The young heroine is clearly not an average child: she fills her room with bats, snakes and a flying piranha-plus test tubes, beakers and "a whole bunch of crackling electrical gizmos that had made all by herself." Not surprisingly, the other kids at school keep their distance when they see Franny using a snake for a jump rope (never mind that her favorite doll, Chompolina, sports steel teeth that can bite off the heads of other dolls). Stein, Mad Scientist series gets off to a silly start with this copiously and cartoonishly illustrated novel, which bears at least a passing visual resemblance to Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants capers. This short and fun story with whimsical black & white illustrations by the author is a great find for kids who have a taste for the gooey part of science, monsters and unusual pets.The Franny K. But when a Pumpkin-Crab MonsterĬomes out of a school trash can and kidnaps the teacher, Franny has to choose between saving the day using her mad scientist Immediate effect, and the kids seem to like her now. Based on her conclusions, Franny creates a potion to transforms herself into a nice-looking girl, modifies her head-biting doll into a glittery beauty and gets a squashy white bread sandwich for lunch, just like all the other kids.
New teacher likes her and gives her a good advice: think of making friends as an experiment!Įxcited about the experiment, Franny makes her observations of the other kids (dolls they play with, lunch they eat, etc.) and analyses the data collected. Makes Franny sad, as she really wants them to be her friends.
Schools, her new classmates are afraid of her weird style and behavior. In addition, she has a giant tarantula, a snake, a flying piranha and several bats as her pets. Her room is filled with steaming test tubes, strange bubbling beakers and a bunch of crackling electrical gizmos that Franny had made by herself. It also raises such important topics for kids as being yourself and accepting other people’s differences.įranny is an original main character, who loves the gooey part of science and all things that are dark, and creepy, and spooky. Stein, Mad Scientist” chapter book series by Jim Benton, it manages to combine a really quirky main character and the scientific method. I didn’t expect “ Lunch Walks Among Us” to be such a fun story! Being the first book in the “Franny K. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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