This is not my story

"This Is Not My Story is an adventure-filled introduction to the ten literary genres. The story starts with our hero, a brave captain flying his spaceship through an army of saucers. To defeat the aliens, all the hero has to do is push the right button and ... the hero stops the story. It turns...

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Main Author: Uytdewilligen, Ryan, 1992- (Author)
Other Authors: Huyck, David, 1976- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2023]
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Summary: "This Is Not My Story is an adventure-filled introduction to the ten literary genres. The story starts with our hero, a brave captain flying his spaceship through an army of saucers. To defeat the aliens, all the hero has to do is push the right button and ... the hero stops the story. It turns out this is the wrong story for him. After pleading with the author to put him in the proper story, the two settle on a shoot-out in the Old West -- until the hero once again begs the author to find a better fit. Could he be a dragon-slaying knight? A vampire victim? A crime-scene detective? The author tries again and again -- at one point leaving the hero waiting in his underwear! -- but he just can't seem to get it right. So the hero decides to take matters into his own hands...."--
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN: 9781525303432
1525303430
Author Notes: Ryan Uytdewilligen is a multi-award-winning author who enjoys writing in a variety of different genres, as well as for film and television. His novel for adults, The Cattle Driver, earned the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion for Best Western Short Fiction. This is his first children's book. Ryan lives in Coaldale, Alberta.

David Huyck is an award-winning illustrator, as well as a printmaker, a painter and a sculptor. He is the illustrator of Manners Are Not for Monkeys, That One Spooky Night and Wingmaker, as well as If Kids Ruled the World, which won both the Blue Spruce Award and the Shining Willow Award. He lives with his family in Northfield, Minnesota.