The Emperor's New Clones

by Jonathan Emmett, Martin Ed Chatterton (Illustrator)

Nine-year-old Robbie Remus has just become Emperor of the Galaxy. But all he really wants to do is play blasterball! He finds all of his official duties very boring indeed. If only there was someone else to do them for him. But then Robbie meets Professor Parton. The Professor has just invented a cloning machine, which gives Rodney an excellent idea.

Genres: Science Fiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire in 1965, the son of a factory fitter and a primary school teacher.

Jonathan loved books from an early age and some of his earliest memories are of visiting his local library. The picture books that he borrowed then, including Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson have had a great influence on the picture books that he now writes.

It was while Jonathan was at college, studying architecture, that he first started developing his own illustrated texts, illustrating poems and lyrics that he’d written. Pleased with the results, he found himself spending more and more time on writing and illustration. Although he qualified as an architect, he found the job unsatisfying and began pursuing a career in children's books in his spare time, eventually going full-time in 1995, a few months before his thirtieth birthday.

As well as writing picture books such as Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger, Pigs Might Fly and Ruby Flew Too, Jonathan also writes and paper-engineers pop-up books. His books have won several awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award “Book for Younger Children” for Pigs Might Fly and the Kiekeboekprijs for Bringing Down the Moon.

He now lives in Nottingham with his wife, Rachel, and children, Max and Laura.

You can visit Jonathan’s website atjonathanemmett.com

Reviews

[Reetta Saine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kiitopallon ratkaisuottelut lähestyvät, ja Roni on innoissaan. Sitten galaksin keisarinna kuolla kupsahtaa, ja arvonnassa Roni voittaa... Vai voittaako?

Ihan hupaisankepeä urheilua sivuava banaani.

[Tracey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was not overly excited to read this book as it tended to waffle on a bit too much. Basically Robbie becomes the new emperor, which he really hates. The royal duties keep him away from doing what he really wants to do and that is play blasterball. After finding a scientist during one of his royal visits, who is able to make clones - Robbie then has a super idea on how to get through his royal duties and getting to play blasterball all at once.

[Matti Karjalainen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Roni haluaa pelata vain ja ainoastaan kiitopalloa, mutta hetkeä ennen finaaliottelua hänet valitaankin arvalla koko galaksin keisariksi. Se tietää paljon tylsiä velvollisuuksia. Tiedekeskuksen avajaisissa hän löytää kuitenkin itsensä professorin laboratoriosta, josta löytyy kloonaukseen käytettävä Tuplannin. Onko siinä ratkaisu kaikkeen?

Jonathan Emmettin "Keisarin uudet kloonit" (Mäkelä, 2016) on perusajatukseltaan hilpeä helppolukuinen, joka ei kuitenkaan realisoidu niin hyväksi tarinaksi kuin toivoa olisi sopinut. Parempiakin Punaisia Banaaneja löytyy vinkkauskäyttöön.

[Markku Kesti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vähän pöhkö, mutta vauhdikas hupailu arvalla galaksin keisariksi päätyneestä pojasta joka haluaisi vain pelata kiitopalloa kavereiden kanssa. Kaksi ja puoli tähteä joka tänään pyöristyy ylöspäin.