, I sort of haven’t read it.

Well, that’s not entirely true.  During the Magic Tree House event last week, I did an impromptu story time.  After 11 picture books, the older kids wanted me to read something a tad bit longer.  So, having heard that this book was screamingly funny, I read the first 2 chapters of it.

And it was screamingly funny.  But two chapters doth not a whole book make.  So, I have been forced this week to seek outside help.

I present our senior BookKids staffer (and longest working BookPeople employee) Merrilee’s review:

A Whole Nother Story
By Dr. Cuthbert Soup

It took a combination of Meghan’s badgering and my own resolution to read more mid-grade fiction to get me to read A Whole Nother Story.

All it took to get me completely hooked was reading the first three chapters.  It’s the story of Ethan Cheeseman and his 3 attractive, polite, and relatively odor free children.

Ethan is an inventor who has invented a machine that can be used for great good or unspeakable evil.  As a result, he and his family are frequently on the run, hiding from a motley assortment of corporate spies, secret agents, and a fishbowl-toting chimpanzee.  It also has a mildly snarky sense of humor and a Lemony Snicket-esque narrator who give s unsolicited advice on such things as how to choose a dog, Christmas gift giving, and weight lifting.

Oh, and as for what the invention might be, that’s a whole nother story.