Leo da Vinci vs The Ice-cream Domination League
  • Published: 3 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780857988379
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $17.99

Leo da Vinci vs The Ice-cream Domination League

Formats & editions
EBook
3 Aug 2015
Paperback
3 Aug 2015
Buy from…
The Nile Mighty Ape BookHub Whitcoulls The Warehouse Paper Plus Fishpond
Find local retailers

When you’re a young genius, there’s always time to save the world from evil … until Mum calls you for dinner.

Help! The Ice-cream Domination League is blowing up the world’s ice-cream factories!

Enter Leo da Vinci. Inventor, artist, genius and founder of Fixit International Inc., all at the age of ten.

His team? Meet steam-powered Isaac, maths whiz and wise-cracking pig Ragnar, and Mina from school, who’s super-handy with a hammer.

The plan? Ready the Strikebird. Pack the Heat-seeking Cauliflower Missiles. Find out why Comet Big-Kahuna is heading for Earth. Stop the IDL before Mum calls you home for dinner.

Start the cheesy launch music and hold on for your life . . .

  • Published: 3 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780857988379
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $17.99
Categories:
Share…

About the authors

Michael Pryor

Michael Pryor has published more than twenty-five fantasy books and over forty short stories, from literary fiction to science fiction to slapstick humour. Michael has been shortlisted six times for the Aurealis Awards, has been nominated for a Ditmar award, and six of his books have been CBCA Notable Books, including three books in the Laws of Magic series. Michael's most recent books include The Chronicles of Krangor series for younger readers, The Laws of Magic series and The Extraordinaires series for older readers, as well as 10 Futures, a collection of interlinked stories imagining what our next 100 years might be like, and middle grade technothriller Machine Wars.

portrait photo of Michael Pryor

Jules Faber

Jules Faber is a multi-award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. He has published numerous comic strips, worked for various newspapers, taught cartooning around Australia, been in multiple art exhibitions and has worked as an animator on a Disney show. Jules has served three terms as President of the Australian Cartoonists Association, the world's oldest cartoonist's organisation. And on top of all that, he loves illustrating children’s books, including Anh Do’s WeirDo series (Scholastic), Helix and the Arrival by Damean Posner and the new Leo da Vinci series by Michael Pryor.

portrait photo of Jules Faber

Praise for Leo da Vinci vs The Ice-cream Domination League

A funny, laugh-out-loud treat for middle primary readers, this first in the Leo da Vinci series has great characters, some human, some not, clever machines built by Leo and company and dastardly villains sure to excite the followers of Leo's adventures.

Fran Knight, Magpies

Writing for a younger age group for the first time, here’s much-loved Australian author Michael Pryor with a new series that centres on an inventor – 10-year-old Leo Da Vinci – who is bright and adventurous but, owing to his total preoccupation with righting wrongs, slightly socially awkward . . . The chapters are short, the text nicely spaced, and several of Jules Faber’s illustrations are brilliantly detailed, so this is perfect for readers of 8 and over.

Emily Gale, readings.com.au

It will appeal to both boys and girls and fans of Tristan Bancks' Tom Weekly books or Liz Pichon’s Tom Gates books will love this new book, which is the first of a series . . . It’s all a bit silly and a lot of fun.

Fairfield Books

Everyone from Year 3 up will absolutely love this wonderful story. Full of lovable characters and the most amazing, ridiculous, plots and inventions you will laugh out loud and wish you could go on Leo’s next adventure with him. Lots and lots of fun.

lamontbooks.com.au

This is the first in a series of stories which will appeal to girls and boys for its laughable inventions and funny carryings on . . . The format suits this age group well, with short chapters, good sized font, and quirky illustrations to add meaning and humour to the text . . . A good read for independent reading 8 year olds and over as well as read aloud to 7 to 10 year olds.

Julie Long, Reading Time