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Categories: Science fiction Fantasy Mystery Romance Business Classic Sports Young adult Humor Memoirs See all categories... |
The adorable narrator of this book is 9 year old Dylan from Wales. He's the ONLY boy in the small town of Manod so he has no one to play soccer with...a real bummer in a young English boy's life. It starts out slow, but don't give up, you will be richly rewarded. I read a LOT of this book out loud to my husband because it is laugh out loud hilarious! We don't have this in our library yet but we have his first book "MILLIONS" & it's my favorite of the two, but only by a hair. It was turned into a delightful English movie. Very quirky, my favorite kind! (The author was a famous screenwriter before he started his hand at children's books, MILLIONS being his debut. So, of course, he wrote the screenplay for the movie, and it shows!) "You've probably never heard of Vincenzo Perugia..." Dylan tells us that he stole the Mona Lisa and it was the perfect crime. "He didn't try to sell it. He didn't steal any other paintings. He didn't want to be famous or rich. He just wanted the Mona Lisa. And that's where he went right. That's why it was the perfect crime. Because he didn't want anything else. And that's where we went wrong. We wanted something." I hope a movie of FRAMED is planned. The family is strapped for money so his sister, obsessed with master criminals and crimes, thinks it's time for a perfect crime of their own. The minor characters are a riot. My favorite being Daft Tom, an older person (you get the idea he's in his 20's or 30's??) still obsessed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "what the shell" is heard throughout the book. Surprisingly I found out that the author incoporates all real art, artists, and criminals. Lovely!
