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Cold Cereal (The Cold Cereal Saga #1)
by
Adam Rex (Goodreads Author)
Cold Cereal Facts Serving size 1 chapter Number of servings 40
Primary human characters 3
Scottish Play Doe, aka Scottpossible changeling Erno Utz genius Emily Utz supergenius Magical creatures at least 3
Mick Leprechaun (or Clurichaun)
Harvey Pooka (rabbit-man)
Biggs indeterminate origin (hairy, large)
Evil organizations 1
Goodco Cereal CompanyPurveyor of breakfast foods aspirin...more
Primary human characters 3
Scottish Play Doe, aka Scottpossible changeling Erno Utz genius Emily Utz supergenius Magical creatures at least 3
Mick Leprechaun (or Clurichaun)
Harvey Pooka (rabbit-man)
Biggs indeterminate origin (hairy, large)
Evil organizations 1
Goodco Cereal CompanyPurveyor of breakfast foods aspirin...more
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published
February 7th 2012
by Balzer + Bray
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This book had me until the very end - the satirical look at breakfast cereals (who wouldn't want to try Burlap Crisp or KoKo Lumps?), the unicat, Harvey the semi-invisible rabbit-man were all fun and a little charming. I got the joke about Sir Reggie Dwight being John Doe. The idea that Emily and Erno had a strange (ok, bizarre) home life, that Scott saw strange things, that Goodco was, well, evil? All well and good.
The setting is New Jersey and Goodco is a multi-national cereal company that als...more
The setting is New Jersey and Goodco is a multi-national cereal company that als...more
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Magical creatures (leprechauns, rabbit-men, fay, a might be bigfoot), clever young characters, wicked baddies, and an action packed, wildly fun and funny story…Cold Cereal by Adam Rex has everything you could ever want in an MG fantasy…and a heck of a lot that you never even knew you wanted!
SUMMARY ON BACK OF ARC
Scottish Play Doe—aka Scott—is used to being a little different, and not just because of his name. Sometimes he hallucinates thing...more
Magical creatures (leprechauns, rabbit-men, fay, a might be bigfoot), clever young characters, wicked baddies, and an action packed, wildly fun and funny story…Cold Cereal by Adam Rex has everything you could ever want in an MG fantasy…and a heck of a lot that you never even knew you wanted!
SUMMARY ON BACK OF ARC
Scottish Play Doe—aka Scott—is used to being a little different, and not just because of his name. Sometimes he hallucinates thing...more
Rex, A. (2012). Cold cereal. New York, New York: Balzer + Bray.
Cold Cereal is a fantasy novel seemingly about a cereal company’s plot to get kids hooked on their cereal. Three kids, Scottish (a.k.a. Scott) Play Doe, Emily, and Erno, come from different backgrounds to eventually beat the evil beings who run Goodco Cereal Company. Emily and Erno are supposedly twins, and their foster father Augustus Wilson, gives them cryptic games to play. He seems to do it because the kids enjoy it, but in reali...more
Cold Cereal is a fantasy novel seemingly about a cereal company’s plot to get kids hooked on their cereal. Three kids, Scottish (a.k.a. Scott) Play Doe, Emily, and Erno, come from different backgrounds to eventually beat the evil beings who run Goodco Cereal Company. Emily and Erno are supposedly twins, and their foster father Augustus Wilson, gives them cryptic games to play. He seems to do it because the kids enjoy it, but in reali...more
Scott, whose real name is Scottish Play Doe, has recently moved to Goodborough, New Jersey due to his mother’s new job at Goodco Cereal Company. Scott, who sometimes experiences hallucinations before getting migraines, begins to see some unusually strange, imaginary creatures such as a man with a rabbit head, a unicat (a cat with a single spiraling horn in the center of its forehead), and a leprechaun named Mick.
