Art Preview! Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies

A Sneak Peak at the art of ATTACK OF THE FLUFFY BUNNIES

(even though Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies is in-stores as of Mid-May)

Illustrated by
Dan Santat


Story by Andrea Beaty

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Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies

Authors: By Andrea Beaty

Imprint: Amulet Books

ISBN: 0-8109-8416-4

EAN: 9780810984165

Availability: In Stock

Publishing Date: 5/1/2010

Trim Size: 5 1/4 x 7 1/2

Page Count: 192

Cover: Hardcover

Illustrations: 15-20 B&W illustrations

About the book

When Joules and Kevin Rockman’s parents drop them off at Camp Whatsitooya on their way to an International Spamathon, the twins expect a summer of marshmallows, campfires, and canoe trips. What they do not expect is to defend the earth from an invasion of sugar-addicted, murderous, seven-foot-tall rabbits from another galaxy. Happily, the Rockman twins, veteran watchers of the Late, Late, Late Creepy Show for Insomniacs, are unusually well-prepared for dealing with monstrous beings from outer space. If only their fellow campers were so lucky.
Andrea Beaty, author of several very funny picture books and a mysterious novel, here reaches new heights of hilarity and verbal dexterity in a novel sure to become a camp—ba-dum-dum—classic.

About the author

Andrea Beaty was raised in a small southern Illinois town, where her family ran a tiny grocery store. When she wasn’t roaming the nearby fields with her brothers and sisters, she was reading Nancy Drew mysteries up in the branches of a maple tree. Andrea now lives outside Chicago with her family. She is the author of When Giants Come to Play, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, and Iggy Peck, Architect, illustrated by David Roberts. Andrea blogs about funny books for kids at www.ThreeSillyChicks.com. Learn more about her at www.AndreaBeaty.com. Dan Santat’s Guild of Geniuses (2004) won the Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award for best debut author/illustrator. He has since illustrated The Secret Life of Walter Kitty, by Barbara Jean Hicks; the Otto Undercover series, by Rhea Perlman; The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch, by Anne Isaacs; and Chicken Dance, by Tammi Sauer. He is also the creator of the Disney animated series The Replacements, and is at work on a graphic novel, The Domesticated Four. He lives with his wife and two children in Southern California. Visit him at www.dantat.com.

The Big Splash— Interiors

Most book interiors either Adult or Young Adult are not always designed by the same designer as the jacket. This is mainly a function of managing the huge work load of a list. (I think) Luckily I have been fortunate enough never to fall into just doing one or the other. I think I would get bored. As a designer I want to control the whole project, ( this is not a comment on my personality, I swear) to make sure it has one voice. As a consumer when a book is designed by one person there is a wholeness and vision that I appreciate. I feel cheated some how when the jacket and interior don't match in design. Like someone is telling you a story and the half way through they change the main characters name from Mary to Steve. ( Just trust me that's what its' like ) I know there are bigger things to worry about in life. Like, what's for dinner? Is that the cat making that noise? How old is this milk? But I don't really have anything else to worry about at the moment. Here is an example of an interior linking up with the jacket design to create beautiful jacket and interior love. (The Big Splash, Fall 2008)

Kirkus Reviews – August 1 Issue


THE BIG SPLASH

Welcome to Franklin Middle School, where a junior gang of petty thieves and mobsters shakes kids down and humiliates them with water guns. Seventh-grader Matt Stevens, the class detective, is hired by fellow middle-schooler Vinny Biggs (something of a pint-sized Godfather) to recover a lost trinket from Nikki “Fingers,” one of the fastest shots in school. Nikki has decided to go straight because her younger sister has entered the school. This knock-off noir kicks in when Nikki, about to hand over the charm to Matt, is “taken out”—soaked in a place to make it look like she’s had an accident. This humiliation, a highly visible and common practice, immediately turns victims into social outcasts. Matt’s detective instincts tell him that Vinny may have set him up, and he sets out to learn who was really behind this act. Matt Stevens may turn out to be a bankable franchise: His first-person present-tense narration carries in it echoes of Marlowe, and the simple plot makes some crafty twists and turns as it goes along. (Fiction. 9-11)