| Description: |
|
Product Description
In this hilarious sequel to FAT CAMP COMMANDOS, the fat-camp dropouts are back...and ready to raise a ruckus in the Wild West!
Saddle up, cowpokes, and welcome to the Wild, Wild West! Ralph, Sylvia, and Mavis, the pudgy pranksters from FAT CAMP COMMANDOS, are back--and this time they are out to shake up the sleepy Western town of Horny Toad. After escaping from yet another fat-camp--this time in the guise of a fun ashram for kids--the chubby Nebula sibs join Mavis at Rough Ridin Rudy's Rootin-Tootin Rancho. Soon the feisty trio have kicked off an incredible campaign to draw crowds to Horny Toad--giving new meaning to the term "Wild West." And their surprise plan is literally out of this world!
Amazon.com Review
Thoroughly disgusted to find that, once again, they've been tricked by their parents into attending a fat camp (thinly disguised as Deepdip Cha-cha's Fun Ashram for Kids), Ralph and Sylvia Nebula hightail it out west to join their friend Mavis Goldfarb at her camp. But even here, at Rough-Ridin' Rudy's Rootin'-Tootin' Rancho, things are not as they should be. The aging, softening resident cowboys believe that the "dang-blasted, dad-gum healthies" who are converting the local dude ranches to health ashrams are driving away the customers who want the authentic Wild West experience. It's going to take some quick (and bizarre) thinking on Mavis's part to bring the two factions together again.
Bitingly clever, with jabs galore at cultural icons and social clichés, Daniel Pinkwater's sequel to Fat Camp Commandos is not quite as dazzling as the first--mostly due to the necessary recap of the earlier book's plot. Still, accompanied by Andy Rash's goofy drawings, Pinkwater's short chapter book is a big, happy step outside the norm. (Ages 8 to 13) --Emilie Coulter
|
