Moone Boy: The Fish Detective

by O'Dowd, Chris; Murphy, Nick V.

• ISBN13: 9781250103956
• ISBN10: 1250103959
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-05-02
• Publisher: Square Fish

Summary

Martin Moone and his imaginary friend Sean Murphy are back with bigger laughs and sillier adventures!
It's lean times at the Moone household. As Christmas looms closer, all Martin really wants is a Game Boy, but Sean warns him that he won't get such a costly gift. So Martin gets a job to buy his own amazing Christmas present. Martin gets a job as a butcher boy, but there's not much for him to do. The fish shop across the street is booming with business, even though it barely employs anyone. Feeling it's their job to get to the bottom of this fishiness (and also Martin is about to get fired until he suggests it), Martin and Sean infiltrate Francie "Touchy" Feely's fish factory as fish-moles. Martin and Sean find themselves deep in the stinky undercover business. Because that's what you do when you want really awesome Christmas presents. But can Agent M double-O N E get to the bottom of Feely's slippery schemes without sleeping with the fishes himself?

Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd and Nick V. Murphy keeps the goofiness and fun of this series going, based on the International Emmy Award-winning Hulu series of the same name.

"Wildly entertaining... Throughout, there are charming illustrations, as well as footnotes defining words of Irish and adolescent origin: craic (fun), gombeen (buffoon), and a gem I’ve put into rotation: shifting—Irish for French kissing.” —The New York Times Book Review

“The Moone family also deserves special recognition for their realistic portrayal of sibling fights and teen angst.For fans of the absurd and hilarious, look no further than this goofy lovechild of The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” —VOYA

Author Biography

Chris O’Dowd is an award-winning actor and writer from the barmy town of Boyle in Ireland. Chris did some good acting in Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd, Gulliver’s Travels and Of Mice and Men. We won’t mention the films where he did bad acting. He has a dog called Potato and a cat who shouts at him for no reason. He studied at University College Dublin and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He graduated from neither. Chris created Moone Boy to get revenge on his sisters for putting make-up on him as a child. He co-wrote the Sky TV series and this book with his good friend Nick Murphy, who is a lot older than Chris.

Nick V. Murphy is a writer from Kilkenny, Ireland. (The V. in his name stands for Very.) He went to Trinity College Dublin to study English and History, but spent most of his time doing theatre and running away from girls. This was where he bumped into Chris O’Dowd, who was out looking for pizza. After college, Nick focused on writing, which was the laziest career he could think of, as it could even be done while wearing pajamas. He wrote a few things for TV, then a movie called Hideaways, before co-writing a short film with Chris called Capturing Santa. The pajama-wearing pair developed this into the comedy series Moone Boy, which recently won an International Emmy for Best Comedy.