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Maudlin Towers #3
Attack of the Meteor Monsters
Mildew and Sponge don't think much of Maudlin Towers, the blackened, gloom-laden, gargoyle-infested monstrosity that is their school. But when a meteorite crash-lands in the school grounds, things become even stranger than they have ever been before!
Not only do a group of schoolgirls and their teacher turn up needing somewhere to stay, but further investigation of the meteorite soon proves that it might be a spaceship. Could aliens be hiding in the school grounds somewhere? (You might have spotted them already!) Plus, has anyone noticed a giant eyeball floating about the place?
Most importantly, can Mildew and Sponge save the day - and the school - once more?
Not only do a group of schoolgirls and their teacher turn up needing somewhere to stay, but further investigation of the meteorite soon proves that it might be a spaceship. Could aliens be hiding in the school grounds somewhere? (You might have spotted them already!) Plus, has anyone noticed a giant eyeball floating about the place?
Most importantly, can Mildew and Sponge save the day - and the school - once more?
- GenresChildrens
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Chris Priestley
51 books392 followersHis father was in the army and so he moved around a lot as a child and lived in Wales. He was an avid reader of American comics as a child, and when he was eight or nine, and living in Gibraltar, he won a prize in a newspaper story-writing competition. He decided then “that my ambition was to write and illustrate my own book”.
He spent his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to Manchester, London and then Norfolk. He now lives in Cambridge with his wife and son where he writes, draws, paints, dreams and doodles (not necessarily in that order). Chris worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years, working mainly for magazines & newspapers (these include The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal) before becoming a writer. He currently has a weekly strip cartoon called 'Payne's Grey' in the New Statesman.
Chris has been a published author since 2000. He has written several books for children & young-adults, both fiction and non-fiction, and
has been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. In recent years he has predominantly been writing horror.
Ever since he was a teenager Chris has loved unsettling and creepy stories, with fond memories of buying comics like 'Strange Tales' and 'House of Mystery', watching classic BBC TV adaptations of M R James ghost stories every Christmas and reading assorted weirdness by everyone from Edgar Allen Poe to Ray Bradbury. He hopes Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror will haunt his readers in the way those writers have haunted him.
He spent his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to Manchester, London and then Norfolk. He now lives in Cambridge with his wife and son where he writes, draws, paints, dreams and doodles (not necessarily in that order). Chris worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years, working mainly for magazines & newspapers (these include The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal) before becoming a writer. He currently has a weekly strip cartoon called 'Payne's Grey' in the New Statesman.
Chris has been a published author since 2000. He has written several books for children & young-adults, both fiction and non-fiction, and
has been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. In recent years he has predominantly been writing horror.
Ever since he was a teenager Chris has loved unsettling and creepy stories, with fond memories of buying comics like 'Strange Tales' and 'House of Mystery', watching classic BBC TV adaptations of M R James ghost stories every Christmas and reading assorted weirdness by everyone from Edgar Allen Poe to Ray Bradbury. He hopes Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror will haunt his readers in the way those writers have haunted him.
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December 27, 2022
Lots of fun, a breeze to read with very funny pictures. This is silly humour in a chapter book that reminds me of a fantasy/time travel version of Up with Skool! and Nigel Molesworth.
Mildew and Sponge get up to all sorts of British schoolboy japes (yes, that seems the right sort of word) but with time travel, unidentified falling objects and meteors, navigating their way around school librarians, masters, biscuits, other boys (who might not be of this planet) and that all-time mystery ... girls!
Great for a giggle.
Mildew and Sponge get up to all sorts of British schoolboy japes (yes, that seems the right sort of word) but with time travel, unidentified falling objects and meteors, navigating their way around school librarians, masters, biscuits, other boys (who might not be of this planet) and that all-time mystery ... girls!
Great for a giggle.
March 2, 2023
After the clear linear narrative of book two, we are back to time travel again. Tsk. There is no great merit in being hapless in the face of temporal anomaly. Sherlock Holmes himself would be befuddled.
The characters and setting deserve better plots than this.
The characters and setting deserve better plots than this.
January 28, 2024
quite funny I love all the strange names and the innocent humour in these books
September 17, 2020
A fantastical tale with aliens, humour, time travelling that may hurt your brain, friendship, dreadful boarding schools, and more.
I am so delighted that this series gets new books each time, I am definitely looking forward to the next one (and I am wondering what colour it will be, so far we had orange, green, blue, so maybe yellow or purple next?
I had so much fun reading this one and I flew through it. I laughed, I giggled, and yes, I did get a tiny bit of a headache because of the time travelling and how things connected to the other books even further because of that. I just love it when authors do it, gives it a whole new dimension to the book and definitely makes me want to re-read the other books to see if we can see hints to it that we may have not noticed before.
How Stupendo did something Stupido was just hilarious, I could have told the boys that sending him back was a bad idea.
I loved reading how the various aliens got here and how I just had a giggle that no one believed the boys at first because they thought the boys just thought the girls were aliens because that is what boys think at that age. No, I don’t see it a spoiler as you know from the start the girls are not who they say they are, at least for me it was so obvious. I loved the girls and they were so sweet and I do hope that we do see them next time again. I had a big laugh when the boys asked for x and then there reaction to it.
I loved seeing the future and what happens to Maudlin Towers in the future. I hope we see more of Ella as she is one of my favourite characters.
Also I do hope that those two teachers may get together. crosses fingers Though I do hope it won’t end in tragedy.
And just like always, Chris Priestley’s art is awesome!
Now to wait for the next book in this series. I would highly recommend this book, and of course the series, to everyone.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I am so delighted that this series gets new books each time, I am definitely looking forward to the next one (and I am wondering what colour it will be, so far we had orange, green, blue, so maybe yellow or purple next?
I had so much fun reading this one and I flew through it. I laughed, I giggled, and yes, I did get a tiny bit of a headache because of the time travelling and how things connected to the other books even further because of that. I just love it when authors do it, gives it a whole new dimension to the book and definitely makes me want to re-read the other books to see if we can see hints to it that we may have not noticed before.
How Stupendo did something Stupido was just hilarious, I could have told the boys that sending him back was a bad idea.
I loved reading how the various aliens got here and how I just had a giggle that no one believed the boys at first because they thought the boys just thought the girls were aliens because that is what boys think at that age. No, I don’t see it a spoiler as you know from the start the girls are not who they say they are, at least for me it was so obvious. I loved the girls and they were so sweet and I do hope that we do see them next time again. I had a big laugh when the boys asked for x and then there reaction to it.
I loved seeing the future and what happens to Maudlin Towers in the future. I hope we see more of Ella as she is one of my favourite characters.
Also I do hope that those two teachers may get together. crosses fingers Though I do hope it won’t end in tragedy.
And just like always, Chris Priestley’s art is awesome!
Now to wait for the next book in this series. I would highly recommend this book, and of course the series, to everyone.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
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