Fakespeare in the Park

Informationen zum Autor Gabe Soria is a Brooklyn-based writer of weird fiction and strange music journalism whose work has appeared in Mojo ! Arthur ! and DC Comics’ Batman Adventures ! as well as a graphic novel with Macmillan titled Life Sucks .  This is his first book for Cartoon Network Books. PROLOGUE   GONGGGGGGG . . . GONGGGGGGG . . . GONGGGGGGG. The bell in the clock tower in the town square began to ring twelve long and spooky times. On the craggy hilltop overlooking the sleeping city, three figures gathered ’round a cauldron bubbling over a fire, going about their weird business. It was midnight—the witching hour. And in this case, we mean witching hour literally, because the three figures were honest-to-goodness WITCHES, and midnight is their time to shine.   “The chimes have sounded, my sisters!” said Cronella, the eldest of the three. She looked the most like a traditional “witchy” witch—she was dressed in pointy shoes, striped socks, gray rags, and a pointed hat. She jabbed a bony finger in the direction of the town’s glittering lights. “Look yonder! There it is, the humble place where soon a great reckoning shall occur!”   Her sister Blandene looked up from the cauldron, into which she was sprinkling some salt from the shaker she had just taken out of her fanny pack. Blandene was dressed a tad less traditionally than Cronella; she liked to wear jeans and an oversize sweater with a kitty cat on it. She squinted in the general direction her sister’s gnarly finger was aiming.   “There’s going to be a great reckoning at the bowling alley?” said Blandene. “Great! Do we get to go? I haven’t been bowling in, like, forever.”   “No, not the bowling alley! Cast your eyes widdershins,” said Cronella.   “Widder-what?” said the third sister, Putricia, who didn’t look up at all. Putricia, being the youngest sister, was dressed like a mall goth. She was sitting cross-legged on the ground, focused on the handheld video game she was playing.* “And is that stew ready yet? I’m starrrrrrving.”   “What kind of witches are you that you don’t even know what widdershins means? I mean, c’mon! Was I the only one paying attention in class? I . . .” Cronella sighed and took a deep breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Her doctor had warned her about her blood pressure. “The left. A little over to the left of the bowling alley.”   “Oh, okay. The LEFT.” Blandene squinted harder as she looked to the left of the bowling alley. “At Taco’Clock? Even better. They have the BEST guacamole, and their chips are homemade.”   Putricia looked up from her game. “Did I hear someone say Taco’Clock ? Omigod, let’s go. Their guacamole is the BOMB.”   “No, your OTHER left, you idiots.”   “Rats. I was really looking forward to that guacamole,” said Blandene. She and Putricia joined Cronella at the edge of the cliff to get a better look. “Okay, to the left . . . Hmm. Oh! You mean the Park?”   “Yes! The Park.”   “Why didn’t you just say that in the first place?” said Putricia.   “Because it’s cooler and more mysterious to just point and say, ‘Look yonder,’ that’s why!” Cronella threw her hands up. “We’re weird! We’re witches! Being mysterious is our thing. Duh!”   “Well, you don’t have to get so bent out of shape about it,” Putricia said, with a roll of her eyes.   “I’m NOT bent out of shape! I just take this weird-sisters thing seriously, okay?”   “Okay, you two. Break it up.” Being the middle sister, Blandene was used to having to come between the other two witches. “So, what’s the plan?”   “The plan is this: We shall go to the Park, set up shop there, an Zusammenfassung Hast thou heard of Shakespeare in the Park? Bro! this is so much cooler. Mordecai and Rigby are trying to slack off again! only this time it's a...

Product details

• Authors: Gabe Soria
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.03.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9780843183450
• ISBN: 978-0-8431-8345-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Regular Show; Regular Show
• Subject: Children's and young people's books