New Releases by Adam Rex

Un encantador libro que recrea una experiencia universal: el temor de los niños que van a la escuela por primera vez. Un autor excepcional y un ilustrador de primera línea unen su talento para producir un libro fuera de serie. Tras el éxito alcanzado por Neil Gaiman y Adam Rex con El día de Chu (publicado en español por Océano Travesía), estos talentosos autores nos presentan ahora El primer día de escuela de Chu. Aquí volvemos a encontrarnos con el mismo personaje: el simpático y tierno oso panda cuyos estornudos son capaces de producir las más inesperadas y catastróficas consecuencias. En este caso, Chu experimenta los temores, dudas e incertidumbres que siente cualquier niño ante la perspectiva de asistir por primera vez al colegio. ¿Cómo será la escuela? ¿Qué tipo de compañeros encontrará allí? ¿Será su maestra una persona comprensiva y amigable o, por el contrario, se encontrará con una profesora regañona? Todas estas dudas asaltan al pequeño panda, quien se siente muy nervioso.

Homenaje y recreación paródica de las mejores narraciones clásicas de la literatura de terror, suculentamente ilustradas. Frankenstein tiene mucha hambre, pero ninguno de sus vecinos quiere compartir con él la comida y sólo le arrojan comestibles podridos para ahuyentarlo. Lo que ellos ignoran es que lo que para unos es fétida basura, para otros es una delicia.

"An essential purchase that is simultaneously funny, frank, and soothing. A perfect first day read-aloud."― School Library Journal, starred review A heartwarming and clever first day of school tale, from New York Times bestsellers Adam Rex (The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors) and Christian Robinson (Last Stop on Market Street). It''s the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone''s just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he''s not the only one going through first-day jitters. This delightful back-to-school picture book told from the POV of the school is a great read-aloud, and perfect for readers of all ages.

"Gratuity Tucci and her alien friend, J. Lo, journey to New Boovworld, one of Saturn''s moons, to clear J. Lo''s name after a string of misunderstandings"--

Un encantador libro que recrea una experiencia universal: el temor de los ni?os que van a la escuela por primera vez.Un autor excepcional y un ilustrador de primera l?nea unen su talento para producir un libro fuera de serie.Tras el ?xito alcanzado por Neil Gaiman y Adam Rex con El d?a de Chu (publicado en espa?ol por Oc?ano Traves?a), estos talentosos autores nos presentan ahora El primer d?a de escuela de Chu. Aqu? volvemos a encontrarnos con el mismo personaje: el simp?tico y tierno oso panda cuyos estornudos son capaces de producir las m?s inesperadas y catastr?ficas consecuencias. En este caso, Chu experimenta los temores, dudas e incertidumbres que siente cualquier ni?o ante la perspectiva de asistir por primera vez al colegio. ¿C?mo ser? la escuela? ¿Qu? tipo de compa?eros encontrar? all?? ¿Ser? su maestra una persona comprensiva y amigable o, por el contrario, se encontrar? con una profesora rega?ona? Todas estas dudas asaltan al peque?o panda, quien se siente muy nervioso.

Chu es un panda que posee una extraña habilidad para meterse en dificultades. Los papás de Chu lo saben e intentan que el pequeño no estornude, pues como afirma el narrador: "Cuando Chu estornuda, ocurren cosas terribles". De hecho, su propio nombre suena a estornudo. Sin embargo, no es culpa de él, sino del polvo que hay en la vieja biblioteca que visitan o la pimienta del almuerzo. La obra destaca por su humor y su sencillez argumental; también por el sobresaliente trabajo del ilustrador Adam Rex, de quien Océano Travesía ha publicado con anterioridad Frankenstein se hace un sándwich y Frankenstein se lleva el pastel.

Este sorprendente libro combina texto, historieta y extraordinarias viñetas, todo ello obra del premiado escritor-ilustrador Adam Rex. Una niña de 11 años llamada Gratuity Tucci --a quien todos conocen como "Tip"-- debe escribir un ensayo para la escuela, el cual titula "El verdadero significado de Smekdía". Pero, ¿qué es Smekdía? Es el nombre con el que se conmemora la invasión extraterrestre ocurrida tiempo atrás. Los recién llegados han ocupado Estados Unidos, al cual rebautizaron como Smekland, en honor de su capitán Smek, obligando a los terrícolas a vivir en Florida. La novela ha sido adaptada a la gran pantalla por Dreamworks Animation.

