Boo! [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Canada, Limited
• ISBN-10: 0439961262
• ISBN-13: 978-0439961264
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,798,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Munsch is the author of more than 25 books for children including The Paper Bag Princes and Stephanie's Ponytail. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied to be a Jesuit priest before deciding to work with children instead. He taught in a variety of nursery schools and daycare centers while he earned an MA in Early Childhood Education. In 1975, Munsch and his wife, Ann, moved to Guelph, Ontario. The Munschs have three children: Julie, Andrew, and Tyya (see them all in Something Good!).

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3rd grader, January 5, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Boo! (Paperback)

I love your book your other books to i wish i could write like you its AMAZING! how you write. I love reading your books.





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Blake Rinckey

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars perhaps the book for you, September 29, 2010

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mark twain - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boo! (Paperback)

If you feel uncomfortable overtly instructing your preschooler on how to be prejudice, yet you still want to instill in them a good dose of institutional racism, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!

Firstly...you don't have to even mention that the main character is a minority. According to some research, your child will AUTOMATICALLY pick up the difference in ethnicity and begin to categorize him as different [...]. Young children love to learn and categorize and try to figure the world out. What are we like? What are they like? This book will help!

Next comes the magic of the book. The story has a minority doing many things that you tell your child are bad or wrong. Some examples include; A passed out father figure, hurting strangers, stealing all a stranger's Halloween candy, robbing other items from their homes, and scaring and not respecting a police officer. Congratulations! Because of institutional racism, you have been able to guess the ethnicity of the main character....and after reading the book, your child will be able to also!

Bingo... no direct instruction on your part necessary. What could be easier? Your preschooler will easily be guided and helped to come to their OWN conclusions about how people of a specific different ethnicity act.

If this sounds like your kind of book, write the author. Perhaps he can be convinced to write about least 3 other minority heroes so your child's education can be complete.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book doesn't even deserve 1 star!, April 20, 2007

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Bookworms (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boo! (Paperback)

The description in the book order made this sound like it would be a fun book but the first time I read it, I was horrified by the bad values that the book teaches. After the kid scares everyone into passing out, he takes their bags of candy, but he doesn't stop there. He actually goes into someone's house and takes all the candy on the table, but he doesn't stop there either. He goes to their refrigerator and takes everything from it too. Not only does the book condone stealing, but it wasn't even funny either. I expected it to be amusing, but really it was just plain stupid. If you were considering buying this book, don't.