I’ll definitely be picking up the next installment.I read this because i came across an excerpt that made it sound really fun. I hope this series (yes, of course it’s going to be a series) turns out to be quite popular. If I were still working in an elementary school, this would almost certainly be one of my choices for a fourth or fifth grade class this fall.Īnd the illustrations just add to the general fun of this book.

The Templeton Twins would be SUCH a fun book to read aloud. You do your job, which is reading, and I’ll do mine, which is narrating. Please, kindly stop asking me all these questions. How is this possible? How can hobbies be so important? How can a dog be ridiculous? The questions then are 1) “Did you Enjoy the Prologue” and 2) “Do you think it makes the slightest bit of difference to me whether you did or not?” In the Prologue, for instance, the entire prologue is simply a large “The End” printed across the pages. I probably would have highlighted half the book, except that early on, Ella caught me marking a funny line and then proceeded to BEG to “write in mama’s book.” So, I guess I won’t be highlighting much anymore.Įach chapter of The Templeton Twins ends with a “questions for review” section, with each question delighting me more.

The plot moves right along, but it’s really the narrator that carries this story. When the professor (predictably) refuses, the student and his own twin, kidnap the young twins in order to blackmail the professor.įortunately, John and Abigail are both smart and resourceful and things don’t go quite as smoothly as the kidnapping twins might have hoped. Their inventor/professor father is so heartbroken, that they move to a new town for him to take a new job, but at the new university, he’s confronted by a former student who claims that the professor’s big invention (a personal helicopter/backpack contraption) was his idea and demands that he turn over the entire project. This story follows thirteen-year-old twins, John and Abigail, who have recently lost their mother. the templeton twins have an idea by ellis weiner and jeremy homes And also, unlike a couple of other books I’ve read in the past couple of years, it didn’t feel like a knock-off of A Series of Unfortunate Events. It has a narrator with some serious personality – in that respect it reminded me a bit of A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I found this one much funnier and more light-hearted. I hadn’t even finished the Prologue before I knew I would love The Templeton Twins Have an Idea.

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