"Knucklehead" was a book unlike any other memoir. It tells the story behind the author of the books from my childhood. For example, " The Stinky Cheese Man" to " The True Story of 3 Little Pigs". Jon Scieszka's books are all based on his life living with five brothers. Jon was the second oldest,...
When I saw this book on the shelf at the library, I couldn't resist picking it up. And when I saw it was by Jon Scieszka, I knew I'd have to bring it home with me. I'm sure many others from my generation will, like me, be immediately reminded of Strong Bad's "Everyone is Different." As funny a...
The best children's book I've read in ages. Loved it. Best for older kids, 7+, with no age limit upwards. Especially for kids 7+ who are tired of being spoken to as if they're 3. This is just fabulous - clever, fun, hilarious, exciting - it perfectly captures the creativity of young mind. I'm a h...
Michael K. has just entered fifth grade at his new school and he's trying so hard to convince himself that the day can't get any weirder. First he's stuck with a couple of serious oddballs, and then they try to convince him that they are aliens. It becomes even weirder, however, when he realizes ...
I was really disappointed in this new series by Jon Scieszka. I expected it to be really funny, but it was just silly. Michael is the new kid in 5th grade and he gets paired up with the other new kids which are actually aliens sent to earth to convert other kids into spaceheadz. And of course ...
Michael K.'s "friends", Bob and Jennifer, say that they are extraterrestrials. He could tell that they were extraterrestrials because Jennifer had eaten half of his pencil and Bob was wearing a pink shirt with the collar sticking up, a clip on tie, and a Dora the Explorer backpack. His "friends...
I was a little bummed that none of the websites mentioned in the book actually exist. The book was a little choppy but would be easily accessible for struggling readers. Some odd text features including 4 pages of nonsensical hamster language dialogue, pages of text with SPHDZ stamped all over ...
Robot Zot, the conqueror of worlds, the destroyer of lives, and well three inches tall. This pint sized Napoleon-esque has but mission, infiltrate the menacing, well equipped suburban kitchen. A battle of epic proportions with a toaster and TV ensue, but is soon awestruck with “Queen of all Ear...
Truckery Rhymes by Jon Scieska was a very fun book to read. The poems are all about trucks! They have the same rhythm as popular, well-known poems. Trucks are incorporated into each page. The majority of the poems were short and sweet only lasting a page or two. The illustrations popped off the p...
I like Jon Scieszka a lot, but this one didn't really do it for me. It's about a kid scientist who love science. I mean LOVES it. Wants to marry it, loves it. He creates? some self-assembling, learning robots and an incredible motor that runs on antimatter, but isn't very likable himself. Al...
The book Guys Read: Other Worlds edited by Jon Sciezka was a awesome sci-fi read read. I really enjoyed the concept of having multiple different stories in one book. Each one of them had their own connection to supernatural activity and had their own characters that interested me and intrigued me...
This one was honestly a struggle for me. I just don’t enjoy sports writing. That being said, these were really good short stories about sports. They had cute young guy characters, they had believable tension and resolution, there was a variety of sports (the basketball ones were the hardest for m...
A traditional tale is told from a new point of view in a fun book for elementary readers, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Jon Scieszka’s version of this well-known folktale gives the wolf a chance to tell his side of the story that left him with the reputation of ‘Big and Bad.’ Illust...
I had to admit, I was going to miss the weird, old guy. After hiking down the mountain for hours, Anna, Fred, and I found ourselves in a bamboo forest. “How are we supposed to find this battle, anyway?” I asked. “Does The Book say where it takes place?” WHOOSH! Out of nowhere, an arrow whizzed pa...
It all started with my birthday party. My two best friends, Fred and Sam, were over at my house. We were just sitting around the kitchen table doing birthday kinds of things. You know—eating junk, drinking soda, looking at the baseball my sister gave me. My mom started scooping up wrapping paper ...
Four. Then I count four down from the front of the line across from me. Rich Saxon. Thirty-five pounds heavier, a full second faster in the forty. The forty. Probably an hour faster in the hundred. I run a hundred yards in about the time it takes to get a haircut. If you’re third in line. Saxon i...
Fred and I slowly lowered Sam. The samurai grabbed the dark blue package roughly out of Sam’s shaking hands. More pointing with his sword and Japanese shouts moved the three of us into a line. “He’s going to try to take all three of our heads off in one swipe,” said Sam. “Let’s make a grab for Th...
It was just a week after the last time we travelled through time. And that was more than a thousand years before this time, which is a later time if you’re just reading this for the first time in your own time, which ... oh, forget it. Let me start one more time. Last week (my time), I got a birt...
Let me explain. My best friends Sam and Fred were hanging around at my house after school as usual. We were trying to finish some annoying math homework—very unusual. If it hadn’t been pouring rain, we’d have been long gone. “I’ve got a great idea,” said Sam. “I don’t need any great ideas,” said ...