SOME FRIENDS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD!
THE GREAT BIG BOOM
BY JUDD WINICK
HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
“Fast paced, FURIOUSLY FUNNY, and will have kids waiting on the edge of their seats for more.”
Jeffrey Brown, JEDI ACADEMY
“ HILO IS MY NEW FAVORITE BOOK. YOU’LL LOVE IT.”
—Aiden B., age 8, Farmington Hills, Mich.
“ Hilo is delightful, SILLY, tender, and most importantly: FUNNY.”
—Jeff Smith, author of the BONE series
“A PERFECT BOOK for any kid who ever needed a friend and then had one with superpowers fall from space.” —Seth Meyers , actor and comedian
★ “ UNIVERSALLY APPEALING . . . A wholeheartedly WEIRD and WONDERFUL tale of friendship, acceptance, and robots.”
Kirkus Reviews, Starred
★ “A MUST-HAVE .”
School Library Journal, Starred !
“GINA IS SO AWESOME. She’s not afraid of anything and really cares about her friend! Mom, can I have my book back?!”
—Kyla G., age 10, Providence
“More GIANT ROBOTIC ANTS . . . than in the complete works of Jane Austen.”
—Neil Gaiman, CORALINE
“Stayed in from recess to read it . . .
CAN’T WAIT FOR NEXT ONE! ”
—Zac A., age 9, Hood River, Ore.
“GINA WAS MY FAVORITE character because she’s into science and soccer like me! I also liked D.J.’s family because it looks like mine!”
—Kiran M., age 7, Carlsbad, Calif.
“My big brother and I fight over this book. I CAN’T WAIT for the second one so we can both read a Hilo book at the same time.”
—Nory V., age 8, Montclair, N.J.
“ BETTER THAN THE BEST! ”
—Matteo H-G., age 9, Oakland
“ACTION-PACKED and AMAZING FUN . ”
“Hilo was SO GREAT I couldn’t stop reading until I’d finished it. I want to read the next one NOW!”
—Jack A., age 10, Brooklyn “Hilo is REALLY, REALLY FUNNY.
It has a LOT OF LAUGHS. The raccoon is the funniest.”
—Theo M., age 7, Miami, Fla.
“ FANTASTIC . EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS . . . IS TERRIFIC.”
—Boingboing.net
—Brad Meltzer, THE FIFTH ASSASSIN
“Hilo is loads of SLAPSTICK FUN!”
—Dan Santat, winner of the Caldecott Medal
“ HIGH ENERGY and HILARIOUS!” —Gene Luen Yang , National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
READ ALL THE BOOKS! HILO #1 THE BOY WHO CRASHED TO EARTH HILO #2 SAVING THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
#3 THE GREAT BIG BOOM
#4 WAKING THE MONSTERS
HILO
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THE GREAT BIG BOOM
BOOK 3
PUFFIN
color by steve hamaker by judd winick
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First published in the United States of America by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2017
First published in Great Britain by Puffin Books 2017 This edition published 2024 001
Copyright © Judd Winick, 2017
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