Wed Wabbit is a tour de force! Lissa Evans’s hilarious, madcap adventure is both effervescent and tautly plotted making it impossible to put down. When Fidge furiously kicks her little sister’s beloved soft toy, the Wed Wabbit, into the road she unleashes an imaginary caper that sends her and her spoilt cousin Graham into the world of the ridiculous Wimbley Woos, blobby characters of different colours who only speak in rhyming couplets. But are they so ridiculous? By the end of their adventure, and with the help of the wonderful cast of ludicrous characters including a plastic carrot, both Fidge and Graham have been changed. Lissa Evans’s comic timing and her control of her richly imagined world is perfect.
You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation - the whole, entire thing - is your fault. Wed Wabbit is an adventure story about friendship, danger and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it's funny. It's seriously funny.
'A future classic - really, really funny' - Nina Stibb
'Inventive, funny and not a word out of place.' Charlotte Eyre, The Bookseller
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‘A book full of warmth, sharp humour and clever puzzles’ Patrick Ness
‘A miniature version of Susanna Clarke’s grown-up bestseller, Jonathan Strange? & Mr Norrell’ Independent
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About Lissa Evans
LissaEvansstillrememberscrackingherfirstjoke,age7.Itinvolvedahippo.(We’llsaynomore.)Butthecomedybugwasbornand,followingamedicinedegree,LissachangedcareerstobecomeacomedyproducerforradioandTV.Eventually,afteradecadeofrunningaredpencilthroughotherpeople’swork,Lissabegantowritesomethingofherown.This is Lissa Evans' third book for children. Her first, Small Change for Stuart (published in the USA as Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms), was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Children’s Book Award. She has also written books for adults. She has two teenage daughters, and lives in London.
