The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle

Illustrator: Cover by Kelly Murphy
ISBN: 9780763618803
Format: Paperback, 115pp
Pub. Date: April 2004
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Age Range: 7 to 10

Roscoe Wizzle used to be a normal ten-year-old kid. But that was before a sign reading COMING SOON! GUSSY'S! sprang up in a vacant lot. A sign showing Gussy Gorilla eating a Jungle Drum-just about the biggest hamburger in the world. Roscoe Wizzle, hamburger fan, was a normal kid all right . . . until he started turning into a bug! David Elliott's debut novel takes a hilarious and surreal look at what can happen when you get too much of a good thing.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES
"The wacky plot and quirky details . . . will appeal to young and reluctant readers who like their fiction light and offbeat."- School & Library Journal

"Colorful plot twists and character names combine with sassy first-person narration and snappy dialogue to skew the proceedings a few thoroughly enjoyable degrees off normal." - Publishers Weekly.

- Book Sense 76 Pick
- Bank Street College Best of the Best
- Great Stone Face Nominee, (New Hampshire State Award))
- Nene Nominee, (Hawaii State Award)
- Arizona Young Readers' Award Nominee
- The Lovelace Award Nominee (Minnesota State Award)
- Cocheco Readers' Award Nominee,
- Featured Book for Young People, Orbit Magazine (Australia), April 03
- German, Italian and British editions
- Listening Library Book on Tape, David Krumholtz, reader
- Selected for school and library reading lists across the US.

SOMETHING YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK
A kid from San Diego wrote to tell me that from his school bus window, he'd seen a boy walking into a pink house. Was it Roscoe Wizzle, he wondered. Who knows? It just might have been.