Mick informs Scott that Goodco has been kidnapping magical creatures for their magic...more
Mick informs Scott that Goodco has been kidnapping magical creatures for their magic...more
Cold Cereal is a funny, interesting, and normal book if you consider meeting a unicorn, a unicat, a 2-foot leprechaun in a red tracksuit, and a rabbit headed man normal! This book is simple and humorous but it has a sense of maturity to it. In this book the main characters include Scottish Play Doe aka Scott, his friends Erno and Emily Utz, and their suspiciously hairy housekeeper, Biggs. Scott, as the main character, is very interesting and I like him because though he may get scared easily he...more
I loved Adam Rex's first foray into middle grade books, the award-winning THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY. COLD CEREAL, unlike SMEKDAY, doesn't begin with an alien invasion and thus takes a bit longer to get off the ground. Instead, we're introduced to the Cold Cereal Trilogy's rather large ensemble which includes Erno and Emily Utz, twins who look nothing alike and live with their foster father and giant nanny, and Scottish Play Doe, the new kid in school who sees strange things. One of those thing...more
I am such a fan of Adam Rex's. I love his picture books, I love his books for older readers. He is so funny and writes about such great subjects. Cold Cereal is about a couple of siblings, twins, and a new kid who's just moved to their factory town. The factory in this case is a cereal factory run by scientists, one of whom is twins' foster father.
Scott, the new kid, is sure he's seeing things when he gets to town: A big pink rabbit, a little wrinkled man, a caticorn. He's a little worried that...more
Scott, the new kid, is sure he's seeing things when he gets to town: A big pink rabbit, a little wrinkled man, a caticorn. He's a little worried that...more
Cold Cereal by Adam Rex is a children's chapter book that pairs conspiracies, experiments on children, and magic. It is the first book in a magically delicious trilogy, which I sincerely hope has books two and three published very soon. Scottish Play Doe and his sister Polly are new in town. Scott just wants to blend in and get through each day, preferably with out a migraine inducing hallucinations. Erno and Emily Utz are on the outside of the school circles, for the most part, and soon the thr...more
Have you ever picked up a book on a sheer whim? Maybe it wasn't a whim exactly which led me to read, "Cold Cereal" but the book's odd brand of whimsy radiated from the moment I laid eyes on the cover.
In a plot that might delight fans of Terry Pratchet, Lemony Snicket and Monty Python, a clash of fairies, knights and breakfast cereals come together in a hodgepodge of humor and adventure that makes up the first in what appears to be a new series.
Scottish Play Doe (Scott) is the son of a movie sta...more
In a plot that might delight fans of Terry Pratchet, Lemony Snicket and Monty Python, a clash of fairies, knights and breakfast cereals come together in a hodgepodge of humor and adventure that makes up the first in what appears to be a new series.
Scottish Play Doe (Scott) is the son of a movie sta...more
This book was amazingly hilarious.
I picked it up because it was cheap and I keep looking for things that would appeal to my daughter, and I trusted Adam Rex because we all love the Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich books so much (they're really excellent).
Cold Cereal is a romp in the vein of The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Westing Game. A trio of kids and some supporting quasi-adults work together to take down a sinister company with shadowy motivations. I am sort of enjoyin...more
I picked it up because it was cheap and I keep looking for things that would appeal to my daughter, and I trusted Adam Rex because we all love the Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich books so much (they're really excellent).
Cold Cereal is a romp in the vein of The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Westing Game. A trio of kids and some supporting quasi-adults work together to take down a sinister company with shadowy motivations. I am sort of enjoyin...more
World domination in the guise of a delicious breakfast cereal!?
That is the least of Scottish P. Doe's troubles. The first of which would be his middle name, not Paul, not Peter...yes, Play, Scottish Play Doe. If that's not enough he also suffers from migraine headaches preceded by odd "auras," such as Mermaids, Bunny Men and Unicorns. Unsurprisingly Scott has a difficult time adjusting to new schools, but at this particular school he has some petty tough competition for the weirdest kid. Emily U...more
That is the least of Scottish P. Doe's troubles. The first of which would be his middle name, not Paul, not Peter...yes, Play, Scottish Play Doe. If that's not enough he also suffers from migraine headaches preceded by odd "auras," such as Mermaids, Bunny Men and Unicorns. Unsurprisingly Scott has a difficult time adjusting to new schools, but at this particular school he has some petty tough competition for the weirdest kid. Emily U...more
I didn't get interested in the book until p. 45, when a classmate hurls a truly horrid insult at Emily. Unfortunately, after mentioning that all the kids thought the classmate had gone too far with that comment, the classmates, and the meanness, disappear from the story line without any consequences to the student who made the comment.
