THE UNFOCUSED MAN BY TOM HOFFMAN
At one point in The Unfocused Man by Tom Hoffman, a woodpecker spy is offered a generous bribe of peanut butter to do a difficult task, whereupon he encourages Max, one of several kids born beneath a comet (his, the color blue) to: “Tell me more about the mission. Will there be skulking? Skulking is good.” And there you have all you need to know about the second book of an exceptional new series, The Comet Kid Chronicles. No, you say? Yes, I say. What does this opening sentence tell you? Somewhere within, someone described as an unfocused man will make an unusual appearance. A bird will communicate in an unusual way with an unusual boy – one of several unusual children – and there is obviously embedded in this unusual tale a lot of unusual humor. Not to mention skulking, which is always good in such unusual circumstances. Also, peanut butter, which is unusually good, always.
On a more serious note, Tom Hoffman continues to beguile and enchant young readers’ imaginations with his metaphysically inspired creations, and most recently with the advent of his brand-new series about the Comet Kids, and specifically with the advent of this second episode, The Unfocused Man. It is rather difficult to talk about plot in Tom Hoffman’s books. One might best describe them as ‘webs of adventurous, humorous, out-of-this-world activity’. And what about the apparent coincidences portending spontaneous danger, but handled with expedient intent and admirably fortunate results? Welcome to the whimsical but protective universe of a most unusual author.
T. HOFFMAN
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