This hilarious cumulative tale in the tradition of "The House That Jack Built" depicts a typical day at school. This is the teacher all ready for school. These are the students who rush through the door and topple the teacher all ready for school. The chaos continues—and accumulates—on each spread. An ant farm is tipped over, the birthday boy slips and spills his cupcakes, and then the class hamster escapes. . . . Through it all, the stalwart teacher manages to keep her cool. But, boy, is she ready for bed at the end of the day!
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Kindergarten-Grade 3–This cumulative tale à la "The House That Jack Built" details the escapades of a lively group of students. The show-and-tell snake escapes, birthday cupcakes topple, the ant farm breaks, a kamikaze bee attacks, a clogged water fountain floods the hall–and that's not all. Watercolor washes over thick black lines depict the chaos of this classroom gone amok. Splotches and spills abound, enhanced by the sketchy quality of the art; the energetic lines of Lester's cartoons capture the vibrant action. A rhyming couplet introduces each new incident and is followed by rhythmic phrases that emphasize onomatopoeia. With "splats," "eeks," "whacks," and "plops," disasters mount until lunchtime. Then the catastrophes begin anew. On the last page, the poor teacher, harried and exhausted, flops into bed at the end of the day. The story is sure to elicit giggles from the early elementary set and perhaps a bit of sympathy for their teachers as well.–Laurie Edwards, West Shore School District, Camp Hill, PA
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K-Gr. 3. A progressively chaotic day in school and a cumulative text provide mayhem and humor here. "This is the teacher all ready for school" begins the narrative, which shows a smiling teacher totally unprepared for what comes next: she's toppled when students rush through the door, then ants escape, birthday cupcakes fly, books tumble, baseballs go off course, and--eek!--a hamster escapes. By day's end, it's the children who are smiling; the teacher is at home, sprawled in bed. Lengthy and text-dense, the story will be a challenge for the younger set, but descriptive text blocks, each beginning with a rhyming couplet and incorporating sound effects, capture the chaos set around Lester's page-filling caricatures. The pictures are a riot of color and burst with motion and exaggerated details; there's also a seek-and-find hamster. Kids will enjoy the wackiness of familiar school objects and activities gone wild. Shelle Rosenfeld
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a new favorite for first day of school,
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This story makes my favories list for several reasons. The story told in rhyme and the collorful action filled illustrations make it hold kids attention better than the old favorite of Miss Nelson is Missing. It also portrays a day where everything goes wrong for the teacher, a grown up version of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
All teachers should read this book :)
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Cute story!,
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Some pages flowed better than others, but overall this was a good addition to our "This is the House that Jack Built" collection.
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