

The twins use their cleverness to send the tourists packing the other way so they can save their home.Rare Beasts is the first book in the Edgar and Ellen book series. When the mayor invites a group of celebrities to Nod's Limbs for a French toast festival. Tourist Trap is about how Mayor Knightleigh announces that he wants to build a luxury hotel on the site of Edgar and Ellen's beloved Gadget Graveyard. These two anti-heroes get their just desert in the end. so the twins decide to fund raise by nabbing the pets of Nod's Limbs and transforming them into exotic animals worth millions. However, their havoc wreaking has incurred expenses. Their parents disappeared years ago, and now they spend their days avoiding Heimertz, the accordion-playing groundskeeper, pestering Pet, their hairball companion, and wreaking havoc on the ultra-sweet, too-good-to-be-true townsfolk.

Rare Beasts is about the twins, Edgar and Ellen, who live alone in a dilapidated mansion on the edge of the town, Nod's Limbs.

His book, Nod's Limbs, is the only one not published in the UK or Australia. Upon contacting the company that drives his books, Star Farm Productions (out of Chicago), say he is currently on Sabbatical in the Amazon with his type writer and a net (one of his many hobbies includes collecting rare bugs).

Apparently, he’s been to both the North and South poles, and Poland. It is stated that he is an avid camper and fisherman who loves to travel. The illustrator for the series is Rick Carton of Chicago, Illinois. The pen name is credited with nine books (with a tenth upcoming), published by both Tricycle Press, and more recently, Simon & Schuster. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭharles Ogden is a pen name used by a collection of authors at Star Farm Productions for the Edgar & Ellen book series for children and young adults. ( July 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.
