Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling
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Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling (ISBN 0571238513) is the fourth book in the Flanimals series from British
Comedian
Ricky Gervais
and Illustrator
Rob Steen
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The book was published on 4 October 2007 and focuses on the Flanimals teaming up against an enormous swarm of Bletchling, a species that seeks to wipe out all other Flanimal life. The hardcover version of the book comes with a poster featuring a Clunge Ambler and a Molf, in a parody of the movie Jaws
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Category;Children's fiction books
United Kingdom
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Comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
and Illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
Rob Steen
Rob Steen
Rob Steen is the illustrator of the books Flanimals, More Flanimals, Flanimals of the Deep, Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling and Flanimals Pop-Up. Other work includes The Thing's in Ted's Head, Afterlife for Tokyopop and various issues of Elephantmen for Image Comics. He lives in New York...
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The book was published on 4 October 2007 and focuses on the Flanimals teaming up against an enormous swarm of Bletchling, a species that seeks to wipe out all other Flanimal life. The hardcover version of the book comes with a poster featuring a Clunge Ambler and a Molf, in a parody of the movie Jaws
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
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List of Flanimals
- Bletchling – a 'super-Blug', an insectoid with a brain evil on a molecular level.
- Zub – a fatter, fuzzy Vap.
- Vap – similar to a waspWaspThe term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their...
. - Hord Shuffler – a blind blug that scuttles around.
- Monk Worm – larval stage of Frag Drier.
- Frag Drier – a hyperactive Flanimal similar to a dragonflyDragonflyA dragonfly is a winged insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera . It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body...
. - Mov – a mothMothA moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
-like creature will cling onto your arm. - Bant – social Blugs who are constantly busy.
- Klunt – a Flanimal with sharp teeth.
- Pseudo Klunt – mimics the Klunt, but has no teeth.
- Hapless Prey – draws attention to itself by sweating.
- Bleak – a gigantic Flanimal with no digestive fluids.
- Loan Figger – a bipedal frogFrogFrogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...
-like creature.
See also
- FlanimalsFlanimalsFlanimals is a children's book series written by comedian Ricky Gervais. The book, illustrated by Rob Steen, depicts a list of seemingly useless or inadequate animals, and their behaviour.The cover Flanimal is the Grundit...
- More FlanimalsMore FlanimalsMore Flanimals is the sequel to Ricky Gervais' book Flanimals.Like Flanimals, the book features around 30 species of Flanimal, illustrated by Rob Steen, which make up their own imaginary ecosystem....
- Flanimals of the DeepFlanimals of the DeepFlanimals of the Deep is the third book in the Flanimals series from British comedian Ricky Gervais and illustrator Rob Steen...
External links
- Official Website
- Flanimals on Ricky Gervais's site
- Flanimals on Rob Steen's site
- Faber and Faber - UK publisher of all the 'Flanimals' books
Category;Children's fiction books