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A Whole Nother Story (Whole Nother Story #1)
The three Cheeseman children, their father, and their psychic dog are all on the run. From whom? Well the CIA, naturally. But also corporate agents #5, #29, and # 207, plus two international superspies -- one of whom happens to be a chimpanzee. They all want Dr. Cheeseman and his late wife's greatest invention–a machine with unspeakable powers–OK, I'll say it. It's a time...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
December 22nd 2009
by Bloomsbury USA Childrens
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I do love an intelligently humorous book for kids, this one will appeal especially to boys and to everyone who enjoys wry humour, witty word-plays and not too exaggerated slap-stick humour.
(3rd grade +) This zany story is a fast-paced read, loaded with funny characters. I love that this family, composed of an inventor father; a teenage boy; a twelve-year old girl; an 8 year-old boy with a sock puppet named Steve; and a bald, psychic fox terrier named Pinky, is so supportive of their dad and of each other, despite their individual quirkiness. Ethan Cheeseman, the father, has nearly completed a time travel machine, which several entities want. The family is pursued by a cast of char...more
A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup is an hilarious novel in which you will meet: Three attractive, polite, relatively odor-free children; a physic, hairless dog; secret spy agents; and of course, Steve the sock puppet.
Mr. Cheeseman has a knack for inventing things. His latest invention, a time machine called the LVR, attracts many secret agencies that are forever trying to use it for their own evil deeds. No matter what they try to bribe him with, they never get to the time machine becau...more
Mr. Cheeseman has a knack for inventing things. His latest invention, a time machine called the LVR, attracts many secret agencies that are forever trying to use it for their own evil deeds. No matter what they try to bribe him with, they never get to the time machine becau...more
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Mr. Cheeseman is an inventor in the process of inventing something miraculous and marvelous in all sorts of ways. However, he has to finish it first. The problem is that it would be disastrous if it was to fall into the wrong hands - and many wrong hands are after it.
Forced to flee their house using their wits and an inertia ray (a cool gadget that actually slows down one's pursuers should you need one), Mr. Cheeseman and his three clean, polite, relatively...more
Mr. Cheeseman is an inventor in the process of inventing something miraculous and marvelous in all sorts of ways. However, he has to finish it first. The problem is that it would be disastrous if it was to fall into the wrong hands - and many wrong hands are after it.
Forced to flee their house using their wits and an inertia ray (a cool gadget that actually slows down one's pursuers should you need one), Mr. Cheeseman and his three clean, polite, relatively...more
This book, told by Dr. Cuthbert Soup is a delight. An inventor (Ethan Cheeseman) and his three children (ages 8, 12, 14) are on the run. Talk about corporate espionage! There are spies, and Mr. Cheeseman ends up losing his wife as he runs for his life after he invents a time machine. His children are described as in constant state of 'near friendlessness' because the family is constantly on the run from the villians in this story (there are many!) but you smile as each page turns because this st...more
Ethan Cheeseman has three (er, four?) children who are "attractive, polite, and relatively odor-free". The family, along with their psychic hairless dog, has been living on the run since Mrs. Cheeseman died a few years before. They are being pursued by some top-secret government agents, international super-spies accompanied by a variety of pets, and some evil corporate henchman. This motley crew of bad guys all have the same motive - get the LVR! The LVR is an amazing machine invented by Mr. and...more
In a very Lemony Snicket-ish manner, Dr. Cuthbert Soup introduces us to the Cheeseman family. I would share their names here but unfortunately, they change quite often! You see the Cheesemans are on the run from a few top secret agencies because of Mr.Cheeseman's invention, the LVR, an unfinished time machine. To keep himself and his three children, hairless psychic dog, and sock puppet friend safe, Cheeseman has taught his family to be ready to relocate at a moment's notice. There is never quit...more
This is a wonderfully entertaining children's novel. A father and his three children are on the run, staying ahead of corporate villains, secret government agents, and international superspies, all bent on getting their hands on his latest invention. With humor along the lines of Dave Barry, Douglas Adams, and (Brandon Sanderson's) Alcatraz series, it is often hilarious with off-the-wall narrative and side-commentary ("unsolicited advice").
