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DIDI DODO - FUTURE SPY

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Full Name: Didi Dodo
Series Name: Didi Dodo - Future Spy
Nationality: Unknown
Organization: Unknown
Occupation Agent

Creator: Tom Angleberger
Time Span: -

ABOUT THE SERIES

Didi Dodo is a future agent.

With what organization she is going to be doing her spy stuff is unknown because since it hasn't happened yet, we have no idea and neither does she. But she does already have a calling card clearly announcing she is "Didi Dodo - Future Spy". It also says she is a licensed babysitter which really isn't important to this discussion but since she is telling us, I figured I would mention it.

Another important point to note is that Dodo is just that - she is a dodo. That is no aspersion against her. She is an actual living, breathing dodo, as in the bird which history tells us went extinct in the latter half of 17th Century. But that is obviously not the case here because she is out and about fighting crime - sort of - and practicing being the spy she knows she is meant to be.

We have no idea exactly how old Didi Dodo is - how does one tell on a dodo? She must be a grown-up dodo because she is going around doing all sorts of things with other grown-ups and not once does anyone say about her being too young to be doing these things. And the sorts of things she does is pretty grown-up-ish, like recovering stolen property from dastardly villains and fighting scary, dangerous robots and rescuing the Queen of the country.

And she does all that, mostly in the company of another member of the dodo species, Koko Dodo (I don't think they are related but ...). Kiki is the owner and operator of the highly prestigious Koko Dodo Cookie Company. In the first recorded adventure, our hero is out to help her in a very important matter. After that, the matter of why Koko is accompanying Didi is never really explained.

One last point to mention about Didi Dodo and her future spy work is that she does so dressed in a purple trenchcoat with matching purple slouch hat. And roller skates!

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Number of Books:3
First Appearance:2019
Last Appearance:2020

1 Recipe for Disaster Recipe for Disaster
Written by Tom Angleberger
Copyright: 2019

"Koko Dodo the cookie chef has a big problem. Today is the day of the royal cookie contest, and someone has stolen his top-secret fudge sauce! Luckily, a spy enters the scene just in time (or rather, crashes in on her roller skates): Didi Dodo! This might be Didi's first case ever, but she has a daring plan to help Koko. Koko would prefer a safe, simple, sure-to-work plan, but without another option, he and the amateur sleuth take off on a wacky caper full of high-speed chases and big belly laughs."
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2 Robo-Dodo Rumble Robo-Dodo Rumble
Written by Tom Angleberger
Copyright: 2019

Meet Robo-Dodo. Wait! Who's Robo-Dodo? Well, Robo-Dodo is a giant evil robot who also makes cookies. And it's selling them right across the street from Koko Dodo's bakery! And it's only charging a penny for as many as you can eat! Soon Koko Dodo is almost out of business. But lucky for him, there's a spy on the case. Her name? Dodo. Didi Dodo."
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3 Double-O Dodo Double-O Dodo
Written by Tom Angleberger
Copyright: 2020

"Meet the Queen. She's a duck and Koko's trusty assistant. When Koko Dodo comes into his Cookie Shop, he finds that the Queen has been kidnapped—or . . . ducknapped! Over a frantic phone call, she tells Koko that she's been taken by a human, which is preposterous. Everyone knows that humans aren't real! Didi Dodo is on the case and has a plan: Go undercover at the Humanland amusement park to find the Queen and save the day!"
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MY COMMENTS

This three-adventure chapter book series is designed for those 1-12 years of age; obviously the younger one would have the stories read to them and the older ones would do the reading for themselves. They are all illustrated by the very talented Jared Chapman who not only provides a good number of pictures to demonstrate what is happening, the stories themselves occasionally switch to comicbook style a page here and there .

The spy-ness of the series is, not surprising, very limited but the stories are cute and great for the target audience and the author, Tom Angleberger, has a delightful sense of humor and timing so if I had young-uns needing to be entertained, I would have been pleased to read these to them and later letting them do the reading to me!

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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