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Tourist Trap (Edgar & Ellen)

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Even better than the first adventure, Tourist Trap proves another delightful romp for kids and kids-at-heart alike. Ogden gives us a refreshing duo who get to do all the naughty things we only dream about! Great fun with wonderful turns of phrase and vocabulary.

This is a really good book. It was pretty funny because they do some weird stuff. Plus there are some awkward characters. This book can get pretty boring, but there is a huge twist in the book. I can relate to the characters and the stuff they do.
I do recommend this book. I'm not a big book reader, but I actually read this book. So if I liked it anyone else who reads it I bet will like it, too. It's cool that the two kids, Edgar and Ellen, know how to play lots of funny pranks and know how to take care of themselves. It's exciting to see what they're going to next. I highly recommend you read this book!

Has anything weird ever happened to you? Well, in Nod's Limbs weird things happen all the time because of the twins named Edgar and Ellen. The title of this book is Edgar and Ellen Tourist Trap, the genre is fiction and the author is Charles Ogden.
This book is about twins that live in a mansion alone because their parents left them there. The twins are pranksters and have a graveyard/dump next to their house that they call Gadget Graveyard because they get most of their things they use for pranks there. The mayor wants to destroy Gadget Graveyard to create a hotel. To do so he must invite celebrates and famous news reporters to Nod's Limbs to give them a tour of the town so that they will give their town a good review and tourist will come. When Edgar and Ellen find out Gadget Graveyard is in trouble they become the tour guides and then very terrible and gross things happen.
The twins are some very interesting characters. The twins always are causing trouble and confusion. I like the twins because of all the things they do like when they let Berenice their Venus fly trap bite there feet and when Edgar throws crab apples at the celebrates.
I like this book because it is very funny. I like when the celebrates ate the sandwiches that were filled with bugs and Edgar said "Compliments of Berenice's lunch pail." I think it was also funny when the twins said "Oh they rather like the escapees." I thought that was hilarious. At times this book is boring but then a surprise comes right around the corner. I am very pleased with this book.

It is a great book, funny, hilarious, and great for kids. Very imaginative. I loved reading it.

In this second addition of the edgar & ellen series the book starts out with how the delightful little town of Nod's Limbs had been erected. Then it talks about edgar and ellen, two mischievious twelve-year-old twins, who live in a tall mansion next to the gadget graveyard, a graveyard and junkyard combined.
But the pompous mayor has plans to change the twins' gadget graveyard into a hotel! He also arranged VIPs to visit and make Nod's Limbs a tourist atraction.
So Edgar and Ellen act as tour guides but instead bring the VIPs on a tour of insanity that will make tourists stay away forever!

I liked the story of this book better than the first. Also, in this book it gave me a very good discription of the picturesque town of Nod's Limbs and all of the goody-goody residents. Charles Ogden writes very interesting Lemony Snicket-oriented stories, except with the children being the predators. Rick Carton also makes great drawings that are dark and somwhat like the addams family.
Another thing a liked better about this book aside from the first was that edgar and ellen succeeded in their evil plot.

I first became interested in Edgar and Ellen after clicking a link to their site- I had first heard of them only by the minicartoons that I saw on TV. Anyway, this was the first E&E book I read because I couldn't find Rare Beasts at the store. Well, let me say first of all, if you are a down to earth, no-nonsense, everything must be real type preson, you might find these stories to be a bit childish. But, if you can hack through the disgusting mental shell that people force so carelessly over the minds of people, you can truly enjoy this story. I found myself cheering for the anti-heros even as they pranked their own town, and despising anyone who got in their way.
The storyline is like this:
-The twins find a plot that the mayor wants to take their junk yard and make it into a hotel, but they love the junkyard and the carnivorous plant in it.
-They decide to find all the high-class tourists and take them on a town tour that makes Nod's Limbs look horrible.
-I won't tell you if they succeed.
It only took a few hours to read the whole book, but I really enjoyed it, especially the twin's pet furball- Pet- and their creepy, mysterious caretaker. Four stars because I found some of the events just a bit too... they were farther out than the rest of the story. Still, it was a great book.

... I have a bit of a problem with the treatment of Pet. I can allow Ellen's lust for revenge against a prim and prissy Stephanie--after all, children are vicious, sometimes, to each other, and I felt it was clear that this ongoing battle between the two girls was clearly depicted as such; in fact, Edgar and Ellen are also well-explained as deviant mentalities. But to have the two of them mistreat an animal (of whatever sort it is) seems to promote such treatment of animals as fun, or cool, somehow. I found that disturbing.
The characters are one-dimensional, but after all, this is what it is--a tale of two evil imps on yet another crusade to destroy something they feel is in their megalomaniacal way.
I think a parent could do better in choosing summer reading for his/her child.