Chomp
by Carl Hiaasen
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Critic Rating
64%
Critic Reviews: 17
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74%
Reader Ratings: 323
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Synopsis
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one. When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself-to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot... more
About Carl Hiaasen
Published: March 27, 2012 by Random House
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Nature & Wildlife, Current Affairs. Non-fiction. 304 pages
- All Critics: 17
- Positive: 12
- Negative: 5
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Kidz World | 20 Apr 2012
It’s definitely not the best kids book by author Carl Hiaasen, but it offers a solid adventure.
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Star-Telegram | 18 Apr 2012
But Hiaasen has a way of making even his young-reader books appeal to a much wider age range, perhaps because he has toiled in the mass-market newspapering world of The Miami Herald for more than 30 years.
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Warren County Living
Be assured that Carl Hiaasen always delivers an exciting, fast-paced story full of great characters and a unique sense of place.
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Los Angeles Times | 18 Mar 2012
"Chomp" is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
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Pure Textuality | 26 Mar 2012
I get that Carl’s books are meant to be quirky, but Chomp was a bit TOO quirky for me.
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Buried Under Books
Carl Hiaasen never fails to be entertaining and Chomp is no exception.
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Criminal Element | 6 Mar 2012
Hiaasen’s journalistic background left its mark on the story, too, in that I almost believed the characters and the world he’d created were real.
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The Washington Post | 29 Mar 2012
They also carry important environmental lessons for kids.
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The Musings of a Book Addict | 13 Mar 2012
I can’t wait to put this on my shelf at school.
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Hipsqueak | 26 Mar 2012
The real satisfaction, however, is not so much in the book’s humor but in its truth.
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The Bookbag
Satire is a powerful weapon in the hands of an expert, and you're more likely to laugh out loud than cry during this book, because the situations the characters get themselves into are so utterly off-the-wall.
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Mal Warwick's Blog on Books | 6 Apr 2012
Still, the book was amusing, the characters rooted in a true if cockeyed version of reality, and the plot was rich.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Dec 2011
Humorous adventure tales just don’t get any more wacked…or fun to read than this.
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Publishers Weekly | 9 Jan 2012
Not as tightly constructed as Hoot and tamer than Flush, but still pretty hilarious.
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The Guardian | 9 May 2012
The book feels as if Carl Hiaasen has got really excited and written the whole thing in one night. It's a bit patronising...
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