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Mega Robo Bros

by Neill Cameron

Interest age: 8+
Reading age: 9+

Published by David Fickling Books, 2016

  • Comic books
  • Funny

About this book

Brothers always find something to fight about, whether it's a 'borrowed' comic or deciding whose 'face smells like a butt'. They drive each other, and their parents, crazy. Alex and Freddy are no different - even though they're also the most powerful robots in the universe.

Wrestling with bullies, babysitters and school trips, the boys also have to take on evil robots in all shapes and sizes, from apes and dinosaurs to royal palace guards.

There's never a dull moment for Alex and Freddy - whether at home with their family or on the streets of a future London under the threat of another evil Robot, there are laughs, squabbles and brotherly banter.

Reluctant readers might be swayed by the comic book form, but any story lover will enjoy the balance of everyday home-life struggles and trying to avoid the end of the world, again.

About the author

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the comic books Mega Robo BrosMo-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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