The Beast and the Bethany
Jack Meggitt-Phillips · illustrert av Isabelle Follath
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Humor
| Medvirkende | Follath, Isabelle (illustr)
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| Utgitt | London : Simon & Schuster , 2021
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| Omfang | 256 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional cactus, Ebenezer gets potions that keep him young and beautiful, as well as other presents. But the beast grows ever greedier with each meal, and one day he announces that he'd like to eat a nice, juicy child next. Ebenezer has never done anything quite this terrible to hold onto his wonderful life. Still, he finds the absolutely snottiest, naughtiest, and most frankly unpleasant child he can and prepares to feed her to the beast. The child, Bethany, may just be more than Ebenezer bargained for. She's certainly a really rather rude houseguest, but Ebenezer still finds himself wishing she didn't have to be gobbled up after all. Could it be Bethany is less meal-worthy and more...friend-worthy?. - Den mest spennende barnbokdebutanten i 2020 og en potensiell moderne klassiker! Beistet og Bettina blander Roald Dahls makabre humor med varmen og sjarmen til Grusomme meg. Ebenezer Tweezer er en ungdommelig 511-åring. Han har et beist på loftet, som han mater med all slags saker (blant annet sirkusapekatter, katten sin og en kaktus i ny og ne) og til gjengjeld spyr beistet ut gaver til Ebenezer, også et brygg som gjør at han aldri blir eldre. Men beistet blir stadig mer grådig og snart vil han kun smake et deilig, saftig barn. Så da Ebenezer møter på den foreldreløse jenta Bettina, ser det ut som hans (evige) liv vil fortsette. Men Bettina er langt ifra en normal foreldreløs jente ...
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| ISBN | 9781534478909
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