Inspector Flytrap: Book 1, by Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell, 112 pp, RL 2

It's a very good time to be an emerging reader, especially because Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell , c elebrity super couple of the kid's book world, have teamed up again! This time, the duo bring their weird, wacky senses of humor to Inspector Flytrap , a series of books featuring a hard boiled detective who just happens to be a Venus Flytrap. Being a detective - and a plant - has its challenges. Happily, Inspector Flytrap (who is constantly correcting people who refer to him as Mr. Flytrap) has an assistant, Nina, who puts him on a skateboard and does all the driving whenever they need to get to a crime scene quickly. Nina is a goat, which has a few drawbacks since she will eat anything. As the Inspector says, "it's scary to have an assistant who eats everything, especially for a plant like me." Nina also has a standard flip response to almost everything, which is, "Big deal." The first Big Deal case (no small deal cases for hi