Puzzle Body: Beware Invading Bugs

by Stephen Stanley

It was similar to "Where's Wally?" where you find the characters. However, there were many characters, usually oddly shaped, sought of like monsters (Ninja, Red jug, Army Lieutenant) and they are all trying to escape the human body, with one character dying on each page and the others progressing and evolving. This was a fantastic childhood picture book

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Cartoonist Stephen Stanley was born at an early age in the quaint English village of Liverpool, and started sending drawings off to newspapers and magazines when he was 10. His family moved to Whyalla in South Australia when he was 16 and he was soon having his work published. He first drew comic strips (See UP WITH LAFFERTY and GEORGE THE ROBT, both collections of his strips on LULU.) then moved on to illustrating books for children with the most well known being his PUZZLE series. These are now being reprinted as LULU books starting with STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE BODY, STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE KINGDOMS and STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE ANIMALS, with more books in the series to follow. There are lots of other of Stephen's books on LULU, including TWELVE MINDLESS ZOMBIES and WHEELCHAIR WORLD. Have fun.

Reviews

[Hugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this so many times as a kid! Such a fun book with several bugs invading a human body only to be thwarted on each page by the body's defenses.

It's sad seeing your favourites getting picked off one by one, but it's also fun seeing them mutate into bigger bugs as the pages progress. That was easily my favourite part of the book, reminded me of Pokemon.

For nostalgia's sake, I've been looking high and low to find a copy of this book and it appears that Stephen Stanley has reprinted the book and it's available once more.

On Stephen Stanley, he has a very distinct art style and sense of humour which shines through in every one of his books. I highly recommend "Puzzle Kingdoms" which is another one of my favourites from my childhood.