  | Lunch walks among us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist ) Author: Benton, Jim | |
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Summary:
Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in.
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Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/03)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (12/03)
Full Text Reviews:
Bulletin for the Center... - 12/01/2003 Franny’s a young mad scientist, happily coexisting with bats and sending voltage through whatever’s lying around the house, which makes her the odd one out at school ("The other kids weren’t mean; they just had never known anybody like Franny"). After careful experimentation, Franny devises a method for improved social relations, which basically involves rejecting her mad-scientist side; when careless trash-can use results in the creation of a Giant Monstrous Fiend who kidnaps the class teacher, Franny must call on the skills she’s hidden in order to defeat it. This has the glib, kid-appealing insouciance of Captain Underpants with an intelligence all its own: kids may not get why Franny’s teacher is named Miss Shelly, but they’ll adore the generously flowing jokes about everything from pants-wetting to "unstable industrial waste," Franny’s quandary of self-presentation ("Deep down she knew the game would have been much more fun with a skull or giant squid eyeball"), and her defensive Lunch-Meat Monster, who defeats the Giant Monstrous Fiend. What’s more, Franny’s dilemma actually gives the effervescent tale a genuine plot and theme, which are carefully restrained to avoid overshadowing the humor but give the hijinks some shape and point. Broadly scrawled art has an animated flair; occasional special-effects pages that invite readers to cut on dotted lines will likely incur some maimage, but that won’t impair readerly enjoyment of the book. This is both smart and snork-worthy, an easy read that will appeal particularly to young cynics and goths-to-be. - Copyright 2003 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