Aside from the humor, I love the family relationships. T...more
Aside from the humor, I love the family relationships. T...more
This book is so funny. I liked it so much that I wrote to the author and he answered me back!
Hello Dr. Soup,
I've brought your book to my 14 year old son and he loved it.
I've listen to a couple of intense adult non-fiction books and decided that it is time for me to take a break with a funny book.
I was so lucky to download your first book and I was laughing out load.
Please, please, please write a book for adults.
I will be the first one to read it.
Meanwhile I will have to be satisfied with your ki...more
Hello Dr. Soup,
I've brought your book to my 14 year old son and he loved it.
I've listen to a couple of intense adult non-fiction books and decided that it is time for me to take a break with a funny book.
I was so lucky to download your first book and I was laughing out load.
Please, please, please write a book for adults.
I will be the first one to read it.
Meanwhile I will have to be satisfied with your ki...more
This is a very entertaining book filled with intriguing, unusual and sometimes delightfully silly characters. A fortuneteller with short term memory loss, a cowboy poet who rhymes too much, a tightrope walker who has vertigo, a hairless dog who can warn the family of danger approaching from miles away and a one eyed sock puppet who has a mind of his own, are just some of the characters who energize these pages. All these and more are a part of the everyday life of the Cheeseman family on the run...more
OK, I've read more complicated and longer books than this (Inheritance series, one dragon series by Chris d'Lacey I can't remember the name of), but none sillier that this. Mr. Ethan Cheeseman and his three attractive, polite, and relatively odor-free children, Saffron, Barton, and Crandall(later know as Magenta-Jean, Jough, and Gerard, in the same order) their psychic hairless dog, Pinky, and (OF COURSE), Crandall's sock puppet named Steve, on the run from top secret government agents, internat...more
For me, there's a bit of Twain in Dr. Soup's upcoming middle-grade novel. A combination of humor and satire grabs readers and encourages them along a swiftly narrated adventure. The action follows Mr. Cheeseman and his three unique and savvy children. On the lam in order to protect a time machine Mr. Cheeseman has created, they must elude an unbelievable and funny array of characters with ill intentions. Through the course of their journey, they befriend quirky characters and together become a t...more
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I loved it!!!!! This book is hilarious it is written well and loosens up the serious and sad moment and it grasps your attention and sucks you in. I checked it out on one morning and finished by the next day before lunch.
There is a family whose dad invented a time machine and criminals, government workers, and agents all want it. The family has to keep moving and they are getting tired of running and want to finish the time machine, so they can see their dead mother, but they never seem to have...more
There is a family whose dad invented a time machine and criminals, government workers, and agents all want it. The family has to keep moving and they are getting tired of running and want to finish the time machine, so they can see their dead mother, but they never seem to have...more
The book that I am choosing to review is called A Whole Nother story. The three main characters are Gerard, Maggie, Jough, Pinky, Mr. Cheeseman, and, of course, Steve, the rude sock puppet. Mr. Cheeseman is working on a time machine, called the L.V.R that everyone wants. So, the family is on the run from top secret agents, spies, and a few villains. They meet some strange people including a band of pirates, a poetic cowboy, and a ghost. The family comes face to face with the villains eventually...more
This is a book that I got from my mom--Thanks Mom! She happened to be sitting next to THE Dr. Cuthbert Soup on an airplane and he gave her a copy once she told him she had a 7 year old granddaughter. I decided to read it first to see what level it was and when my 7-year old would 'get it'. I had a bit of a hard time reading through the 'jokes'. I am glad I forced myself to read it through because there was a surprise at the end, where the action really got going and got a little better. It may b...more
"A Whole Nother Story" was an awesome book! The Cheeseman children and their father are on the run from government agents and international spies who are after Mr. Cheeseman's greatest invention, the LVR, a time machine. The Cheesemans must protect the LVR at all costs, because in the wrong hands, it could do unspeakable damage to the world as we know it. On the path of this zany story, they will meet some of the oddest characters around.
