Publisher Description

Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends! They love building models, reading about shovels, and going on INTERGALACTIC adventures?! One day, Blue and Barry are enjoying a quiet afternoon when Pancakes bounds in with a surprise-- she's made a rocket out of balloons! And a whole planet named Balloonia! Blue and Barry agree to take a quick peek at Pancakes' creations, but what's meant to be a fun tour quickly turns into an ordeal as the gang finds themselves trapped by the Balloonians, a species of balloon that's come to life. And if our heroes want to make it home, they'll have to overcome the biggest and meanest Balloonian of all-- BALLOON KONG! Like all friends, they can make mistakes... but at the end of the day, they always have each other's backs. And tops, and sides, and fronts, too!

Author Biography

Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson go back. Waaaaay back. They got their start drawing and writing stories in what feels like the early Jurassic period, also known as the '90s, when they were making comics in the back of their high school art room. Annnnnd they never stopped! The acclaimed cartooning duo live, breathe, and eat comics and animation. They love writing and drawing stories more than anything else in the whole wide world, and they really hope you like reading them. Dan and Jason making everything together! They think it, write it, draw it, mix it, bake it, and serve it as a team. Just like Blue, Barry, and Pancakes, they're best friends!

Review

Praise for Blue, Barry & Pancakes: "[Dan and Jason] fill energetic and cinematic panels with sound effects and screwball comedy, resulting in an absurd tale of friendship that never stops moving."--Publisher's Weekly "Rapidly paced and loaded with absurdity and laughs, dynamic cartoon illustrations sweep readers along on a journey designed to humorously upend their expectations. A happy ending and gentle lesson on friendship close what is happily the first of many escapades."--Booklist "The cartoon art is bright and appealing, with loud colors, exaggerated comic reactions, and goofy details. ...Riotously entertaining. Readers will look forward to more adventures with this quirky trio."--School Library Journal "A joyful, slapstick romp."--Horn Book

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