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Tourist Trap (Edgar & Ellen) | 
| Author: Charles Ogden
Creator: Rick Carton
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 152050
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1416914110
EAN: 9781416914112
ASIN: 1416914110
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
The scheming, spiteful little antiheroes of Rare Beasts--terrible twins Edgar and Ellen, a sort of Pugsley and Wednesday Addams duo--return for a second book in Charles Ogden's goth-themed, tongue-in-cheek series. Tourist Trap begins as Edgar and Ellen revel in their gloriously sinister home and the nearby "Gadget Graveyard," ripe with possibilities for misanthropic mischief. But the twins' beloved junkyard--and even their towering, mansion home--might be threatened by the pretentious plans of pompous Mayor Knightleigh, who hopes to get the town of Nod's Limbs on the National Registry of Historic Treasures. Edgar and Ellen, of course, immediately set out to thwart the mayor's plans by sabotaging a visiting tour of VIPs with monster attacks, insect sandwiches, and even a devilishly clever scheme involving the biggest piece of French toast in the universe. The fun format--forty-four short chapters, interspersed with Rick Carton's creepily cool pen-and-ink illustrations--makes for a quick read, and while the while the book never quite reaches Lemony Snicket levels of genius, kids will still love the many jokes and the twins' escalating, Grinch-style meanness (which, thankfully, never gets too mean). Watch for a third installment, Under Town. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
Product Description
Where tourists are the toast of the town.The Nod's Limbs Junkyard -- also known as the Gadget Graveyard -- is where Edgar and Ellen scavenge essential parts for their nefarious plots. So when Mayor Knightleigh announces plans to build a luxury hotel on the site, the twins spring into action. The mayor has invited a group of celebrities to Nod's Limbs for the first annual French Toast Festival, but the twins are concocting a scheme to send potential tourists screaming in the opposite direction. Can Edgar and Ellen get sweet revenge and save the Gadget Graveyard?
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 turist trap October 12, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really good book. It was pretty funny because they do some weird stuff. Plus there are some awkward characters. This book can get pretty boring, but there is a huge twist in the book. I can relate to the characters and the stuff they do.
I do recommend this book. I'm not a big book reader, but I actually read this book. So if I liked it anyone else who reads it I bet will like it, too. It's cool that the two kids, Edgar and Ellen, know how to play lots of funny pranks and know how to take care of themselves. It's exciting to see what they're going to next. I highly recommend you read this book!
 Edgar and Ellen Tourist Trap February 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Has anything weird ever happened to you? Well, in Nod's Limbs weird things happen all the time because of the twins named Edgar and Ellen. The title of this book is Edgar and Ellen Tourist Trap, the genre is fiction and the author is Charles Ogden.
This book is about twins that live in a mansion alone because their parents left them there. The twins are pranksters and have a graveyard/dump next to their house that they call Gadget Graveyard because they get most of their things they use for pranks there. The mayor wants to destroy Gadget Graveyard to create a hotel. To do so he must invite celebrates and famous news reporters to Nod's Limbs to give them a tour of the town so that they will give their town a good review and tourist will come. When Edgar and Ellen find out Gadget Graveyard is in trouble they become the tour guides and then very terrible and gross things happen.
The twins are some very interesting characters. The twins always are causing trouble and confusion. I like the twins because of all the things they do like when they let Berenice their Venus fly trap bite there feet and when Edgar throws crab apples at the celebrates.
I like this book because it is very funny. I like when the celebrates ate the sandwiches that were filled with bugs and Edgar said "Compliments of Berenice's lunch pail." I think it was also funny when the twins said "Oh they rather like the escapees." I thought that was hilarious. At times this book is boring but then a surprise comes right around the corner. I am very pleased with this book.
Great sense of surreal January 31, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first became interested in Edgar and Ellen after clicking a link to their site- I had first heard of them only by the minicartoons that I saw on TV. Anyway, this was the first E&E book I read because I couldn't find Rare Beasts at the store. Well, let me say first of all, if you are a down to earth, no-nonsense, everything must be real type preson, you might find these stories to be a bit childish. But, if you can hack through the disgusting mental shell that people force so carelessly over the minds of people, you can truly enjoy this story. I found myself cheering for the anti-heros even as they pranked their own town, and despising anyone who got in their way.
The storyline is like this:
-The twins find a plot that the mayor wants to take their junk yard and make it into a hotel, but they love the junkyard and the carnivorous plant in it.
-They decide to find all the high-class tourists and take them on a town tour that makes Nod's Limbs look horrible.
-I won't tell you if they succeed.
It only took a few hours to read the whole book, but I really enjoyed it, especially the twin's pet furball- Pet- and their creepy, mysterious caretaker. Four stars because I found some of the events just a bit too... they were farther out than the rest of the story. Still, it was a great book.
great book March 1, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is a great book, funny, hilarious, and great for kids. Very imaginative. I loved reading it.
Three Cheers for ''Tourist Trap''!!! June 15, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
In this second addition of the edgar & ellen series the book starts out with how the delightful little town of Nod's Limbs had been erected. Then it talks about edgar and ellen, two mischievious twelve-year-old twins, who live in a tall mansion next to the gadget graveyard, a graveyard and junkyard combined.
But the pompous mayor has plans to change the twins' gadget graveyard into a hotel! He also arranged VIPs to visit and make Nod's Limbs a tourist atraction.
So Edgar and Ellen act as tour guides but instead bring the VIPs on a tour of insanity that will make tourists stay away forever!I liked the story of this book better than the first. Also, in this book it gave me a very good discription of the picturesque town of Nod's Limbs and all of the goody-goody residents. Charles Ogden writes very interesting Lemony Snicket-oriented stories, except with the children being the predators. Rick Carton also makes great drawings that are dark and somwhat like the addams family.
Another thing a liked better about this book aside from the first was that edgar and ellen succeeded in their evil plot.
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