The Flesh-eating Diplomat from Outer Space

Great book. Great Cause. Great characters and yes, I would have kicked Greta in the shins too! Backed with pleasure.

You're helping kids so of course I have to back it and it's a good story too with characters and situations that kids will be enthralled by. Get it on facebook and blog it to get it out there and promote it. Good luck.

Crazy Mama supports the book and the efforts to help children suffering emotional/psychological trauma.

An engaging story that we both enjoyed. Has a Disneyesque character about it. "Would make a good movie." according to my ten year old daughter.

I hope you will give mine a read and back it if you like it.
Best,
Robert
Golden Conspiracy

Backed for now, but will come back tomorrow and read it with my ten year old daughter. She love to read, and will help me in my comments.

I hope you will give mine a read and back it if you like it.
Best,
Robert
golden conspiracy

A brilliant children's book set out in easy to read instalments. This is appealing to all ages, and is something I could see myself reading with my son in a few years. It's quirky, funny and engaging, perfect for keeping hold of those attention spans.

Backed with pleasure.
Abi xxx

Firstly, congratulations and well done! I hope you go on to have great success with your book and achieve your dreams with your work. The story is wonderfully written, humorous and the characters are delightful. Best of luck and backed with pleasure, mariecapri

Excellent, my kids will love it. Has that off-kilter feel of Dahl and Lemony Snicket. Kids love the strange and unusual... possibly because everything is strange and unusual when you're young.

Dan
Demons and Other Inconveniences

I LOVE THIS!! Nothig more to say.

Lockjaw

Backed with pleasure! Good Luck!!
A look at Sicilian Shadows would be greatly appreciated.
Frank.
If you back my work, you may also want to approach BJD (a big supporter of Sicilian Shadows) for a further read and possible backing of your book.

Hope this does well.
Hatts x

This is an interesting slant on a children's book. No cute cats or bunnies here. We get goopers and narls instead. I like children's books that feature older adults (I'm fast becoming one myself) so the pitch for this popped out at me. I think this is the kind of book you read over and over to children because each time you discover something new you didn't notice before in the pages. A good read. Burgio (Grain of Salt).

Great opening, great read!

Great dialogue, great story

Greatly backed!!

This is such a wonderful children's book - although my kids are grown now - I guess you'd consider them urchins - I still love a great picture book and this has all the elements to suck me right in and then some! This is the sort of children's book you keep as a collectors peice like on a coffee table - I'd love to see the illustrations (shame you can't do that here) and if they are as well crafted as the text then this is a Newberry Winner! Pay Attention Authonomy - this is a keeper!! BACKED with pleasure!

Liz
The Cheech Room

I started laughing while reading your pitch and kept right on through the chapters.

Delightful, high spirited book, which I'm sure will appeal to both kids and the same folks who enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut.

Still giggling as I back this.

Best of luck here.

-Jeff Lee
THE LADIES TEMPERANCE CLUB'S FAREWELL TOUR

I think this will be a hit with your target audience.

A patchwork of confused ideas. Multi-directional. Presents as a novel where the author has lost the plot.

BK

Adorable with lots of suspense and humor, not to mention colorful characters and enchanting plot. My brother was a Zargon...

Well done,

backed with excitement for you
sue

What a great read even though I'm not a kid. Funny, imaginative, naughty as kids are - perfect. WIll back and hope you get it published. Paddy

What a great read even though I'm not a kid. Funny, imaginative, naughty as kids are - all in all, perfect. Will back this and hope you get it published. Paddy

Hi there - sorry for the delay in the read. Excellent, off-the-wall kiddies' concept, the sort of thing that would really have appealed to me as a kid. Lots of Spike Milligan/Roald Dahl word-mangling and bizarrely-named creatures, plus an out-of-this-world plot that snags the imagination. Great stuff

Pat Black
Snarl

This is hilarious! They'll be angrier if he turns into a Popsicle! Classic!

I really enjoyed reading this. It's got the perfect amount of silly names, evil badness, and all around funniness that is required for a comedy kids book.

Fantastic! Shelved.

It's perfect.

Craig

Hilarious and probably the easiest book to back so far this year, a) because of the content and b) because of the cause.

An absolute joy to read!

Backed!

JLux
Finding Letta

Sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to see the pictures.
Good luck helping the kids with this. I'm sure they'll enjoy reading it!
backed
Genevieve

this is great stuff. made me want to be a kld again - felt like i was actually, reading it. kudos!

up on my shelf.

very best of luck with it. hope the royalties go far in helping children.

kelly
(chasing kate)

Your pitch is hilarious.

“missing and presumed eaten.” LOL

“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness,” I had an Orphan Annie moment there. (But I’ve seen that movie entirely too much.)

I think you have him doing it because he’s being dramatic, but the way the brother is talking when they first hear about the grandfather sounds like being silly to me when I’d think he’d be upset.

Really, though, this whole thing is a riot. Far too many belly-laughs to list. Brilliant.

