Compton Valance - The Time-travelling Sandwich Bites Back

Description

Compton Valance has an incredible secret: he can travel through time using a stinky sandwich. How to get into the BIGGEST PICKLE ever.1. Create a TIME MACHINE SANDWICH.2. Accidentally let your evil older brother steal the sandwich and travel through time CHANGING ALL OF HISTORY.3. Set out to STEAL BACK the sandwich with the help of a secret agent FROM THE FUTURE.4. Save the world from TOTAL DESTRUCTION... (Probably.)

Matt Brown holds degrees in Chemistry (BSc) and Biomolecular Science (MRes). He has served as a scientific editor and writer at both Reed Elsevier and Nature Publishing Group, and has contributed to several previous science books, including Defining Moments in Science (2008, Cassell) and 1001 Inventions That Changed the World (2009, Cassell). He served as the Royal Institution's quiz-master for several years, and has also put on science quizzes for the Royal Society, Manchester Science Museum, STEMPRA and the Hunterian Museum. He recently gave a lecture about Michael Faraday while rotating around the London Eye. With comedian Helen Keen, he co-hosted a series of successful 'Spacetacular!' science-themed stage shows, culminating in a sell-out 2013 show at Leicester Square Theatre. Matt is also the author of London Day and Night (2015, Batsford), as well as forthcoming books Everything You Know About London is Wrong and Everything You Know About England is Wrong (also from Batsford). He also serves as Editor-at-Large of Londonist.com.

This second book in the series is just as mad and funny as the first... Large print and lots of illustrations aid newly developing or reluctant readers, but it's great fun for all ages and abilities. * Primary Times * A second hilarious and disgusting adventure wittily told in words and pictures making it perfect for all fans of the Wimpy Kid series. * Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids * Fans of Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be delighted by The Time Travelling Sandwich Bites Back. * The Oldie * Fantastically funny and delightfully disgusting time-travel fiction with hilarious black-and-white illustrations by Lizzie Finlay. * Lovereading4kids * Fantastically funny and delightfully disgusting. * Lovereading4kids * If you haven't come across Compton Valance before and you're a fan of Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants and their ilk, this is a new hero to get stuck into. * Manchester Evening News * Just as funny and just as full of crazy time travel adventure as its predecessor. * Book Zone for Boys * Lizzie Finlay's suitably madcap illustrations, a dazzling array of narrative styles, hilarious schoolboy humour and amazing plot twists make this a journey of blissful discovery for bored youngsters with a well-developed sense of mischief! Stomach-churning for mums, fun for dads... and heaven for little boys! * Lancashire Evening Post * This made me laugh and laugh. * STEW Magazine * Wonderfully designed with every page offering an explosion of illustrations, these books have a style all of their own! * Sunday World Ireland *