Saturday, May 16, 2009

Review: Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson & Rohitash Rao

We received an advanced reading copy of Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson & Rohitash Rao from Harper Collins First Look for Children. This book was released on May 5, 2009. This is a children's book for ages 9-12.

My son, Andrew, is 10 years old and he read this book and loved it. Even though it was missing some key elements such as many of the cartoons and several chapters were missing. That says a lot if he loved the book and it was missing so much and this is "A Novel in Cartoons". Andrew wanted to write his own review and I'm very proud of the wonderful job he did. You would make him very happy if you could leave a few comments for him.


Andrew's Review:

Herbert's Wormhole is about a boy traveling to the future. I loved the book and I hope that you do too. At the beginning, a boy named Alex a wanted a video game called Alien Slayer 2. So his parents gave in and bought it for him. Unfortunately, right after his parents bought Alien Slayer 2 Alien Slayer 3-D came out. In Alien Slayer 3-D it comes with all these cool swords and suits. He promised his parents that once he's finished with the game he will play out side for the rest of the summer. When he finished the game his mom sewed him a shirt that said I Love Slaying Aliens!



So, he put on the shirt and kept it on. His parents said they had a surprise for him outside. So he went out side and saw a jungle gym. He thought it was sorta babyish because he was going into 6th grade. Then his mom said he has to play with this kid named Herbert. Herbert is Alex's age and uses all these science words. Herbert has no friends. So Alex went inside Herbert's house to see if Hebert could play with him on his new jungle gym. When Alex walked in Herbert's room Alex was mad because Hebert got Alien Slayer 3-D and Herbert was taking it apart and making adjustments to two of the suits. For some reason Herbert and Alex had the suits on. Alex was playing on the jungle gym and Herbert was trying to walk through the fence. Suddenly, Alex accidentally hit a switch on the suit and Alex was getting sucked through the slide. Herbert was shouting at him to turn it off but it was to late. After they got sucked up by the slide they somehow ended up one hundred years later where G'daliens are friends with humans because they saved earth for them. Can Herbert and Alex get back to their normal time period or will they be stuck with G'daliens & not return home? Find out what will happen to them when you buy the book! G'day mates!






15 comments:

  1. Andrew, my son Dennis is turning 9 years old next week . . . he's always looking for a great book to read. Thank you for your review - we will look for this one and I'll be he will like it as much as you did.

    Nice job!

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  2. Andrew, that is a really well-written review! Very impressive!!!

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  3. Fantastic review! I want to read the book now and I'm 50.

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  4. Great review! You've made me want to read the book and share it with my nephews, who are your age.

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  5. This book sounds great, thanks for the well-written review, Andrew.

    I am always looking for books for my nieces and nephews, and I have added this one to my shopping list, thanks for recommending it.

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  6. Andrew really appreciates the comments so far and he says "Thanks!".

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  7. Great review! This sounds like a book my boys might like, especially since they love comic books and video games!

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  8. Andrew, great review. In fact, I'm going to buy it for one of my nephews (he's your age). I think he'd love it. Thanks for "guesting" on your mom's blog. Hope you can do it again!

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  9. Great review Andrew, and so well-written! This sounds like a book my nephew, Ian, would love. Thanks for the recommendation!

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  10. Andrew, that was a great review! Well thought out and well written. Keep up the good work.

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  11. Andrew,
    Bravo!!! Excellent review and this sounds like a fun book for kids to read!! I'm going to make sure that I get this one for my library shelves!!

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  12. Hey Andrew-it's nice to meet you on your mom's blog. What a great review! Way to go! The book sounds good-glad you liked it.

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  13. This is how a review should look! Good job Andrew! I will now look for this book for my daughter, Katherine (your mom knows her as Lady K). I might not have seen this book without your review. Thank you!

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  14. What a great review! So articulate, and I love the ending. (G'day to you too mate!) I think that my son would really like this too.

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  15. Hi Andrew! Your review was wonderful, you have me in suspense the way you ended it. :o) The review sounded very professional, great job.

    Bonnie (Savannah's Mom)

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