Aaron Blabey’s Look Who’s Talking is the 18th Bad Guys book, a very silly comic-style adventure for 7 year olds where the grumpy little furball tagging along with Wolf finally opens her mouth.<\/p>\n
And wow, can she talk. Her name is Rhonda. She’s trillions of years old, she can glide through space and time, and she’s been watching Wolf for ages. He takes it about as calmly as you’d expect (lots of shouting and gargling).<\/p>\n
First, though, the book opens somewhere completely unexpected. There’s a funeral, some gangster headlines and a VERY mean wolf in sunglasses roaring off in a big car. Why that matters comes later.<\/p>\n
Most of the middle is Rhonda explaining. There’s a giant centipede, an old prophecy and the truth about the gang’s powers. The best bit is how she does it. “If your life was a series,” she keeps saying, before telling him which book each thing happened in.<\/p>\n
She even has a dig at anyone who thought the trip to the dinosaurs was random. If your reader has been with the gang for a while, this is probably the one where it all clicks.<\/p>\n
Then Rhonda leaves him alone in the middle of nowhere. Wolf has to walk whichever way feels the most bad, straight into the Nightmare Realm. Giant fins slice through the ground and an enormous pig boots him into the air. His plan to make it less scary? Skipping. It doesn’t work.<\/p>\n
An old friend is waiting there too, and he isn’t acting like himself. He wants Wolf to be the bad guy he was born to be. How Wolf answers is a big part of why this series is so lovable.<\/p>\n
On the page it’s classic Bad Guys. Big panels, speech bubbles, sound effects in huge capitals (SKREEE! SQUELCH!) and pages with only a word or two. A child reading alone can finish it in a sitting, although all that explaining might lose a newer reader.<\/p>\n
Worth knowing before you hand it over. It opens on a funeral for a gangster wolf who’s died of a heart attack. It’s brief, but it might feel close to home for a child who’s recently lost someone. The Nightmare Realm monsters are big and toothy too, though nobody gets more than a cartoon wallop. And it stops on a “To be continued” with nothing tied up.<\/p>\n
Rhonda’s tour of the earlier books won’t mean much to a newcomer. If your reader is only just meeting the gang, the first Bad Guys book is where Wolf talks his scary-looking friends into doing good deeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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