Today we're spotlighting Kevin Sylvester and his Neil Flambe, middle grade series.
Neil, “the flamboyant, irrepressible chef” (Kirkus Reviews), hits the road in his food truck and drives right into a new case in the sixth book in The Neil Flambé Capers, the culinary mystery series celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey calls “good fun.”
Hardcover, 304 pages
Expected publication: February 23rd 2016 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Neil has lost his beloved restaurant. Though he misses it dearly, he and his friend Larry are headed on a new adventure. They are travelling to the Salsa Verde ranch in Arizona with their new food truck to participate in the legendary food truck gathering, the Broiling Man Festival. Once he arrives, Neil discovers that the Verde ranch is in danger of foreclosure, at the mercy of a developer who wants to turn it into housing and a factory farm. The only hope for the ranch is a treasure map left behind by the very first Verde, a chef who discovered a mine while escaping from a murderous army colonel. Neil and Larry are on a quest to find the treasure, but each time they think they’re close to finding something, they come up with nothing. Will the boys find the mine—and the treasure—in time to save Salsa Verde ranch?
Check out Neil's very own website here!
KEVIN SYLVESTER is an award
winning illustrator, writer and broadcaster. His new sci-fi series MiNRs is now out from Simon and Schuster. His series The Neil Flambé Capers is already a bestseller and critical
success. Students across Ontario picked 'Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo
Murders' as the Silver Birch winner for fiction in 2011! There are 5 books in the series so far, Neil Flambé and the Bard's Banquet
is the latest, and the 6th book is due in Spring 2016.
Super-chef Gordon Ramsay calls the series “Good Fun”.
He now splits his time between his attic studio in Toronto and the radio.
Super-chef Gordon Ramsay calls the series “Good Fun”.
He now splits his time between his attic studio in Toronto and the radio.
And the greatkidsreadspodcast at greatkidsreads.com
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