What do you think?
Rate this book
Le Roi Catastrophe / Tiny Tyrant
Tiny Tyrant: Volume Two: The Lucky Winner
The Tiny Tyrant Tyrannizes Again The world's most diminuative despot is back for six fun-filled stories busting with adventure and hilarity. Join young Ethelbert as he searches for smugglers, has difficulty with long words, and creates giant carnivorous rats for the citizens of Portocristo to enjoy. This companion to The Ethelbertosaurus offers readers more of the miniscule monarch in a large, kid-friendly format.
64 pages, Paperback
First published September 29, 2009
22 people want to read
About the author
Lewis Trondheim
515 books242 followersThe phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
December 22, 2020
Entertaining.
June 13, 2012
Trondheim, L. & Parme, F. Tiny Tyrant: The Lucky Winner. New York: First Second.
62 pages.
Appetizer: Oh, Tiny Tyrant. I love you. You entertain me greatly, King Ethelbert. But having said that, I am so thankful you are a character in a graphic novel series and that I will never have to parent you or babysit for you. Ever!
(Side note--Have I ever mentioned that I once had a child I babysat for pull a knife on me. True story. I'm no naive newby myself.)
This wee-little king could crush a person's soul, be a bit of a handful and drive people who survived torture without a single tear to weep uncontrollably.
For those of you who didn't see my last post about this graphic novel import, Tiny Tyrant is a collection of ten-page comics about the antics of a tiny little despot in an imaginary country.
In this volume, King Ethelbert is visited by a princess with an annoyingly large vocabulary and needs an interpreter to tell him what she is saying. In the next story, he is jealous of a game show winner who is going to India and decides to go on the trip instead. But the king, who is used to opulence, is less than excited about the hotel amenities when he arrives. The king also has to track down some pirates who are selling his image throughout the country and abroad, battle his cousin for their great aunt's inheritance, "rightsize" the world so that the world fits him and find the right biographer to write about his life (and create enough excitement for the biographer to write about).
While I have to admit, I laughed out loud less often with this volume than with the first one, I did really like the second to last story, "Rightsizing," in which a scientist finds a way to shrink objects and people to be to the size that King Ethelbert thinks is appropriate. I thought it really dealt with one of the key tensions of childhood and having to navigate the adult world. (But unlike other kiddies, King Ethelbert has the power to change the usual adult-favoring power dynamics in his country.)
As, with the first Tiny Tyrant book, I'd recommend this book to third or fourth graders and up. These books are an age appropriateness nightmare, since the protagonist is six, but include some vocabulary words that adults will have trouble with.
But, since the order that the reader looks at the panels is pretty straight forward, the books can also ease in readers who are still getting used to reading graphic novels. Some of the vocabulary will still be very advanced, but I remember reading a lot of comics myself and just ignoring the big words. (Of course, kids who were less lazy and smarter than me, probably looked them up in the dictionary. Good for those kids.)
I actually just used the first volume of Tiny Tyrant with some of my undergraduate students. They enjoyed it. Mostly they seemed confused about what age of student seemed appropriate. It was kinda cool that such a very practical teacher question was the first to come to their minds. Makes me a proud teacher.
Tasty Rating: !!!
62 pages.
Appetizer: Oh, Tiny Tyrant. I love you. You entertain me greatly, King Ethelbert. But having said that, I am so thankful you are a character in a graphic novel series and that I will never have to parent you or babysit for you. Ever!
(Side note--Have I ever mentioned that I once had a child I babysat for pull a knife on me. True story. I'm no naive newby myself.)
This wee-little king could crush a person's soul, be a bit of a handful and drive people who survived torture without a single tear to weep uncontrollably.
For those of you who didn't see my last post about this graphic novel import, Tiny Tyrant is a collection of ten-page comics about the antics of a tiny little despot in an imaginary country.
In this volume, King Ethelbert is visited by a princess with an annoyingly large vocabulary and needs an interpreter to tell him what she is saying. In the next story, he is jealous of a game show winner who is going to India and decides to go on the trip instead. But the king, who is used to opulence, is less than excited about the hotel amenities when he arrives. The king also has to track down some pirates who are selling his image throughout the country and abroad, battle his cousin for their great aunt's inheritance, "rightsize" the world so that the world fits him and find the right biographer to write about his life (and create enough excitement for the biographer to write about).
While I have to admit, I laughed out loud less often with this volume than with the first one, I did really like the second to last story, "Rightsizing," in which a scientist finds a way to shrink objects and people to be to the size that King Ethelbert thinks is appropriate. I thought it really dealt with one of the key tensions of childhood and having to navigate the adult world. (But unlike other kiddies, King Ethelbert has the power to change the usual adult-favoring power dynamics in his country.)
As, with the first Tiny Tyrant book, I'd recommend this book to third or fourth graders and up. These books are an age appropriateness nightmare, since the protagonist is six, but include some vocabulary words that adults will have trouble with.
But, since the order that the reader looks at the panels is pretty straight forward, the books can also ease in readers who are still getting used to reading graphic novels. Some of the vocabulary will still be very advanced, but I remember reading a lot of comics myself and just ignoring the big words. (Of course, kids who were less lazy and smarter than me, probably looked them up in the dictionary. Good for those kids.)
I actually just used the first volume of Tiny Tyrant with some of my undergraduate students. They enjoyed it. Mostly they seemed confused about what age of student seemed appropriate. It was kinda cool that such a very practical teacher question was the first to come to their minds. Makes me a proud teacher.
Tasty Rating: !!!
March 21, 2010
These books written by Lewis Trondheim are a hoot. They are very cleverly written that there are multiple laughs on every page. Each book has several short stories and all of them are good. The artist- Fabrice Parme puts tons of detail in each picture.The thing I like the most is they make me laugh too. These will do any library proud. Parents will enjoy this series as much as their kids, which makes them truly special.
May 1, 2011
as amusing as the first.
January 3, 2012
As in book one, his Majesty, Ethelbert the annoying is up to more hijinx. Excellently executed GN for tween boys, but somewhat tedious for me.
June 1, 2012
Goofily amusing.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews