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They call themselves lunch engineers because they work in a cafeteria, but the Lunch Lady and her assistant Betty are really superheroes. They fight crime wearing yellow aprons, communicate by spork phone, and conduct secret meetings in the school boiler room. Using kitchen gadgets which have been modified by Betty in the secret lab, the Lunch Lady can improve her vision and auditory range, enter locked rooms, and climb tall buildings.
In the third book in the series, Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta , they rescue a number of gym teachers who have been kidnapped by disgruntled children’s author Lewis Scribson. With the help of the Breakfast Bunch students (Dee, Terrence, and Hector), the Lunch Lady and Betty are making the world a safer place, apprehending one criminal at a time.
Rendered in ink and colored digitally with the occasional yellow hue, the comic-style illustrations in this graphic novel are as humorous as the dialogue. When the Lunch Lady expresses her emotions, she exclaims ‘Green Beans!’, ‘Great Goulash!’, or ‘Sweet BBQ Sauce!’ Both Dee and the Lunch Lady come up with witty banter when they confront the school bully, Milmoe.
Humorous action-packed scenes include an impromptu dodgeball game with sock bombs and Terrance’s well-aimed soccer ball kick which takes down a getaway helicopter.
Librarians will love recommending this graphic novel series. Good, clean laughs abound in every book. The Lunch Lady is sure to be an instant hit with kids of all ages.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka was inspired to create the Lunch Lady character after he attended a school reunion and saw his former school lunch lady still working in the cafeteria. The author and illustrator of the picture books Punk Farm, Punk Farm on Tour, and Good Night, Monkey Boy is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Massachusetts.
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Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta