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Mega Robo Bros 2: Mega Robo Rumble

by Neill Cameron

Interest age: 8 to 11
Reading age: 8+

Published by David Fickling Books, 2017

  • Adventure
  • Chapter books
  • Comic books
  • Funny
  • Science fiction

About this book

Alex and Freddy are like most brothers. They fight among themselves and irritate their parents. But Alex and Freddy just happen to be the most advanced and powerful robots on earth.

In a futuristic London, not all robots are working for good – and when an underground army of discarded, misfit droids seem determined to get revenge on humankind (and on Alex and Freddy’s mum, in particular), they have their work cut out to forget their squabbles and save the day.

This visually rich and exciting comic book is funny, inclusive and divided into manageable chapters. The familiarity of the everyday contrasts beautifully with the dream of being a superhero, and the characters are distinctive and celebrate a world of diversity.

This is Alex and Freddy’s second adventure and, while it stands alone as a story, is likely to be enjoyed most if you have read the first book.

About the author

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the comic books Mega Robo Bros,  Mo-Bot High, The Pirates of Pangaea  (with Daniel Hartwell), Tamsin and the Deep (with Kate Brown), and the instructional How To Make Awesome Comics. Since 2011 his work has appeared in the weekly children’s comic The Phoenix. In 2016 Mega Robo Bros and Tamsin and the Deep were both shortlisted for the British Comics Awards. In 2017, Mega Robo Bros won the Excelsior Award Jr, a national comic award voted for by school and library reading groups across the UK. In 2018 it was also chosen as one of the best children's comics of the year by both the New York Public Library and the Schools Library Journal.

Neill also works as an artist-in-residence at The Story Museum in Oxford, where he contributed several large-scale comic strip installations and continues to be involved in comics-based education and activities, including running a monthly Comics Club group for young cartoonists.

Neill frequently travels the country giving workshops in schools, libraries and at festivals, and is a passionate advocate for the role comics can play in developing literacy skills and encouraging children’s creativity.

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