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    Frantastic Voyage
    Frantastic Voyage
    Frantastic Voyage
    Audiobook38 minutes

    Frantastic Voyage

    Written by Jim Benton

    Narrated by Michele Medlin

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    In this madcap episode of Jim Benton's New York Times best-selling series, Franny K. Stein must find and disarm her Doomsday Device before it blows up half the world. While mesmerized by TV's mind-numbing spell, Franny's lab assistant Igor accidentally gobbles up this tiny bomb. Putting on her protective suit, Franny shrinks herself, slips into Igor's snout, and heads for his foul-smelling stomach. But as the remaining seconds tick away, Franny must overcome unexpected challenges to prevent the final KABOOM.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 14, 2010
    ISBN9781449824563
    Author

    Jim Benton

    Jim Benton is a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of many licensed properties, including It's Happy Bunny. He's created a kids' TV series, designed clothing, and written the bestselling series Dear Dumb Diary, as well as Catwad and Franny K. Stein. Jim lives in Detroit with his spectacular family.

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    • 3/5
      Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist (is there any other kind?), with a lab assistant named Igor (not a pure bred lab, but also part Chihuahua, part poodle, part beagle, etc). But Igor is not very competent and usually messes up her experiments. When he accidentally swallows the Doomsday Device she built for emergencies, Franny has to find a way to retrieve the bomb from the dog’s stomach. So she shrinks herself and takes a tour through Igor’s innards. Will she get to the bomb in time to save the world? And how will she get out of Igor and back to her laboratory?

      This is a fun series for the younger set. I like that Franny is always thinking and experimenting. And I like how Benton mentions that her mom can “cook, read, and change the oil in the car.”
    • 5/5
      Frantastic Voyage by Jim Benton is one in a series, Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, which is geared to 8-10 year old children. The titled protagonist is our antihero inventor/mad scientist who lives in her lab/attic bedroom in the Stein family home. Her scientific experiments are all towards creating new technologies, such as her Doomsday Device and Shrinkerizer. Her lab assistant and dog, Igor, swallows the gumball sized Doomsday Device, and to save the world and Igor, Fran puts on her special suit and miniaturizes herself with the Shrinkerizer. Fran enters Igor’s stomach via his nostril, and the adventures that transpire are hilarious. Today’s readers are inundated with technology, so the impact of imagined innovations in technology with large doses of humor and copious illustrations in pen, ink, and watercolor add up to kid’s science fiction at its most accessible. Benton is truly ingenious as he slips in the scientific method, analytical reasoning, and even media literacy messages into a very funny and believable story with imaginary technologies that are scientifically plausible. The framework established by Benton in the Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist series is reasonable and coherent formula for scientific fun and imaginative exploration, and Frantastic Voyage is an exemplar of Benton’s oeuvre.