2095 #5 (Time Warp Trio) [Paperback]

Jon Scieszka (Author), Lane Smith (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Time Warp Trio

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Gr. 3^-5. The Time Warp Trio is back--to the future, this time, as Joe, Fred, and Sam travel to the year 2095, again courtesy of Uncle Joe's magic book. Launching their trip from the 1920s room in the Natural History Museum, the boys arrive in the future's museum, where they see the 1990s showcased in an exhibit of the past. Such ironies of time travel abound as the three encounter their great-grandchildren, who rightly strive to return their ancestors to the past. Scieszka writes with a kid's perspective at all times, blending a warp-speed pace with humor that ranges from brainy riddles to low brow upchuck jokes. Although the plot is a bit thin and meandering, readers will find sufficient distraction in the robots and levitation footwear of the future. Smith targets the audience equally well with black pencil illustrations brimming with zany, adolescent hyperbole. Julie Yates Walton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

[The Time Warp Trio’s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. (School Library Journal, starred review)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (April 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0142400440
• ISBN-13: 978-0142400449
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators, A-Z > ( S ) > Scieszka, Jon

More About the Author

Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan on September 8th, 1954. He grew up with five brothers, has the same birthday as Peter Sellers and the Virgin Mary, and a sneaking suspicion that the characters in his Dick and Jane reader were not of this world. Those plain facts, plus his elementary school principal dad, Louis, his registered nurse mom, Shirley (who once took Jon's Cub Scout den on a field trip to the prenatal ward), Mad Magazine, four years of pre-med undergrad, "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University, Robert Benchley, five years of painting apartments in New York City, his lovely wife Jeri Hansen who introduced him to Molly Leach and Lane Smith, Green Eggs and Ham, his teenage daughter Casey and almost teenage son Jake, ten years of teaching a little bit of everything from first grade to eighth grade, and the last twenty years of living in Brooklyn...are just some of Jon's answers to the questions, "Where do you get your ideas?" and/or "How did you become a writer?" I don't know, just because, none of your beeswax, and flapdoodle poppycock and balderdash are some more of Jon's answers to questions you can imagine on your own. Jon met up with Lane Smith around 1986 or so, and nothing has been the same since. Their first book, the wiseguy fairy tale retelling, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! was initially rejected by most publishers as "too weird" and "too sophisticated". Published by Viking in 1989, The True Story has now sold over a million copies, been translated into ten languages, and been called a "classic picture book for all ages". Jon and Lane's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) took the world of the picture book a few steps further. Goofing with the conventions of fairy tales and even being a book, The Stinky Cheese Man became a household word, sold another mess of copies in multiple languages, offended a few purists, and still managed to win a Caldecott Honor medal. Math Curse (1995) further stretched the notion of what subjects make good picture books, selling more books faster than either 3 Little Pigs or Stinky Cheese, and winning a whole slew of awards --all for a book full of mathematics.More recently, Jon and Lane have resurrected fables (in the smart, funny, and a little bit wicked way Aesop would have wanted them) in their latest collaboration, Squids Will Be Squids (1998). No telling where they might take the picture book next. Someone once wrote, "Jon Scieszka has forever changed the face of children's literature." And while there is still some confusion over exactly who that someone was, and whether children's literature does, in fact, have a face, most would agree-from The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! to Squids Will Be Squids, since Scieszka put pen to paper, children's literature sure has been...different.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very, Very Funny. A very good book., November 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 2095 (Time Warp Trio) (Paperback)

I liked the book because it is interesting how Joe, Sam and Fred travel through time. They open a magical book. then they travel through time. They have a lot of exciting adventures. They always try to avoid opening the book but somehow they always end up opening it. John Scieszka also wrote other interesting books like the "Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid Tales." In that book he spoofs fairy tales. I have read most of his books. This one, in my opinion, is the most interesting of his books. His books are witty and sarcastic.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Adventure in the Future!, February 17, 2000

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A Third Grade Student (Palatine, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2095 (Time Warp Trio) (Paperback)

The Time Warp Trio are at it again! This was a GREAT book! I usually don't like science fiction books but I really liked this book. The Time Warp Trio are in the future. Everything is different and things from now are old-fashioned. Pencils are actually antiques! I would recommend this book to readers ages 5-8 years old.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TIME WARP TRIO TRAVEL FAR FAR IN THE FUTURE!, January 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 2095 (Time Warp Trio) (Paperback)

This book was great! This is the only book where the Time WARP Trio travel forward in time. I liked the way that the authors described the future. I also thought it was funny because the Time WARP Trio meet their grand-grand-daughters. I won't tell any more because you'll just have to read it to yourself. I rate this book five stars because it was funny like all the other Time WARP Trio books.