~~LE LIVRE QUI A INSPIRE LE NOUVEAU FILM DE DREAMWORKS Comment ne pas paniquer lorsque vous vivez, comme Gratuity, sur la Terre envahie par les Boovs, d''étranges extraterrestres à huit pattes, que votre mère a été enlevée par ces mêmes créatures, qui ne vous laissent que quelques jours pour rejoindre la Floride, devenue une réserve naturelle d''humains ? Aucun problème : décidée à partir à la recherche de sa mère, l''adolescente, accompagnée de son chat lunatique Porky et de Oh, un alien déserteur, maladroit, pot de colle et malheureusement bricoleur, embarque pour un voyage rocambolesque à bord d''une voiture qui à présent flotte... Mais qui sait les surprises que la route leur réserve ? La belle équipe n''est plus à un dérapage près. " Ce premier roman réussi d''Adam Rex va captiver les fans des Annales du Disque-Monde, de Terry Pratchett, et de la satire outrageusement délicieuse Le Guide du voyageur galactique, de Douglas Adams. " – The New York Times

In this much anticipated sequel to The True Meaning of Smekday, Tip and J.Lo are back for another hilarious intergalactic adventure. And this time (and last time, and maybe next time), they want to make things right with the Boov. After Tip and J.Lo banished the Gorg from Earth in a scheme involving the cloning of many, many cats, the pair is notorious???but not for their heroics. Instead, human Dan Landry has taken credit for conquering the Gorg, and the Boov blame J.Lo for ruining their colonization of the planet. Determined to clear his name, J.Lo and Tip pack into Slushious, a Chevy that J.Lo has engineered into a fairly operational spaceship, and head to New Boovworld, the aliens'' new home on one of Saturn''s moons. But their welcome isn''t quite as warm as Tip and J.Lo would have liked. J.Lo is dubbed Public Enemy Number One, and Captain Smek knows that capturing the alien is the only way he''ll stand a chance in the Boovs'' first-ever presidential election. With the help of a friendly flying billboard named Bill, a journey through various garbage chutes, a bit of time travel, and a slew of hilarious Boovish accents, Tip and J.Lo must fight to set the record straight???and return home in once piece.

Chu es un panda que posee una extra?a habilidad para meterse en dificultades. Los pap?s de Chu lo saben e intentan que el peque?o no estornude, pues como afirma el narrador: "Cuando Chu estornuda, ocurren cosas terribles". De hecho, su propio nombre suena a estornudo. Sin embargo, no es culpa de ?l, sino del polvo que hay en la vieja biblioteca que visitan o la pimienta del almuerzo. La obra destaca por su humor y su sencillez argumental; tambi?n por el sobresaliente trabajo del ilustrador Adam Rex, de quien Oc?ano Traves?a ha publicado con anterioridad Frankenstein se hace un s?ndwich y Frankenstein se lleva el pastel.

Fans of Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson and the Olympians will definitely want to read Champions of Breakfast, the final book in Adam Rex''s acclaimed Cold Cereal Saga, which Eoin Colfer called "totally original and wholly brilliant." When we last left our kid heroes, Emily had managed to halt Queen Titania by closing a rift in the time-space continuum, trapping Scott, Mick, and her other friends in the magical other-England known as Pretannica. However, time is quickly running out before Nimue, who has been working through the corrupt Goodco Cereal Company, finds another portal and uses it to bring the mythical dragon Saxbriton into our world—and launch the terrible faerie invasion. In the end, it''s up to Scott and his companions to save the fate of two worlds and put an end to Goodco once and for all. Adam Rex ends the world as we know it—and the Cold Cereal Saga—with this hilarious and dazzling epic tale.

