Sideways Stories from Wayside School [Paperback]

Louis Sachar (Author), Julie Brinckloe (Illustrator), Lionel Wilson (Narrator)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Listening Library; Pap/Cas edition (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807274011
• ISBN-13: 978-0807274019
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (150 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,974,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have read this a million times and just gets funnier!, May 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Paperback)

This book was first read to me in the first grade. I am now in 8th, and have read it at least a million times. It is a hillarious book that can help kids see how everyone is different. Besides that, it's just so darn funny. I have read many books by Louis Sachar, and in my opinion he is the best author ever.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Funny, November 6, 2006

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Jane Doe "iluvmybaby" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Paperback)

I am an adult and I really enjoyed this book. It is basically a quirky book with a very short story for each of the students in one particular class, plus the two teachers. (The first teacher is mean and comes to a funny demise.) So there are thirty short stories.

It is silly humor. For example, the mean teacher turns the students into apples, a girl tries to sell her toes (unsuccessfully), a dead rat disguises itself as a student, and so on.

Warning: The humor is black humor, but hilarious. So you may want to pre-read this book to see if it is appropriate for your child. But despite being black humor, everything ends well and for the best, sort of like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Junie B. Jones. This is not a "sweet" book, but it is fun!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, Funny..., July 4, 2001

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three60roundhouse - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Paperback)

It opens with children-turned apples turning their teacher, Mrs. Gorf, into an apple and giving her to their gym teacher, Louis (the author) to eat.

Need I say more?

This book is hilarious. I could just see kids I know going to a school thirty stories tall, with a classroom on each side, struggling through torturous mosquito bites, a teacher who thinks you're a monkey, and all sorts of kooky and downright hilarious characters. I could read this over and over. It is so realistic, yet oh so spacy.

I first read this book when I was about seven or eight. I have read it over and over with each of my five younger siblings and it gets funnier each time. Sachar has a way of appealing to all audiences.

Parents, the Wayside school series is the easiest way to get boob-tube obsessed kids to read a good book for a change.

And it is a good book!