Lizard Music
Descriere
By the author of The Big Orange Splot, The Neddiad, and Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered GirlThings Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news.And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat). The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own.
Despre autor
Daniel Manus Pinkwater este un autor american de cărți pentru copii și literatură pentru tineri. Printre cărțile sale se numără Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel și cartea ilustrată The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater a scris și un roman pentru adulți, The Afterlife Diet (1995), precum și colecții de eseuri derivate din emisiunile sale la National Public Radio.
