Mister Browser and the sharpeners

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" Mister Browser und die Gripsanspitzer " is the title of the first volume of a four-part book series by the English children's book author Philip Curtis (* 1920). The English original edition ( English Mister Browser and the Brain Sharpeners ) was first published in 1983 by Andersen Press Ltd., London. In 1991 the German text version was published by the ESTE publishing house in Buxtehude , with Alexander Schmitz acting as translator. The envelope design is from Claus-J using a drawing by Tony Ross. Pit. The other illustrations are also by Tony Ross .

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The total of four books cover a period of four years, with the plot only partially building on one another. The three 'Gripsanspitzer' works are to be separated from the book 'Mister Browser und die Minimeteoriten', which also describes the same people and places, but makes no reference to the events of the other books. The books are published chronologically as follows:

Mister Browser and the sharpeners

Mister Browser, a common comprehensive school teacher at Chivvy Chase School in England, makes the fateful remark in class that a brain sharpener would certainly not harm his class. Then one day the aliens of the same name appear on the school grounds (sports field) and kidnap the entire class 4b and their teacher with the help of a spaceship in the shape of a salt shaker. They manipulate the brains of the children and their teachers in an initially beneficial way, so that soon there is a neat working atmosphere in Mister Browser's class and the performance of the students soars. This goes well until a student reveals the secret of the smart sharpener and gets on board the spaceship undetected.

Mister Browser and the mini meteorites

On a school trip to the beach, Simon 'Spiky' Jackson finds a metallic, plane-shaped object in the form of two pyramids that are welded together on their bases. This 'mini meteorite' releases a so-called 'happiness bubble' when Jackson tries to find out what this unnatural object is for during class. As a result, the pupils feel noticeably better inside the bladder, but the feelings of happiness abruptly decrease as soon as you step through the invisible membrane of the happiness bubble. Jackson soon notices this, but he's not the only one following the trail of the mini-meteorites. As a result, he finds more of these objects, is kidnapped by a foreign professor who has contact with those responsible for the dropping of the mini-meteorites over the sea and finally lures him to the beach in a trap, where the malevolent professor can be convicted. With the help of his classmates and Mister Browser as well as his colleague Mister Caracco, the researcher is stopped: he intended to make the world docile with the help of the alien artifacts, since he alone has an effective antidote available.

The revenge of the sharpeners

The events in this book act four years after those in the first two books, the students are now in the eighth grade; the students are still the same, and Mister Browser is still teaching. The smart people continue to pursue their plan to take control of the class, and so they kidnap their director Mister Salt, who is supposed to organize a school trip to Pakistan for class 8 of Mister Browser. The class falls into the trap, but can defend itself with the help of an old servant browser and escape.

The smart sharpeners strike

At the request of a school board member (Jolyon Morten), class 8 and Mister Browser found a school choir that is to compete in a district competition in a few months. But one day the choir and their teachers are kidnapped, and those responsible for this are again the brain-sharpeners in their salt-shaker-shaped spaceship. Alerted by a radioactive missile that flies dangerously close to their secret base near the earth, the brain sharpeners perceive this as a danger and act. Through the school choir they want to send a warning to the earth: if nuclear weapons and missiles like the one mentioned above continue to exist, they would be forced to take drastic measures and subjugate the world. After the search for the children and their teacher has been desperate but unsuccessful, children are spotted all over England who sing songs like 'Yellow Bird' or 'The Skye Boat Song' and seem to float in the air. Using their superior technology, the brain-sharpeners project the choir onto the earth in 3D and soon force them to sing their own song. In the song, the warning of the brain-sharpeners and the request to abolish nuclear weapons and missiles is clear. In the end, Mister Browser, who has meanwhile fallen ill, is brought to earth together with Simon Jackson, where the teacher is operated on and Jackson is used to alert doctors beforehand. Mister Sage, overwhelmed by the situation, keeps him hidden while a brain-sharpener tries to reach an agreement with the British politicians. At first this plan fails, but in the end a rocket with a notice of surrender is sent in the direction of the brain sharpener base and the brain sharpener leader, who bring the choir and their teachers (in the meantime Mister Caracco has been kidnapped as a replacement for Mister Browser) to the competition in time, which is also done with the help of the brain sharpener song is won.

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