“Jon Scieszka’s new series has the winning ingredients that link his clever brilliance in story telling with his knowledge of real science, while at the same time the combination of fiction and nonfiction appeals to the full range of the market. “Jon Scieszka’s new series has the winning ingredients that link his clever brilliance in story telling with his knowledge of real science, while at the same time the combination of fiction and nonfiction appeals to the full range of the market.” -Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt Jon Scieszka is one of the best writers around, and I can’t wait to see what he does with these fun and exciting characters.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Kids will love Frank Einstein, because even though he is a new character, he will be instantly recognizable to readers. Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Edison, steals Klink and Klank for his evil doomsday plan! Using real science, Jon Scieszka has created a unique world of adventure and science fiction-an irresistible chemical reaction for middle-grade listeners.Īdvance praise for Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions-the robots Klink and Klank-to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his Antimatter Motor. Frank Einstein (A), kid genius scientist and inventor, along with Klink (B), a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity, and Klank (C), a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity, create an Antimatter Motor using the three states of matter: solid (D), liquid (E), and gas (F), with plans to win the Midville Science. Edison shows up!įrank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. Which all works fine, until Frank’s classmate and archrival T. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Nowįrank Einstein (A), kid genius scientist and inventor, along with Klink (B), a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity, and Klank (C), a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity, create an Antimatter Motor using the three states of matter: solid (D), liquid (E), and gas (F), with plans to win the Midville Science Prize.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. In refusing to take itself too seriously, it proves that science can be as fun as it is important and useful. Biggs’s (the Everything Goes books) two-color cartoons and diagrams run the gamut from silly to scientific, and the same holds true of Scieszka’s story. The antimatter motor Frank whips up next for the science fair leads to a confrontation with his nemesis. Frank doesn’t succeed, but in one of the happy accidents that pepper scientific history (ahem, penicillin), Frank inadvertently lays the groundwork for the creation of two “self-assembled artificial-life” entities named Klink and Klank, fashioned from Shop-Vacs, Casio keyboards, and other mechanical detritus. Not unlike Shelley’s Frankenstein, science whiz Frank is trying to animate a robot he’s built in his garage lab. Tesla, the CERN particle collider, and more-in this first book in the Frank Einstein series, loosely based around the subject of matter. Scieszka (the Spaceheadz series) pulls in an array of scientific, cultural, and historical allusions and references-Einstein and Frankenstein, sure, but also James Bond, Edison vs.
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