![]() Kids can enjoy the prankishness adults can rest easy given the conventional underpinnings. ) careens wildly from one extreme scenario to the next, letting the Floods get away with everything-despite their appearances, they’re the good guys. SEPTEMBER 2015 The Floods 13 - The Royal Familycame out in March 2014. ![]() For all you sad deprived people in countries where the Floods haven't been published yet, you can buy them online at Be a fridge, be very a fridge. Australian author Thompson ( The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley (The Floods 10) by Colin Thompson really liked it 4. The Floods is a series of brilliant, rude, scary novels with black and white illustrations. Betty transforms the son into a fridge, a deceased Flood relative reaches out from her grave to grab and devour the daughter, and so on. Their seven kids include a Cousin It–like creature with no arms, four legs and hair on every square inch of her body, including eyeballs and tongue and blonde, perky Betty, the only offspring who looks ordinary (their mother, Mordonna, longed for a child who would dress dolls up instead of turning them into frogs).Trouble begins with the “neighbors from hell” (“not real hell, where some of the Floods’ best friends lived, but hell on earth, which isn’t actually a real place, more a state of mind”), nasty people who meet their demises quite handily. ![]() ![]() When they remodel their new house, they bury their “dead and semidead friends and relations” in the backyard and train the growling front gate to keep out unwanted visitors. In their first outing, the eponymous stars of the Floods series, a clan of reptile-eating witches and wizards, make the Addams family seem tame. ![]()
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