This book was a cross between Lemony Snicket's writing a...more
This book was a cross between Lemony Snicket's writing a...more
This is a fun "summer read". Meaning it is just a fun book to read for pure enjoyment.
The story is told with a wry sense of humor reminicent of Lemony Snicket, but with less biting wit and irony.
The story of three children escaping from dangerous people hot on their tail, but they do have their father who is also part of the escape plot. Along the way they meet some interesting characters and have to think fast and improvise ways to elude their would-be captors.
Despite the plot overview this is...more
The story is told with a wry sense of humor reminicent of Lemony Snicket, but with less biting wit and irony.
The story of three children escaping from dangerous people hot on their tail, but they do have their father who is also part of the escape plot. Along the way they meet some interesting characters and have to think fast and improvise ways to elude their would-be captors.
Despite the plot overview this is...more
This was a great, fun, surrealist romp of inanity. Three attractive, polite, and relatively odor-free children and their physicist father are on the run, led by their psychic hairless dog. From whom are they running? Why international super-spies, secret government agents, corporate espionage hacks, and a chimpanzee with a fish fetish, who else?
But not to fear; the family has forces on their side too. For a family is never alone when they have a cowboy poet and a traveling circus to lend a hand...more
But not to fear; the family has forces on their side too. For a family is never alone when they have a cowboy poet and a traveling circus to lend a hand...more
Dr. Cuthbert Soup joins those pseudonymous authors Snicket and Bosch who craft their tales with asides to the reader. Soup uses entire chapters to sail off on unrelated topics. And the story itself is just as quirky. Ethan Cheeseman has invented a time machine much coveted by others for nefarious activities. Unfortunately, these goons get to Mrs. Cheeseman and murder her before the Cheeseman family recognize the peril the invention has brought to their lives. Fortunately, they have a psychic dog...more
The cover of this book randomly caught my eye in the store, and by the time I had read the back cover and the two inside flaps I had already laughed out loud several times (including at the author's bio). I randomly opened it up to "Advice on Choosing a Dog," which was hilarious enough to read aloud to a couple folks nearby. So at that point I figured I ought to just get it and read the whole thing.
The feel of this book is kind of Lemony-Snicket-but-funnier, and I got a lot more good laughs out...more
The feel of this book is kind of Lemony-Snicket-but-funnier, and I got a lot more good laughs out...more
Although unable to discover this even with exhaustive research, the reader believes Lemony Snicket and Dr. Cuthbert Soup may be distant cousins. The same sense of smarmy humor and wise-cracks abound in this book about three siblings and their inventor father who are on the run from baddies and as the books about three siblings who are orphans on the run from baddies. Not nearly as formulaic as the Lemony Snicket books, but with a whole cast of whacky characters.
Read more of my review at the link...more
Read more of my review at the link...more
Like Deborah Wiles "Countdown," this is another book that is being talked up for the Newbery 2010 award that I abandoned after the first few chapters. (Abandoned for very different reasons.)
The tale is told in a voice similar to that of the Pseudonymous Bosch "The Name of this Book is Secret" series or even a smidge like "Lemony Snicket."
I immediately found the vocabulary WAAYYY too advanced for my K-4 students. I found myself re-reading passages, and I think this would turn a kid off right awa...more
The tale is told in a voice similar to that of the Pseudonymous Bosch "The Name of this Book is Secret" series or even a smidge like "Lemony Snicket."
I immediately found the vocabulary WAAYYY too advanced for my K-4 students. I found myself re-reading passages, and I think this would turn a kid off right awa...more
This is a great book to read in the summer. The plot is fairly fast moving and there are quirky characters with sometimes funny conversations. A light read that doesn't take all your brain power to read about.
While there isn't a HUGE plot I think it's a fun read for both parents and kids, and even those without kids.
