Also by L. Bob Rovetch: Hot Dog and Bob and the Seriously Scary Attack of the Evil Alien Pizza Person: Adventure #1   Hot Dog and Bob and the Particularly Pesky Attack of the Pencil People: Adventure #2 by L. Bob Rovetch, illustrated by Dave Whamond Ages 6-10 96 pages Chronicle Books June 2006 Paperback     Bob and Clementine are the only people at Lugenheimer Elementary who remember the invasion of the evil alien pizza person Cheese Face, and the only two who remember the role superhero Hot Dog played in defeating that mozzarella-dripping villain (by wielding a certain Chinese take-out order). So when Hot Dog reappears in his lunchbox, Bob is justifiably apprehensive that he's got trouble. Just what kind of trouble becomes clear - or smudgy - during Miss Lamphead's spelling quiz when instead of writing "boysenberry" and "history" and "invitation", Bob's wayward pencil takes on a mind of its own and scribbles instead "BE AFRAID HUMANS! PREPARE TO BE ERASED!" When Bob turns the pencil over to erase the errant words, the rubber end oozes slime instead. Bob sneaks off to the janitor's closet to talk to Hot Dog, who tells him that The Scribbler, the leader of the Pencil Snatchers gang from Planet Pencilvania, has dastardly plan for the Earth and all its pencils. Indeed, The Scribbler and his gang are artists, and they need a blank canvas on which to draw - that means erasing everything and everyone on the planet. Thwarting the pencil plot will require an inventive combination of Purple Blast soda, kazoo music, Clementine's peanut butter-banana-avocado-red pepper-onion-ham-chocolate chip-cream cheese-raisin-alfalfa sprout-and-extra hot horseradish-on-rye sandwich, and the timely passing of some gas. What reluctant 6- to 10-year-old reader can resist that?     web reviews   Sharon Schulz-Elsing/2006 for curled up with a good kid's book   For grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (www.curledup.com)