The templeton twins book6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve just finished writing the second Templeton Twins book, and it’s dawning on me that I am, apparently, interested in problem-solving. Agent: Paul Bresnick, Paul Bresnick Agency. By Ellis Weiner, for The Children’s Book Review Published: September 11, 2012. His debut book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, received the prestigious Bologna- Ragazzi Award, given annually at the Bolgona Children's Book Fair. ![]() Jeremy Holmes is director of his own design studio, Mutt Ink. ![]() Dean), and he’s at his funniest with the nonsensical “Questions for Review” that end each chapter (“How would the Templeton twins’ lives have been different had they never been born?”). The Templeton Twins are his first books for children. Weiner has an obvious fondness for wordplay (characters include Nanny Nan Noonan and the villainous Dean D. The story, which revolves around (of all things) intellectual property and picks up a third of the way in, follows the twins and their widowed inventor/professor father as he starts a job at the Tickeridge-Baltock Institute of Technology (aka Tick-Tock Tech) and has a run-in with a disgruntled former student. Although 12-year-old twins Abigail and John Templeton headline the story, the most prominent character is the self-satisfied and aggressively intrusive Narrator, whose banter with readers instantly sets a comedic, sarcastic tone (“If you are so terribly, terribly smart, why don’t you write this book? Just fill it in right here”) but also contributes to a slow start. This series kickoff takes a while to get going, and not just because it has three prologues and two Chapter Twos. ![]()
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