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Wendel's Workshop - Chris Riddell

 
Description: ISBN 0230017800 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: Chris Riddell / Hardcover / 32 Pages / Book is published 2007-10-05 by Macmillan ... more
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Newest Review: ... shredding umbrellas and reducing machinery to bolts & raw materials, and eventually lays his eyes on Wendel himself... ... more

 ... Having escaped to the scrap heap, Wendel enrols Clunk's help and produces a small army of robots to reclaim his workshop and overpower Wendelbot. It's a wonderful little book. As other creations of Chris Riddell, Wendel's Workshop has exuberant, perfectly flowing graphics, slightly surreal, extremely engaging, with humour and heaps of expression. The machines and robots Wendel creates are a joy to explore: reminding me of Little Robots & Max Ernst, Maurice Sendak & Ernst Gombrich and probably many ...more

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Premium Review Wendel's Workshop - Chris Riddell: Not TOO Tidy (388 words)
by - written on 23/09/09 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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Wendel is a mouse and an inventor/engineer. He lives in a workshop and invents (i.e. builds) things all the time. If something doesn't work, he just chucks it down the chute and it ends up on a gigantic scrap heap outside. One day Wendel decides that it's time to tidy and makes a robot called Clunk to help him. However, Clunk is somehow hapless and thus ends up on a scrap heap while Wendel creates a super-tidying robot named Wendelbot. Wendelbot works indeed, in fact he tidies everything perfectly, including shredding umbrellas and reducing machinery to bolts & raw materials, and eventually lays his eyes on Wendel himself... Having escaped to ...  Read the complete review

 

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