• click here to return to the homepage •
or 
Home > Categories > Books > Kids - General > Looniverse: Stranger Things review
Ed is a normal kid. But when he finds a strange coin, his life goes from beyond boring to beyond wacky.
Brothers become pool floats, bedtime stories turn into real-life headaches, and ice-cream pops zoom into the sky! What can Ed do to stop the strangeness?
The War of the Flowers
The Country Diary - Calligraphy
Space Gum
Stolen
Local Online Advertising for Dummies
The Littlest Angel - Lily Gets Her Wings
The Courts of the Feyre - 3 - Strangeness and Charm
The Moose and the Goose
Go Home Flash
Super Power Baby Project
Amulet #2: The Stonekeeper's Curse
Heromice #4: Perilous Plants
Partners in SlimeProduct reviews...
Review by: kiwiblondie (Michelle)
Dated: 3rd of October, 2013
I loved this book but then I'm usually considered strange so no wonder I thought the story was great. What happens when you find a strange coin with strange and stranger on each side. Imagine your dreams coming true? Imagine the words in a fairy tale coming to life. The pictures were good and rather funny.
Ed had to find The stranger but who could it be? Would the world be better if all strangeness disappeared from the world? Why are strange things happening to a very ordinary boy?
I didn't expect The Stranger to be who it was but if you think about it then it does make sense and I'm glad that Ed did decide to pass the coin on to The stranger and not let things become dull and boring and that he embraces the strangeness in the world.
I'm looking forward to reading Book 2 and see what else can happen in Looniverse.
Review by: mizim (Miriam)
Dated: 28th of August, 2013
This is a fun little book. A young boy called Ed is your average, run-of-the-mill kid who finds a strange coin on the ground one day. He decides to keep it and before he knows it strange things begin happening around him. However, the words on the coin begin to fade and Ed must find The Stranger to give the coin to otherwise there will never be any strangeness in the world ever again.
This is a great book, especially if you have a child who may be a bit wary of being 'strange' as it happily points out that without strangeness or strange things being thought up then people like Einstein wouldn't have done what they did and things such as movies, books and art wouldn't exist without that strangeness in the world.
This also uses a lot of imagination and my son loved that the things Ed's friends were imagining became real (I know my son would love some of his imaginings to become real). It's a fun book, and the illustrations, whilst in black and white, suit the book wonderfully as it is all about imagination and so I told my son to imagine what colours he things the drawings should be.
A fun book, and I have the second one here, so I'm looking forward to reading that one too.
Random listing from 'Books'...
Tom Tuatara cocked one beady eye,
peered at the skink, and let out a sigh.
'No one can beat you, is that what you think?
Are you really so confident, Sammy the Skink?'
A witty New Zealand retelling of The Tortoise and the Hare.
All trademarks, images and copyrights on this site are owned by their respective companies.
KIWIreviews is an independent entity, part of the Knock Out News Group. This is a free public forum presenting user opinions on selected products, and as such the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinion of kiwireviews.nz and are protected under New Zealand law by the "Honest Opinion" clause of the Defamation Act of 1992. KIWIreviews accepts no liability for statements made on this site, on the premise that they have been submitted as the true and honest opinions of the individual posters. In most cases, prices and dates stated are approximate and should be considered as only guidelines.
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
