The Exquisite Corpse Adventure

It all starts with a train rushing through the night. . . . Well, actually, it starts when Jon Scieszka,former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes a cliff-hanger episode and passes it on to the next member of a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators,who continues the story and passes it on.And what happens between episodes one and twenty-seven? Think werewolves and mad scientists, a talking pig, creatures from another dimension, several bad knock-knock jokes, plenty of explosions, a monkey disguised as a pirate, a blue Star Wars lunchbox, two meatballs, a whole army of villains and varmints, and one just plain bad egg. Not to mention our heroes, eleven-year-old twins Nancy and Joe, raised in a circus, who must find the pieces of a Top Secret Robot in order to rescue their parents before . . . tick, tick, tick!A collaboration between the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and the Library of Congress's Center for the Book, the hilarious Exquisite Corpse Adventure originated as a national literacy project for young people to help launch the READ.gov website.

With exquisite contributions by:

M. T. Anderson
Natalie Babbitt
Calef Brown
Susan Cooper
Kate DiCamillo
Chris Van Dusen
Timothy Basil Ering
Jack Gantos
Nikki Grimes
Shannon Hale
Steven Kellogg
Gregory Maguire
Megan McDonald
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Linda Sue Park
Katherine Paterson (National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature)
James Ransome
Jon Scieszka (former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature)
Lemony Snicket