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by David Baldacci David Baldacci, a bestselling adult suspense novelist, has decided to bring a story he made up for his kids into print for everyone. Freddy and the French Fries is the first in a planned series about a kid who invents giant living French fries using a special kind of potato, assorted nanotechnology, and a Frankenstein-esque lightning bolt. The fries go on to almost ruin his life, but then things get better. Right, it's silly. Baldacci is clearly going for the kind of out-of-this-world antic silliness of Pilkey's Captain Underpants or Sczieska's Time Warp Trio. Personally, I like silliness and I suspect that once Baldacci gets a handle on how this kind of thing works, he's going to do some really funny books. Right now, there seems to be nowhere he won't go in search of a one-liner and sometimes these side trips slog down the plot a bit. This book doesn't have the cohesiveness that glues together the wild silliness in a book by Pilkey, Sczieska or Pinkwater, but it does have quite a few things to interest a boy reader: an obnoxious big sister who usually loses in showdowns with the main character; a super obnoxious bully who deserves his come-uppance (in spades); and lots of action. If you have a voracious male reader in your home and he's chewed his way through all the zany boy favorites, he'll find Freddy and the French Fries a nice snack to tide him over. |
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Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive!