- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books; First Edition Thus edition (4 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385600801
- ISBN-13: 978-0385600804
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.7 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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From a computer game in which the aliens want Johnny to negotiate a peace treaty for them, to the inhabitants of a cemetery who are just discovering how much fun being alive can be, to the time of the Blitz, join Johnny Maxwell and his friends in these three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND - Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. JOHNNY AND THE DEAD - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; A Writers' Guild Award Winner; Also televised by LWT for ITV. JOHNNY AND THE BOMB - Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal; Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award; Smarties Prize Silver Medal Winner.
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The Johnny Maxwell trilogy
ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND Hey, If not you, who else? But what can twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell do when he's all set to blow the aliens in his computer game into the usual million pieces - and they surrender? They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?
JOHNNY AND THE DEAD Johnny's got bad news for the dead in his local cemetery: the council want to sell the land as a building site. Well, the dead aren't going to take that lying down. They're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. And it's Halloween tomorrow...
JOHNNY AND THE BOMB Mrs Tachyon is just a nutty old bag lady, isn't she? No. Somehow, with her bunch of dubious black bags, she holds the key to different times, different eras - including the Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place Johnny thought it was as he finds himself bound up more and more with then...
Three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy, Terry Pratchett, author of the bestselling Bromeliad trilogy and the hugely successful Discworld series.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Each book captures part of normal everyday life. Sometimes times a very funny view, or a quite serious subject. Issues not normally talked about for younger readers are broached in these books. The books are also have underlying moral issues, which are turned over and questioned in a considerate and often humorous way. Somehow Pratchett engages the reader in a crazy mirror of life, taken to extremes, but in a beliveable way. The characters are built upon in each book, like a girl who is competion mad, but misses the human point of view of Johnny. This book made me laugh out loud, and you can see a link with styles that are picked up in the Disc World books. These stories are more in line with reality than the disc world series. Johnny is someone special who the reader could well imagine being! A great read. Some of the storylines are real history based,which I lived through. When my daughter read them she asked about them, for instance space invaders and the gulf war. One way for generations to communicate!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I bought this trilogy for my new Kindle, while waiting for SNUFF to come out.
I have read all of Terry's adult Discworld books and have now started delving into his childrens' books.
This trilogy is not about Discworld but very entertaining and enjoyable, probably more so than his junior Discworld books, "The Amazing Maurice...." being the exception.
I have read all of Terry's adult Discworld books and have now started delving into his childrens' books.
This trilogy is not about Discworld but very entertaining and enjoyable, probably more so than his junior Discworld books, "The Amazing Maurice...." being the exception.
Format:Kindle Edition
Brilliant books with such different storylines in each. Based on the "real world" rather than the Discworld getting to know Johnny and his friends is fun and fascinating, everyone comes to love Mrs Tachyon, everyone KNOWS a Mrs Tachyon somewhere in their life. I've read these, my kids read these, I recommend them and buy them for young friends and grown up friends, my dad has read them and enjoyed them too and he's 95! They make you laugh, they keep you turning the pages following plots that have you hooked to the very last page, they have sad bits and strange bits - they are all Terry Pratchett at his best (as always) Read them all before now getting them for my Kindle so I can read them all again.
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only you can save mankind
my favourite book out of all three i liked kirsty and i think johnny fancys her they should make a film of it!!!
Published 16 months ago
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