I liked the characters because they were all unique and different and fun to read about. The plot was interesting but it did take a while to develop but the conversational tone of...more
While there isn't a HUGE plot I think it's a fun read for both parents and kids, and even those without kids.
I liked the characters because they were all unique and different and fun to read about. The plot was interesting but it did take a while to develop but the conversational tone of...more
This book has some very clever word play and asides, some of which seem to go over the heads of the kids, but enough of which hit the mark that it is enjoyable for them. I was reading this aloud to a 5th grade class this week and they seemed to enjoy it. The actual plot reads a bit like The Mysterious Benedict Society - a series of pseudo-threatening mad-cap adventures, culminating in one that does seem moderately realistically dangerous, but ending relatively happily, with promises of sequels t...more
4th/5th&up.
This story has a narrator who can't keep his mouth closed, a sense of style relatable to Lemony Snicket, a psychic dog and a cast of characters as varied as any reality television show. With plenty of action, humor and weirdness, as well as mentions of topics from tattoos, to amputations to delicious squash recipes, this story has everything. I found it frenetic and amusing. The climactic ending- full of gun-toting bad guys, chaos and circus people- leads to a cliffhanger ending t...more
This story has a narrator who can't keep his mouth closed, a sense of style relatable to Lemony Snicket, a psychic dog and a cast of characters as varied as any reality television show. With plenty of action, humor and weirdness, as well as mentions of topics from tattoos, to amputations to delicious squash recipes, this story has everything. I found it frenetic and amusing. The climactic ending- full of gun-toting bad guys, chaos and circus people- leads to a cliffhanger ending t...more
as a lover of absurd writing, i was thrilled to discover this book and can't wait to read the next book this author writes. i found myself giggling out loud at many different points in the book and my poor husband had to listen as I read him selections from the book in bed as he was trying to fall asleep. for a taste of the humor, go to the book's website: www.awholenotherbook.com . I was especially fond of the biographical video on the author, Dr. Cuthbert Soup.
If you love Douglas Adams, Adam R...more
If you love Douglas Adams, Adam R...more
Whole Nother Story is like Lemony Snicket as far as having an invented author/narrator and a tongue-in-cheek tone.
Main characters:
Mr. Ethan Cheeseman and his three quirky children
The father has invented a not-completed time travel device(LVR).
The family moves constantly because a super-secret government agency, spies from an Eastern European country, and the representatives of an evil corporation want the device and will do anything to get it.
Beginning of a series or at least another book- Ano...more
Main characters:
Mr. Ethan Cheeseman and his three quirky children
The father has invented a not-completed time travel device(LVR).
The family moves constantly because a super-secret government agency, spies from an Eastern European country, and the representatives of an evil corporation want the device and will do anything to get it.
Beginning of a series or at least another book- Ano...more
Ethan Cheeseman ist mit seinen Kindern auf der Flucht vor verschiedenen Agenten, die ihm seine Erfindung die LGS abjagen wollen. Die LGS ist eine Zeitmaschine, die leider im Moment noch nicht funktioniert und die die einzige Möglichkeit für die Familie ist, um in die Vergangenheit zu reisen um die Mutter der Kinder vor den Agenten zu retten, die sie vor zwei Jahren getötet haben.
Dieses Kinderbuch ist völlig verrückt und wird durch die vielen skurrilen Charaktere belebt. Die drei Kinder wechseln...more
Dieses Kinderbuch ist völlig verrückt und wird durch die vielen skurrilen Charaktere belebt. Die drei Kinder wechseln...more
HILARIOUS!! I tried to read this book to myself during a long road trip, but I was laughing so hard, it just became rude not to share it. I read about 85% of it to my husband during a 4-hour drive, and I've read it to every 5th grade class I've taught since then. The good guys are so quirky, they are completely believable. But the bad guys are so random, committed, and incompetent. This book is one implausible close call after another, and yet the plot makes complete sense. It's the book I wish...more
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