Dreadful Acts

Book Two in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy

The Eddie Dickens Trilogy (Volume 2 of 3)

Philip Ardagh; illustrated by David Roberts

Henry Holt and Co.

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The hilarious sequel to A House Called Awful End.

In this eagerly awaited sequel to A House Called Awful End, Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hot-air balloon, and arrested—only to find himself falling head-over-heels for a girl with a face like a camel’s and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts.

All the old favorite faces are here—including Mad Uncle Jack and Malcolm the stuffed stoat—along with some very worrying-looking new ones. Beware!

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Eddie found himself being lifted up by the neck, something that’d only been done to him once before (by a not-so-charming woman called Mrs. Cruel-Streak) and that hadn’t been half so frightening as it was now, having it done by an escaped convict in a cave, up on the misty moors when no one knew where he was. --from Dreadful Act

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A Book Sense Children's 76 Winter 2003 - 2004 title

"Ardagh's prose is a blend of archaic elegance, silly puns, and direct address, with playful author and plot digressions. . . . Black-and-white drawings with a touch of the macabre add further period flavor and farce. This will be great for series' fans, but it will also stand alone." --Booklist

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"[T]he series is endlessly jokey and playful. Many a child will laugh aloud at parenthetical snide remarks, and the illustrations by David Roberts have a very contemporary spookiness." --Bookpage

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Philip Ardagh; illustrated by David Roberts

Philip Ardagh is over six feet seven inches tall with a big bushy beard. Not only is he very large and very hairy, but he has also written around sixty children’s books for all ages. Currently a full-time writer living with a wife and two cats in a seaside town somewhere in England, he has been—among other things—an advertising copywriter, a hospital cleaner, a (highly unqualified) librarian, and a reader for the blind.

David Roberts is so busy drawing pictures that no one is really sure what he looks like. We do know that he has illustrated several books for children and lives somewhere in England, but whether his home is near the sea or not is anybody’s guess.

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Dreadful Acts
Book Two in the Eddie Dickens Trilogy
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy (Volume 2 of 3)
Philip Ardagh; illustrated by David Roberts

Hardcover

Hardcover
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Henry Holt and Co.
May 2003
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780805071559
ISBN10: 0805071555
Middle-Grade Fiction
5 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches, 144 pages, black and white illustrations throughout
Age Range: 9 to 14
Grade Range: 4 to 8
$12.95
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