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E. W. Hildick (1925–2001)

Auteur de The Case of the Nervous Newsboy

103+ oeuvres 1,401 utilisateurs 11 critiques 1 Favoris

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Œuvres de E. W. Hildick

The Case of the Nervous Newsboy (1976) 107 exemplaires
The Case of the Secret Scribbler (1978) 94 exemplaires
THE CASE OF THE INVISIBLE DOG (1977) 83 exemplaires
The Case of the Phantom Frog (1979) 73 exemplaires
Les pisteurs et l'homme sans voix (1985) 51 exemplaires
Deadline for McGurk (1975) 42 exemplaires
The Great Rabbit Rip-Off (1976) 41 exemplaires
The Nose Knows (Tempo Books) (1973) 39 exemplaires
Manhattan Is Missing (1969) 31 exemplaires
A Cat Called Amnesia (1976) 26 exemplaires
Case of the Bashful Bank Robber (1981) 24 exemplaires
Thirteen types of narrative (1968) 20 exemplaires
The Ghost Squad Breaks Through (1984) 19 exemplaires
Ghost Squad Flies Concorde (1985) 14 exemplaires
The Case of the Absent Author (1995) 13 exemplaires
Case Of The Wiggling Wig, The (1996) 10 exemplaires
The Questers (1966) 10 exemplaires
Bracknell's Law (1975) 9 exemplaires
The Menaced Midget (1975) 8 exemplaires
Louie's Lot (1965) 8 exemplaires
Children and Fiction (1974) 8 exemplaires
The secret winners, (1970) 8 exemplaires
Louie's Sos (1968) 7 exemplaires
Time Explorers, Inc (1976) 6 exemplaires
Louie's ransom (1978) 6 exemplaires
Lucky Les (1967) 4 exemplaires
Jim Starling Goes to Town (1967) 2 exemplaires
The Weirdown experiment (1976) 2 exemplaires
The Prisoners Of Gridling Gap (1971) 2 exemplaires
Lunch with Ashurbanipal (1965) 2 exemplaires
Top Boy at Twisters Creek (1975) 2 exemplaires
Here Comes Parren (1972) 2 exemplaires
Jim Starling (1958) 2 exemplaires
Calling Questers Four (1971) 2 exemplaires
Jim Starling's Holiday (1960) 2 exemplaires
Birdy Jones (1969) 2 exemplaires
Birdy in Amsterdam (1971) 2 exemplaires
Birdy part en tournée (1969) 2 exemplaires
Louie's snowstorm (1974) 2 exemplaires
Birdy and the group (1969) 2 exemplaires
Louie's Lot (1968) 1 exemplaire
O Alibi do Bigodes 1 exemplaire
Meet Lemon Kelly (1967) 1 exemplaire
Lemon Kelly 1 exemplaire
Bed and work (1962) 1 exemplaire
A Town on the Never (1963) 1 exemplaire
The doughnut dropout (1972) 1 exemplaire
The Boy at the Window (1960) 1 exemplaire
O rapto das bonecas 1 exemplaire
My Kid Sister (1984) 1 exemplaire
Jim Starling takes over (1971) 1 exemplaire
På sporet (1976) 1 exemplaire
Aufruhr bei den Robinsons (1977) 1 exemplaire
O Tesouro da árvore 1 exemplaire
Os Investigadores Livro 1 (1990) 1 exemplaire

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Nom canonique
Hildick, E. W.
Nom légal
Hildick, Edmund Wallace
Date de naissance
1925-12-29
Date de décès
2001-02-12
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Lieu du décès
London, England, UK
Professions
children's book author

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In this first book in the Ghost Squad series, Danny Green has come to grips with the fact he's dead. His siblings, Jilly and Mike, at 8 and 10 are working their way through childhood problems without him. Then he meets Joe, Karen and Carlos....other ghosts who want desperately to talk to someone alive. The four ghosts figure out how to talk to Danny's friends from school -- Wacko and Buzz -- by using a word processor. They become.....(da dah daaaaaa!) The Ghost Squad! Joining together to solve crimes and mysteries, the ghosts and live nerdy kids work together to foil bullies, robbers and other nefarious sorts.

This story read like an old ABC After School Special. I loved it!

Published in 1984, this book is cute, but dated. I happened across a copy purely by accident and just had to read it. :) I'm a sucker for old OOP kids books. :) The story is a quick read and enjoyable. The group of friends are like an 80s version of the Scooby Doo Gang sans dog. Fun story. This is actually the first book in a series of six. I'm going to try to weasel up the other books online. I enjoyed this first one enough to want to read the rest. The outdated computer jargon alone made it worth it. I remember the first klunky word processors....nothing more than a glorified typewriter with those lovely glow in the dark green or street light orange letters glowing....and the accompanying loud, shaking, slowwwww dot matrix printers. The mental picture of two living boys leaning into their word processor to talk to four ghost kids while plotting how to foil some bullies and robbers made me smile. Just too fun a story to pass up!

E.W. Hildick wrote many other middle-grade books including the McGurk Mystery series and The Top-Flight Fully-Automated Junior High School Girl Detective (I absolutely have to find a copy of this book just for the title!). This series is a bit dated, but since 80s nostalgia is popular right now, the books would be a fun read for computer-loving middle grade students and adults. :) Updated a bit, this would make a cute premise for a kids' show on Disney Channel or Nickelodeon.

I looked around online a bit....there are plenty of used copies of this old OOP series floating around online for cheap. Definitely worth a read. Well-written, cute and enjoyable!
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Œuvres
103
Aussi par
1
Membres
1,401
Popularité
#18,326
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
11
ISBN
205
Langues
5
Favoris
1

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