The author inserts a number of passages that are unique or otherwise very well written, and it's a joy to come upon them. I hesitate to recommend the story to chi...more
The author inserts a number of passages that are unique or otherwise very well written, and it's a joy to come upon them. I hesitate to recommend the story to chi...more
Is the Goode and Harmliss Toasted Cereal Company (Goodco) really slipping strange chemical additives (like Milk-7) into its boxes of Burlap Crisp™ and Snox™ in an attempt to turn children into an army of sugar zombies with which to conquer the world? And if so, who can stop these “purveyors of breakfast foods aspiring to world domination?” What about three kids, a leprechaun in a red track suit, a pooka, a giant, a time-traveling wizard, and a fire-breathing finch? As advertized on its packaging...more
When sixth grader Scottish Play Doe starts a new school he prefers to go by “Scott”. Wouldn’t you? Erno and Emily are twins in Scott’s class. They are wicked smart – especially Emily. This makes them “weird”, kind of like Scott the new kid with the funny name, so they end up sitting together on the bus. The three of them discover that smart is something they have in common. That, and the fact that Scott’s Mom and Erno and Emily’s foster Dad both work at the Goodco Cereal Company.
On a field trip...more
On a field trip...more
Scottish Play Doe, who prefers to be called Scott, is the new kid in school and is trying to blend in. It doesn't help when he starts seeing things that should not be there like unicorns, rabbit men, and leprechauns. Erno and Emily Utz are super smart twins whose foster father provides them with riddles to solve and the one who solves it first gets a special prize. Both Scott's mother and Erno and Emily's foster father (and most of the people who live in the town) work for the Goodco Cereal Comp...more
Oh, Adam Rex. You are so cool, I can't really stand it.
Example:
In the prologue of this book, a series of people are passing by a pet carrier in an airport...
"A woman with a tight ponytail that hoisted her face into a permanent, painted grin bent in front of the cage.
'Aw, hewwo, widdle Chihuahua,' she said. 'Hewwo.' Then she rose to go wherever it is people like that come from."
Seriously. I love this man. I want all his tshirts.
That said...
There is A LOT going on in this book. Junk Food Factory,...more
Example:
In the prologue of this book, a series of people are passing by a pet carrier in an airport...
"A woman with a tight ponytail that hoisted her face into a permanent, painted grin bent in front of the cage.
'Aw, hewwo, widdle Chihuahua,' she said. 'Hewwo.' Then she rose to go wherever it is people like that come from."
Seriously. I love this man. I want all his tshirts.
That said...
There is A LOT going on in this book. Junk Food Factory,...more
Just what exactly is in all those cereal boxes with the cute bunny, magical creatures, and shining stars inside? Do the ingredients really make kids superintelligent? What are all the mystical sightings about? Would you believe that leprechauns, Merlin, The Lady of the Lake, and Bigfoot may have something to do with all the weird happenings at the Goodco Company. Who are they, and who is a good guy and who is the bad one? Supergenius Emily, genius Erno, and new kid, Scott aim to find out before...more
Adam Rex is a man I would love to meet, except I think I'd be too intimidated by his brilliance. Cold Cereal a story that mixes mystery, suspense, Fay creatures, villians, Cryptids and humor, and turns it all into a delicious feast for the reader. Scott's mother has been hired by Goodco cereal company, so his family must move to Goodborough, NJ where the company is headquartered. On his first day of school, which happens to coincide with a field trip to said HQ, he meet Erno and Emily, siblings...more
What do an evil cereal company, a grumpy leprechaun, a pair of twins who look nothing alike, King Arthur, a giant rabbit-man, dragons, and Shakespeare have in common? They're all packed into Adam Rex's strange and funny new book, Cold Cereal.
If you enjoy twisting plots, folklore, riddles, and silly jokes, then this may be your favorite book of the year. However, some readers may find their minds over-boggled by the complicated fantasy world created in this book. I read an interview with Adam Rex...more
If you enjoy twisting plots, folklore, riddles, and silly jokes, then this may be your favorite book of the year. However, some readers may find their minds over-boggled by the complicated fantasy world created in this book. I read an interview with Adam Rex...more
I wanted to love this book . . . I really did. The premise of an evil cereal manufacturer stealing the magic of leprechauns, rabbits, and vampires to make its cereals so addicting is genius. But I just couldn't get into this book. It seemed like there was just one crazy thing happening after another and one crazy creature being introduced after another . . . many from completely out of nowhere. It kind of reminded me of the bedtime stories I made up for my kids when they were younger . . .adding...more
Scott P. Doe is a new kid in town. He tries to make friends at his school and gets to know two twins that don't even look like they are brother and sister. Erno is in the gifted and talented progrm just like Scott. They become friends and try to figure out puzzles that Erno's stepfather writes to pit Emily against Erno in the intelligence realm.
