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Charlie Higson is an acclaimed comedy writer, producer, and actor.
Higson is the author of the adult thrillers Full Whack and King of the Ants. He is also the author of the internationally best-selling Young Bond series which include the titles: SilverFin, Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold and By Royal Command.
Charlie is writing a new series of zombie books for children. Book 1 is The Enemy and Book 2 is The Dead.
Charlie Higson lives in London.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 6-9--Young James Bond is ready to enjoy a few days of rest from his studies at Eton, but his weekend plans are changed when one of his professors is kidnapped and the only link to finding him is an unusual letter filled with secret codes and anagrams detailing an evil threat to the world's security. Seven cryptic clues in the letter lead James and his friends through a series of deadly adventures. Charlie Higson's novel (Hyperion, 2008) is fast-paced and crammed with mystery, intrigue, car chases, high-tech gadgetry, an eclectic group of thugs, and a girl. Narrator Nathaniel Parker is extremely proficient in his ability to slip effortlessly between an array of dialects, nasal whines, stuttering, and many foreign accents. This stand-alone tale of adventure, humor, and hold-your-breathe suspense is a must-have, especially for young male listeners.--Cheryl Preisendorfer, Twinsburg City Schools, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
When one of the schoolmasters at Eton is kidnapped, teenage James Bond is hard-pressed to solve an encoded letter revealing the teacher's whereabouts. A combination of clever puzzle-sleuthing and extreme James Bond-style physical danger keeps the pace roaring as Bond tangles with a pair of murderous thugs who have forced the teacher to construct a dangerous Nemesis machine. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
New York Review of Books Review
The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga once again puts its heroine, Bella Swan, in overwhelming danger. But there's a bigger risk: what happens when the main characters of an epic romance get everything they want? Marriage to Edward, Bella's vampire, was a dead certainty in Book 3, so the threat to their bliss turns out to be creepy and unexpected: someone she may love more, who could kill her and bring down condemnation from the deadly Volturi clan. Over 754 pages, the answers come almost too easily, but not quickly. THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8 A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West. By Sid Fleischman. Greenwillow/HarperCollins. $18.99. (Ages 9 to 12) Fleischman's illustrated biography skips along hitting the high points of Twain's life - especially his celebrated career as a Mississippi riverboat pilot, which ended with the Civil War - while fleshing out less well-known episodes, often in the writer's own words. Of course where fact ends and fiction begins is not always clear - as Twain is quoted here, "A lie well told is immortal." NEWES FROM THE DEAD By Mary Hooper, Roaring Brook. $16.95. (Ages 14 and up) In England in 1650, a young woman is found guilty of a crime and hanged. Hours later a medical student attending a planned dissection of the body sees one of the eyelids move. Based on a true story, Hooper's novel traces the story of Anne Green, who "was hanged and lived to tell the tale": somehow she was only knocked out on the scaffold. In the novel, Green is taken advantage of by the scion of local landowners and the family sets out to ruin her reputation. Her quiet, rueful voice tells half the story from the strange limbo where she finds herself on waking up; the student tells the rest. IMAGINARY MENAGERIE A Book of Curious Creatures: Poems. By Julie Larios. Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. Harcourt. $16. (Ages 6 to 9) Gouache paintings depict mythical monsters in jewel tones of red, green, yellow and blue - firebirds, mermaids, centaurs and others. The accompanying poems aim to intrigue more than inform: "I'm arrow tailed, fish scaled, a luck bringer," a dragon says. Brief endnotes expand on the folk traditions - dragons get their name from the ancient Greek, and in some tales are as small as butterflies - if only touching the surface of a fascinating subject. DOUBLE OR DIE A James Bond Adventure. By Charlie Higson. Hyperion/Disney. $16.99. (Ages 10 and up) The third "young Bond" novel revolves around codes, crosswords and ciphers as a professor turns up missing and James and his Eton friends get caught up in the case. A shadowy enemy is trying to complete "Nemesis" (in a twist, it's not a weapon; it's the world's first computer). The year is 1933, and the atmospherics, from the spires of Cambridge to an abandoned railway underneath the slums of London, are very well done. A series with a high I.Q. HERE A FACE, THERE A FACE Written and photographed by Arlene Alda. Tundra. $14.95. (Ages 4 to 8) Witty photographs pick out the "faces" all around us - a saucepan becomes a long-nosed tin man, a frizzy-headed potted plant gapes in surprise, while a knotty "old tree whistles tunes," round eyes above a round mouth. Readers will suddenly find faces everywhere they look. JULIE JUST WITNESS TO THE REVOLUTION An interview with Maying Li about her memoir for young adults, "Snow Falling in Spring," at nytimes.com/books.