Ab März 2015 im Kino unter dem Titel "Home - ein smektakulärer Trip"mit den Sprechern Uwe Ochsenknecht, Bastian Pastewka, Josefine Preuß uvm. Nachdem die außerirdischen Boov die Erde bevölkert haben, ist die elfjährige Tip auf sich allein gestellt. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Mutter macht sie Bekanntschaft mit J.Lo, einem Außenseiter-Boov, in dem sie einen wahren Freund findet. Den braucht sie auch, denn ihre Reise hält einige Herausforderungen bereit: Die geklonten Gorg sind den Boov angeblich auf die Erde gefolgt, um die Menschheit von den Boov zu befreien. Als Einzige findet Tip heraus, dass die Gorg eine große Gefahr darstellen - doch wer glaubt schon einem halbwüchsigen Mädchen und einem Boov namens J.Lo?!

For fans of Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson & the Olympians comes the second book in Adam Rex''s acclaimed Cold Cereal Saga, about three kids who must save the world from the diabolical schemes of an evil breakfast company. Scottish Play Doe and his friends may have escaped from the clutches of the evil Nimue, but they''re not out of the woods just yet. The Goodco Cereal Company''s quest to take over the world is quickly gaining momentum: it has already started to sell cereals containing the magical chemical Intellijuice and, what''s worse, has kidnapped one of the world''s most important public figures, the Queen of England, and replaced her with goblin impersonators. When Scott and the others learn that Goodco is holding the real queen captive in a magical other-England, they decide to pass through a rift in the time-space continuum and rescue her—and hopefully convince the faeries to stop the invasion that will bring about the end of the world as they know it.

Aliens have invaded Earth and instructed all of the humans to move to Florida. They landed on Christmas Day - now named Smekday, after the glorious leader of the Boovs, Captain Smek. Gratuity Tucci doesn''t want to be shipped off to Florida in a rocketpod. She has a plan . . . Luckily Gratuity can drive - she nails tin cans to her shoes to reach the pedals. She had to learn after her mum was abducted by the aliens. So begins an epic journey with a brilliant girl hero, a cat named Pig and a friendly Boov who''s taken the human name J.Lo, all determined to save the Earth from a much bigger threat . . .This original, imaginative and wonderfully wacky sci-fi adventure inspired the major motion picture, HOME

Ciù è un piccolo panda con un grande starnuto. Quando Ciù starnutisce succedono disastri anche quando va al circo con i genitori.

Class Acts is your hall pass to great kids'' books! In this sampler, New York Times bestselling authors Tim Green (Football Genius), Dan Gutman (The Genius Files), Gordon Korman (Ungifted), Adam Rex (The Cold Cereal Saga), and Jon Scieszka (Guys Read) are teaming up with other stellar middle-grade authors: Bryan Chick (The Secret Zoo), Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson (The Familiars), Christopher Healy (The Hero''s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom), Nils Johnson-Shelton (Otherworld Chronicles), Jeramey Kraatz (The Cloak Society), Christopher Krovatin (Gravediggers), and Maryrose Wood (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place). Preview twelve awesome books, get hooked on favorite series, and decide for yourself which author is "best in class."

From author Adam Rex comes the first book in the Cold Cereal Saga—a hilarious, clever, and action-packed adventure series with an educational hook. Scottish Play Doe—aka Scott—is used to being a little different. Sometimes he hallucinates things no one else can see. But then one of these hallucinations tries to steal Scott''s backpack, and he comes face-to-face with an honest-to-goodness leprechaun named Mick who''s on the run from, of all things, the Goodco Cereal Company. With the help of his friends Erno and Emily, Scott and Mick uncover Goodco''s sinister plans—and take the first steps in saving the world from the evil cereal company. Like the Artemis Fowl Series and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, the Cold Cereal Saga takes elements of familiar mythology—in this case, Arthurian legend and Irish folklore—and reimagines it in the modern world with a cast of relatable characters and myriad magical beings. The story is told from multiple points of view, and there are dozens of illustrations—including "commercial breaks"—and stories within the story. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Frankenstein wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread, and the Headless Horseman wishes everyone would stop drooling over his pumpkin head.

Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it’s just not the same. Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for her—hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicated—it’s not as easy as studying Dracula. Especially when the star of Vampire Hunters is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings. . . . Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, Fat Vampire is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.

Will’s got it rough. He’s practically the only kid in school who hasn’t found out that he’s a wizard or a vampire or the child of a Norse god. But when a supervillain takes over the school and all the kids with powers are gone, it’s up to Will to try and save the day. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.

Truman

The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit.

Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monsters have.