The very first book we read at my very first online reading programme was Trouble with Magic by Asha Nehemiah. A few weeks ago, a child who has been part of my book club since the beginning asked, “Can we read it again? Trouble with Magic was so funny!” I told him we wouldn’t reread a book, but what we could do was read the sequel, A Pinch of Magic.
This time, however, I’d already finalised the hOle book I wanted to read, so I did the next best thing – I chose another book by Asha Nehemiah, The Adventures of Mooli and the Sticker Trickster. This isn’t the first of the Mooli series, but it works so well as a standalone book that I knew it would be the perfect substitute!
Mooli and Soups are busy ideating. They must come up with an idea that will win a prize at WAYOUTS – World’s As Yet Original Untried Tricks and Stunts. What can they do that will be simply outstanding? Surely, two intrepid young children can come up with not one, but a hundred ideas!
In the middle of all this, however, they have a mystery to solve. Who could be vandalising Mooli’s Amma’s signboard with silly stickers? Why does her board now read ‘Yummy Scrummy mon Keys’?
A hilarious adventure ensues as Mooli and Soups get to the bottom of the mystery and find the vandal. Characters leap off the pages in this funny page-turner. In the hunt for the thief, maybe, maybe Mooli and Soups can do more than just solve the mystery!
WAYOUTS
I love the idea of WAYOUTS! What thoroughly original idea can you come up with? What can you (safely) do that you think no one has ever done before?
At my book club, we’ll share every idea we can think of – the wackier the better!
Word Collage
The sticker trickster cuts out words and sticks them on Gita Aunty’s signboard.
Equipped with a newspaper and a stick of glue, let’s see what we can do together. We could make a birthday card, a book cover, anything!
Alphabet
Playing with the alphabet is always fun, and no one is too old for it! Mooli and Soups use yogasanas to create the alphabet; what can we do? Quite a lot, actually depending on the amount of time we have.
For one, we could play with the wonky alphabet, in Craig Smith’s style. For another, as I was reading The Adventures of Mooli and the Sticker Trickster, I remembered that as children, we had a sign for each letter of the alphabet – a secret code! I still remember so much of it that I would love to pass it on. Who doesn’t love a good code?
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