The Exquisite Corpse Adventure

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Take twenty top kids authors and illustrators. Give them free rein to take turns creating a zany progressive story. What could possibly happen next

It all starts with a train rushing through the night. . . . Well, actually, it starts when Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, writes a cliff-hanger episode and passes it on to the next member of a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who continues the story and passes it on. And what happens between episodes one and twenty-seven Think werewolves and mad scientists, a talking pig, plenty of explosions, a blue Star Wars lunchbox, two meatballs, a whole army of villains and varmints, and one just plain bad egg. Not to mention our heroes, eleven-year-old twins Nancy and Joe, raised in a circus, who must find the pieces of a Top-Secret Robot in order to rescue their parents before . . . tick, tick, tick!

A collaboration between the National Childrens Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congresss Center for the Book,The Exquisite Corpse Adventureoriginated as a national literacy project for young people and helped launch the Read.gov website.

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As gleefully entertaining as it is preposterously ludicrous...Go with the flow and enjoy the ride.
Publishers Weekly