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AGENT LLAMA

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Full Name: Charlie Palmer
Codename: Agent Llama
Nationality: Unknown
Organization: Unknown
Occupation Agent

Creator: Angela Woolfe
Time Span: 2021 - 2022

ABOUT THE SERIES

Charlie Palmer, aka Agent Llama, is an agent with an unnamed agency.

This anthropomorphized operative is, as the codename indicates, a llama, a wooly female who walks on two legs and has arms like a human, albeit with three really chubby fingers. Palmer is billed as a "super spy" who "always gets her guy". We learn in the opening of the first recorded adventure that she has "saved the world just yesterday by zapping with a laser ray, that beastly bad guy, Bogdan Boom, a [musk ox] scientist with dreams of doom".

From this we learn that she has a arch-nemesis (Boom, in case you missed it) and he will not go down easily, escaping only to return to challenge her yet again in this mission. We also discover that she does not have much of a downtime for despite having defeated Boom the day before, she is back on the job disabling a goon (whose, we don't know) while on the ski slope; she is apparently good on her stylish black skis. Even then she cannot rest for she received an urgent message to race out on yet another case.

One thing really cool about Palmer is that when she heads out on this new assignment, she does so in what looks like a private plane with oodles of leg room (good for a llama), drinking her favorite beverage, a lemon fizz. It is here we discover some more of her nifty gadgets, in addition to the laser ray gun we saw earlier and the decidedly lesser hi-tech blowgun with its tranquilizer dart. In her attache case she has a stink bomb hidden inside a Brussel sprout, a "bag of chips with jet propeller" (that one confused me), a parachute in a small umbrella (that's neat!) and a sports car in a ping-pong ball (okay, I have no clue).

A final piece of interesting detail on Palmer is that the chronicler who relates these two tales of her activities in rhymes, rather well done.

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Number of Books:2
First Appearance:2021
Last Appearance:2022

1 Agent Llama Agent Llama
Written by Angela Woolfe
Copyright: 2021

"Charlie Palmer, super spy has been summoned for a top-secret mission: to find the president's underpants! She gets herself geared up. Gadgets ready? Check! Sunglasses on? Check! But who could have taken the underpants? Could it be Greta Grimm and her goons? Watch out, bad guys! Villains are no match for this AWESOME llama!"
Note: the French version has Agent Llama having a different name of Lama Kroft.

2 Agent Llama: Alpaca Attack Agent Llama: Alpaca Attack
aka Agent Llama: Double Trouble
Written by Angela Woolfe
Copyright: 2022

"Charlie Palmer, super spy and secret agent, is back in a hilarious new adventure. Reports of spaghetti falling from the sky are coming in from all over the world. But the worst part is that Charlie is the suspect behind the mayhem! Charlie sets out to discover who really has upended the world with these antics and meets her match--an alpaca whose goal is to cover the sun in spaghetti! Can Charlie stop her before it's too late?"

MY COMMENTS

There are not many spy books that I have read over the many decades I have been enjoying them that I would have loved to read aloud to young kids. Most of them would have been terribly inappropriate and not much fun for them. That is not the case with Agent Llama, assuming the wee listener was three or four years old.

I loved the rhyming that the author did and the gadgets and all that. A terrific way to introduce the young tykes into the world of action espionage adventures, and to teach them the joy of reading.

A llama for a spy, though? Ah, just go with it!

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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