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category: Children's Fiction
published: Feb 2016
ISBN:9781459808133
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Battling Bots

by Liam O'Donnell, illustrated by Mike Deas

tagged: fantasy & magic, mystery & detective, monsters
About the Authors

Liam O'Donnell is an author and educator who has created over forty books and graphic novels for young readers, including the Max Finder Mystery, Graphic Guide Adventure and West Meadows Detectives series. He was born in Northern Ireland and came to Canada when he was five years old. He studied media at Ryerson University and has worked on film sets in Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Liam lives in London, Ontario.


MIKE DEAS est auteur-illustrateur de bandes dessinées. Il signe aussi les illustrations de la série Biographie en images. Sa passion pour l'illustration a été entretenue tout au long de son enfance à l'île Saltspring, en Colombie-Britannique où il habite encore aujourd'hui.

MIKE DEAS is the illustrator of the Sueño Bay Adventures series, the Graphic Guide Adventure series and the Tank and Fizz books, as well as the titles in the Scholastic Canada Biography series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Visit him online at www.deasillustration.com.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
9 to 12
Grade:
4 to 7
Reading age:
9 to 12
Awards
  • , Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award
  • Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens
Editorial Reviews

"What can a trio of fourth-graders do, opposed by corrupt officials, a bully with a pair of hulking hench-ogres, and a local business tycoon with—as it turns out—a high-tech hand-held demon controller? Well, plenty, though not without a few missteps, help from a surprising temporary ally, and lots of climactic bot-smashing. In a slick mix of narrative blocks and panels of nonscary monsters delivering punch lines in dialogue balloons, the exploit careens along to a triumphant close. High-energy high jinks in a multicultural, or at least multispecies, setting."

— Kirkus Reviews

"This book provides lots of excitement and is an easy read...Readers will enjoy the graphics and the exciting pace of the story...Recommended."

— School Library Connection

"The world of goblins, trolls and other monsters has many similarities to our world and the concept of allegory is beautifully depicted."

— Resource Links

"The book seamlessly moves from text to illustrated panels...The pace is swift...[readers] will careen along as gleefully as Tank and Fizz themselves, rejoicing when all ends well...A perfect mix of monstrous and silly."

— The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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