Scott starts seeing magical creatures. He helps a leprachaun escape and Mick is indebted to Scott to repay the favor. The Goode Cereal company has sent...more
Scott starts seeing magical creatures. He helps a leprachaun escape and Mick is indebted to Scott to repay the favor. The Goode Cereal company has sent...more
First of all, thank you NetGalley for allowing me to preview Adam Rex's latest book! I wasn't disappointed. Well, I was just a little disappointed because of the artwork that is yet to come. I could tell that the illustrations were going to be amazing and essential for the whole book from the few that are finished and in the prepub.
Adam Rex has created a fantasy adventure story that somehow combines a cereal factory, a leprechaun, a man with a rabbit head, unicats, Bigfoot, 3 children (who are...more
Adam Rex has created a fantasy adventure story that somehow combines a cereal factory, a leprechaun, a man with a rabbit head, unicats, Bigfoot, 3 children (who are...more
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The book flap is a great , clever introduction to the book, made out like a cereal box's ingredients and stating the main characters both human and Fay (magical) and indicating that the Goodco Cereal Co aspires to world domination. Moreover it lists the percentages of adventure, danger, magic, puzzles, diabolical schemes, legend, humor, and mystery. What's not to like?
The concept of a cereal company putting odd things into their products and kids wearing orthodontic apparatuses that also have un...more
Why do they have creatures like leprechauns and giant rabbits selling breakfast cereal to kids? Scott (Scottish Play Doe) and his new friends Erno and Emily are about to find out. Scott's been having hallucinations most of his life, but learned to act as if he doesn't. Erno's a genius, who has also managed to get along. Emily is a supergenius, who hasn't. The GoodCo Cereal Company has a lot to do with all of this. Plot twists, mysteries and strange juxtapositions of pop culture icons abound, but...more
Scottish Play Doe (Scott) moves to the town of Goodco with his mom. He meets Erno and Emily who's foster father Mr. Wilson also works for Goodco. Erno and Emily are given tests by Mr. Wilson that they think of as fun games, but in reality are tests for Goodco. Goodco is an evil cereal company who does tests on children, steals magic from mythical creatures, and wants to rule the world. Scott starts seeing the mythical creatures around him after Mick, a clericaun/leprechaun, tries to steal his ba...more
What would you think if on your first day at a new school you saw a little man in a dog carrier and a giant rabbit dressed like a man and you were the only one who could see them? This is exactly what happens to Scottish Play Doe (yes that is his real name) when his mom and sister relocate to the Goodeco Cereal Company where his mom works. The employee's kids all attend the school and Scott's new friends are a bit different from other kids. Scott and his new friends (from the fairy realm and rea...more
It's taken me a while to get this review written up, primarily because I'm not completely sure what to make of this book. If I had to describe it in one word it would be: odd. This book is very odd. To be sure it has adventure and humor and continuously pokes fun at the role that advertising and big corporations play in the lives of children. I am not particularly a big fan of odd books, but at the same time, Rex pulled me into the story enough that I wanted to finish it. And I will definitely...more
This book is hilarious. Like utterly zany, ridiculous hilarious.
In a company town that makes cereal, the cereal icons are actually on the run from the corporation. (A rabbit man named Harvey, a leprechaun named Mick, etc.) Two twins and a new boy named "Scott" (sort of) are thrown head first into the mystery of what is going on in this town.
Kids will love the fast paced adventure (Eion Colfer blurbed it and I'd say it would appeal to the same audience) but if adults read it there are in-jokes...more
In a company town that makes cereal, the cereal icons are actually on the run from the corporation. (A rabbit man named Harvey, a leprechaun named Mick, etc.) Two twins and a new boy named "Scott" (sort of) are thrown head first into the mystery of what is going on in this town.
Kids will love the fast paced adventure (Eion Colfer blurbed it and I'd say it would appeal to the same audience) but if adults read it there are in-jokes...more
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Adam Rex grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, the middle of three children. He was neither the smart one (older brother) or the cute one (younger sister), but he was the one who could draw. He took a lot of art classes as a kid, trying to learn to draw better, and started painting when he was 11. And later in life he was drawn down to Tucson in order to hone his skills, get a BFA from the University of Ar...more
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