Tourist Trap [Hardcover]

Charles Ogden (Author), Rick Carton (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582461368
• ISBN-13: 978-1582461366
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Delightful Romp, June 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Tourist Trap (Edgar & Ellen) (Hardcover)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars turist trap, October 11, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Tourist Trap (Edgar & Ellen) (Hardcover)

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!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Edgar and Ellen Tourist Trap, February 8, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Tourist Trap (Edgar & Ellen) (Hardcover)

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.