Mortimer Keene: Attack of the Slime Tim Healey 9780340997734 [USED COPY]

A wickedly funny series featuring Mortimer: the small kid with big ideas! In this book, Mortimer covers his whole school in slime. With slimy facts and activities at the back, perfect for young readers.

Mortimer Keene is full to bursting with madcap plans, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further! With laugh out loud illustrations, rollicking rhymes, and short chapters ideal for new readers, this first book sees Mortimer Keene and his slime machine on the attack!

When slime upon slime attacks the school, a special task force of teachers set out to find Mortimer Keene and his slime machine at the source of the crime...

Created by Chris Mould, illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas and Tim Healey. If you like Horrid Henry, you'll love Mortimer Keene.

From the irresistible pairing of Tim Healey and Chris Mould, comes Mortimer Keene: a wickedly funny new series. BEWARE! Mortimer's crazy ideas could rub off on you!

About the Author
Tim Healey (Author)
Tim Healey is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and author of over 40 children's titles. Following a brief spell working in publishing in London he has lived for more than 30 years in Oxford where he brought up his family. He is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, often contributing to the late John Peel's Home Truths.

Chris Mould (Illustrator)
Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time, he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up. Chris loves his work and writes and draws the kind of books that he would have liked to have on his shelf as a boy. He has won the Nottingham Children's Book Award, has been shortlisted for the Greenaway Award and commended for the Sheffield Book Award. Chris has also worked for the RSC, the BBC, the FT and many other famous initials, as well as for Aardman Animations, where he did character and environment development work on the film Flushed Away. Chris is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.



Reviews
A wonderfully inventive story, superbly presented and full of amazing ilustrations * Parents In Touch *
A fabulous little ditty ... full of laugh out loud lines and some fantastic illustrations ... Mortimer will quickly be a real favourite among newly independent readers * Birmingham Mail *
A fabulous little ditty... full of laugh-out-loud lines and some fantastic illustrations. Mortimer will quickly be a real favourite among newly independent readers. * Birmingham Mail *
With brilliantly rhyming text and bright green slime-filled illustrations from the masterful Chris Mould, Mortimer Keane is an excellent new series and can't wait for his next advenure * TBK Magazine *
Fun, fast-paced and engaging. A fabulous little ditty about a boy who has mischief running through his veins. * South Wales Echo *
A wonderfully inventive story, superbly presented and full of amazing illustrations. * Parents in Touch *
With brilliantly rhyming text and bright green slime-filled illustrations from the masterful Chris Mould, Mortimer Keane is an excellent new series and can't wait for his next adventure. * tBk Mag *



Book Information
ISBN 9780340997734
Author Tim Healey
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Hodder Children's Books
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Series Mortimer Keene
Weight(grams) 196g
Dimensions(mm) 184mm * 144mm * 10mm