Gecko.Chet Gecko.
We here at the Family Valued detective agency, cricket
nursery, and school for Humphrey Bogart impressions have randomly selected an 11-year-old
from among the one immediately available.
Talk to me about Chet
Gecko.
Chet Gecko is a private eye in different mysteries about
elementary school animals. Chet Gecko has his own private eye agency and his
assistant is Natalie, a mockingbird. He solves mysteries for people, like
my-sister’s-gone-missing-can-you-do-something-about-it?
The Malted Falcon was really cool because I’ve seen the movie The
Maltese Falcon. The book was really cool because they used some of my
favorite Chet Gecko characters plus some of my favorite characters from the
movie. In it, Chet Gecko tries to get the Malted Falcon, this ultimate falcon
made out of candy. There are others who are after it also, so he has to try and
get it before the others do. It was cool!
I’m currently reading Key
Lardo. It’s about these two sisters who are
birds. There’s this penguin who’s really fat and he’s
a detective from England.
His name is James Bland, which is really funny.
These are animals that
live in an elementary school?
The animals are personified like they’re actual people except
they’re animals. They’re kind of like those cat spy books, but he isn’t a spy
and he isn’t a cat. He’s a gecko.
You’ve been reading
this series for a long time.
Yeah, because the books take a long time to come out. It just
seems like a long time.
Who would like these
books?
Anybody who knows what a classic mystery is and knows what
school is like. They are very funny, but Chet Gecko and Natalie make terrible
jokes.
This article appears in Jan 10-16, 2007.
