Herbert's Wormhole

Wombly and I read this on the Nook we got for Christmas :)

Book Details:

• Written by Peter Nelson
• Illustrated by Rohitash Rao                           (for Down Unders: be aware that this illustrator doesn't just do drawings for Down Unders, so you may want to stick to the book website, link found below, for more info on the illustrator.)
• Published by Harper Collins
• (who was the publishing company that published A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Important things to know:

• Alex is obsessed with video games. The kind where he gets to slay aliens.
• His mom and dad set up a play date with him and the nerdy next door neighbor Herbert.
• A time/space portal opens in Alex's backyard
• Wacky time adventures ensue.

Wombly and I liked this book because:

• It was a lot of fun
• The sense of place was very clear - Wombly and I felt like we had lived in the world while we were reading the book
• The characters were fantastic
• The main character Alex is kind of a jerk ~ but he's a fun character because there's a lot of room for growth in imperfect characters
• Wombly loved how Herbert is so incredibly over-the-top nerdy
• I love Sammi ~ I love strong female characters
• I loved the scene where Alex loses his memories of video games.
• Wombly loved how Nelson played with the time traveling into the future thing - - I don't want to give away details, but Wombly and I enjoyed the old man they meet in the future.

I read this because:

• I read the Time Warp Trio.

(Random Fact: the first three books in the Time Warp series was re-published by HarperCollins in 2006/2007; the same publisher that published Herbert's Wormhole)

Check out the book's website!