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A review by sam_the_book_dog
The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable by Aaron Blabey
5.0
I read the first book of this series a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. My students frequently request "funny books," and while I am quite well read. . . I usually come up close to empty. This series is my new go-to for my funny quotient.
In book one, a number of animal characters known for being storybook villians--a wolf, a shark, a snake, and a pirahna--determine to be Good Guys. So they set out to do a good deed, a heroic act! They plan a jailbreak at the dog pound, which interestingly enough is run by animals in the monkey-gorilla family. I didn't think anything of that little factoid until this new installment. . .
Book 2 opens with the nightly news reporting on the dastardly villains that broke into the dog shelter. The four, who set out to be Good Guys, now have wanted posters with scary descriptors. Isn't that always the way?
So they set out to perform a bigger and better heroic heist--they are going to rescue the chickens at the local chicken farm. For this, they must call in the big guns--a tarantula! After some initial internal biases between the "bad guys" turned heroes finding tarantulas terrifying, they set to work. . . with some slight foreshadowing that a snake may be a problematic hero to go into a chicken farm. . . to rescue chickens.
Once again, the guards running the chicken imprisonment are in the monkey-gorilla family. I think a point is being made.
This story was just as entertaining as the last, and I loved the illustrations. I'm looking forward to collecting this series. I think some of my more reluctant readers will be carried along by the humor and the pictures.
In book one, a number of animal characters known for being storybook villians--a wolf, a shark, a snake, and a pirahna--determine to be Good Guys. So they set out to do a good deed, a heroic act! They plan a jailbreak at the dog pound, which interestingly enough is run by animals in the monkey-gorilla family. I didn't think anything of that little factoid until this new installment. . .
Book 2 opens with the nightly news reporting on the dastardly villains that broke into the dog shelter. The four, who set out to be Good Guys, now have wanted posters with scary descriptors. Isn't that always the way?
So they set out to perform a bigger and better heroic heist--they are going to rescue the chickens at the local chicken farm. For this, they must call in the big guns--a tarantula! After some initial internal biases between the "bad guys" turned heroes finding tarantulas terrifying, they set to work. . . with some slight foreshadowing that a snake may be a problematic hero to go into a chicken farm. . . to rescue chickens.
Once again, the guards running the chicken imprisonment are in the monkey-gorilla family. I think a point is being made.
This story was just as entertaining as the last, and I loved the illustrations. I'm looking forward to collecting this series. I think some of my more reluctant readers will be carried along by the humor and the pictures.