Carl Hiaasen
Chomp
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Story / Adventure
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Chomp sends an animal wrangler's son into the Everglades with a reckless reality star who insists on using genuine wild animals for staged survival scenes. Real animal behavior, wetland danger, and the difference between handling expertise and television fakery keep turning the comic plot.
The science inside
- Animals & Zoology
- Ecosystems
Your child will meet:
- Wild animals respond according to their own behavior and stress, not according to a television script.
- The Everglades is a wetland ecosystem whose weather, water, and wildlife create connected hazards.
- Responsible wildlife work reduces disturbance and risk rather than forcing animals into entertainment stunts.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Simple activity
In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida--where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! When Wahoo Cray's dad--a professional animal wrangler--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 father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna--a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . . It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . "Only in Florida--and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen--does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody." -- New York Post "Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages." -- Los Angeles Times
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