Series: Dex Dingo
After a school assignment challenges Dex to be whatever he wants, Dex decides he wants to be the WORLDS BEST GREATEST EVERat something. Filled with clever humor and touching insight, this chapter book graphic novel series follows Dexs misadventures as his attempts at the coolest jobs go awry.Dex Dingo isnt the BEST at anything. Hes not the SMARTEST, the FUNNIEST, the STRONGEST, or the NICEST. But he wants to be the WORLDS BEST GREATEST EVERat something. So when Dexs teacher asks, If you could be anything when you grow up, what would you be, Dex decides that hes going to be the best at one of the best jobs ever.First on his list: an inventor! Dex is able to create an awesome lab and an amazing team of nanobots, but things immediately go wrong when the nanobots start to multiply and form a gray goo that threatens to take over his neighborhood. Itll take some quick thinking and a rogue nanobot named Nono for Dex to stop the nanobots, save his best friend, and become the WORLDS BEST GREATEST EVER INVENTOR.
About Artists & Writers:
Greg Foley didnt know what he wanted to be when he grew up. So he never really grew up. Just like Dex, hes always wanted to be the Worlds Best Great Ever at something. So he tries his best at being lots of different things like author, illustrator, designer, director, cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, teacher, inventor, and dad.Along the way Greg has received numerous honors including the Charlotte Zolotow Award, Art Directors Club Gold and Silver Awards, a Grammy nomination, a Guinness World Record, and his work has been exhibited at places like the MoMa, Centre Pompidou, New York Public Library, Yales Beinecke Library, and many more. Greg lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.