Leah Petersen – Mourn the Sun

What a hoot! Kids will just love this viusal and auditory feast. You've really captured the vivid imagination of kids. I think I actually had a babysitter like Great at one point in my life (and I can just see her jowles jiggling from the donut). I thoroughly enjoyed this read and wish you the best of luck! Backed!

Tawn Anderson (Providence)

Lots of funny noises and weird creatures, just the job! Good story for a good cause. Jim D Serpent's Blood

This is an effective combination of science fiction and comedy which will surely engage and delight your target reader. Your portrait of Angela Bubble and brother Robert Bubble remind me of Toil and Trouble for the annoyance that Robert gives to his admiring sister. Backed for an endearing book and help to 'children suffering from emotional trauma'.
Ray
(A Child from the Wishing Well)

Hi Marvel,
This is absolutely delightful. I enjoyed it enourmously and have no doubt that children (both big and small) everywhere will be enthrawled by the story. More than happy to place this little gem on my shelf.
Good luck,
James (The Lycetta Legacy).

This brought out the child in me. Good one.

Happy to back,

Hsiau Hsiau Moo

(The Monarch Butterfly)

Have been feeling deeply grumpy for all sorts of reasons and not entirely sure how I came to be reading your book. But all I can say is that you have seriously cheered me up. I am a famous sour-puss but there is a smile (okay maybe more of a rictus) playing around my mouth.
I really love what you've done here. You don't hang around which is great because this age group sure as hell don't want long meaningful prologues . You just get stuck in right away. There is humour and sheer daftness and I reckon it's a winner. And, hey ho, I have no book to plug, no backings to seek, so take this as genuine praise, not authonogushing.

On my shelf forthwith, squire....and all power to your rise... Jane

Very happy to back this book both from the charitable donation and the content. I hope you write more its lovely, harmless and funny as a childs book should be.

Knowing Liam Riley

Sue Mackender

The Flesh-eating Diplomat from Outer Space:

Delightful book for children. Will back this for my grandchildren. They'll love the glomps and ugghhs and KABOOM sound effects. :)

Normally I'm anti-exclamation marks but here, especially with the dialogue, they bring everything to life.

Juat a few punctuation errors.

Will back this soon.

Cáit ~ Muckers ~

Hi Marvel, Loved the wacky pace of this and for all the invented ideas, it reads smoothly and clearly. I was really involved there looking for the buttons. And Greta is hilarious. It only took a few paragraphs to explain the Narls and the Energy Vampires. It’s fun and the active prose seems right for the age. Sort of a space Roald Dahl. It caused me to visualize illustration. A pleasure to shelve – Katherine (The Swan Bonnet)

Lots of fun here--for children from 8 to 80! Shelved.

Bill

My sense of humour is aged 6-9, so I enjoyed this a great deal. With its mix of surreal and kitchen-sink, and joyous silliness, I could, at points, hear Spike Milligan narrating this.

'Taint ma thang boay, but well-written in a pacy, light-hearted style with imagination and bubble-gum too!
Great stuff.

My brain is utterly useless right now, but...I believe I can tap out a couple of things that strike me: insane, out-of-body hilarity and...perfect comic timing. For kids? Too good for kids! Or - No, what am I thinking. Too good for adults. This bit of work is further proof (as if we needed any) of Daniel Pinkwater's dictum: children are better readers than adults. Therefore, chidren's book writers must rise to the occasion and write better (with greater economy and precision) than they would if writing for adults.

Oh, backed.

Andrea Levin
(Last Days of the Transitional Objects Institute)

I absolutely love this book. This is what childhood is all about. It's a joyous read. An instant classic.
Barbara Silkstone The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters.

I don't know why the ticking of the digital clock filled me with such amusement but it did. This is the kind of stuff kids will breathe in. Quick, funny and absolutely barking mad.

Brilliant book. Simply written. Very witty. A joy to read. Nice pitch and a very appealing book cover. This is accomplished work for children that adults can appreciate along the way.

Best Wishes for success.

Backed when I have a shelf slot.

Alexander

Marvel Gumshoe, what a fantastic name!

This is a delightful book. Completely enjoyable and funny.

Great!

Tim H

A simply written work of genius. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Greta is someone kids are going to love to hate. Angela is absolutely precious. Robert is the big brother that makes everything okay. I love the fast-paced start, kids like to get right into the action. Wonderful! Glad I backed this.
Rakhi (Sir William...)

And anyway it's lovely, really funny, well done and hope you get all the way, Maggie P.

"Marvel Gumshoe" captures the imagination of children Brilliantly in this book! Heck, I even loved this whimsical story and I'm 40 . . . .

This work has so much going for it - from the inspired name of the author to the child-appeal story, cute book cover in between. [good to see you've set your reader age! So many don't]. The very best of luck with this project.

I'd back this for the noble cause, but I'm not. I'm backing it because I think it's brilliant. A really good feel to it.
Cheers,
Simon