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Welcome to the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School, where you will experience a week in the life of an exceptional group of characters. There's the principal, Miss Ingashoe, and her secretary, Ms. Cecelia Seeyalater; teachers Mr. Hugh da Mann and Mrs. Doremi Fasollatido; and students Abby Birthday, Sid Down, Viola Fuss, Dewey Haveto, and many more!
This heavily illustrated, full-color, fabulously designed young chapter book is a must-have, back-to-school title that chronicles the very simple story of Ron Faster--as he learns some important lessons about life--during his adventures on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in a most unusual school.
School! is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-4-Beginning with driver Mr. Stuckinaditch getting the school bus stuck (in a ditch of course) and a late pass signed by Ms. Seeyalater, this story recounts a silly, pun-filled week at school for middle-grader Ron Faster. A simple typeface and cartoon-style line drawings interspersed with the text keep it accessible for younger readers. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
"What did you learn at school today, son?" asks the mother of Ron Faster, just one of the off-kilter students at Harvey N. Trouble Elementary. "That's easy," Ron replies. "I learned that if fifty-six kids get together, it's bye-bye beanie weenies." If 30 Rock were set in an elementary school, one suspects it would resemble this loopy, breakneck comedy. Unfolding between Hotsy-Totsy Monday and Yowee-Ka-Zowee Friday, and peopled with characters named Hugh da Mann, Gladys Friday, and Iona Tricycle, McMullan's (the Dragon Slayers' Academy series) story, such as it is, manages to encompass an exploding volcano project, two janitors who keep resigning, a passel of blithely deranged teachers, and a bus driver who refuses to acknowledge his penchant for getting stuck in a ditch (" Stuck in a ditch?' asked a road worker. That's me,' said Mr. Ivan Stuckinaditch. Ben Diggin here,' said the road worker"). It's best not to think too much about plot and character development-just enjoy the ride and delight in the gemlike, maniacal Booth (Starlight Goes to Town) drawings that generously pepper the pages. Ages 6-9. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Nonstop puns and other wordplay (sometimes funny) reinforced by comical pen-and-ink drawings depict a week in the life of young Ron Faster. His schoolmates include Viola Fuss and Izzy Normal, all supervised by school personnel such as Ms. Celia Seeyalater and Mr. Hugh da Mann. Ron's adventures play second fiddle to a tangle of hit-or-miss witticisms. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A pun-filled week goes on about four-and-a-half days too long. Every morning, Ron Faster sprints to the road and boards the school bus. Given that the driver is Ivan Stuckinaditch, the bus promptly become stuck in...guess what...a ditch. Ron and the other kids, Viola Fuss, Izzy Normal and so on, get to school late. The principal, Miss Ingashoe, moves slowly because she's "missing something." Chuckie Upkins is always running to the bathroom, and Oopsie Spiller causes the daily resignations of Janitor Iquit and Assistant Janitor Quitoo. Over and over and over. The pattern changes on Friday, but readers likely won't care. Booth's tiny ink drawings busy up the pages with occasionally funny images, but they can't keep this one-joke scenario from being about 128 pages too long. (Humor. 7-11)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
New York Review of Books Review
Seventeen-year-old Cassel is at a definite disadvantage. We meet him as he's teetering on an icy rooftop at his boarding school, wearing only boxer shorts and with no memory of how he got there. But his real problem is that he comes from a family of "curse workers" and mobsters, and is haunted by nightmares about a white cat and a murdered friend. The action is occasionally confusing, but parts of the book, the first in a new series for Black, have the polish of a noir thriller. SCHOOL! Adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School. Written by Kate McMullan. Inspired and illustrated by George Booth. Feiwel & Friends. $12.99. (Ages 6 to 9) "School!" almost reels in a tornado of silly wordplay and fast-paced events, with students like Dewey Haveto and little Izzy Normal in a chorus of confusion. Booth's comical portraits look like cameos of his beloved New Yorker cartoons - the janitors Iquit and Quitoo, tossing their brooms aside, could have just stepped off one of those crowded country porches. THANKING THE MOON Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Written and illustrated by Grace Lin. Knopf. $16.99. (Ages 4 to 8) Glowing lanterns give cheerful punctuation to this evocative introduction to the Chinese harvest festival - this year, on Sept 22. According to notes in the back, "children, allowed to stay up late, parade with lanterns in the moonlight. The paper lanterns are usually round like the moon or have the shape of animals, like rabbits (a white rabbit is said to live on the moon)." Lin's deeply tinted gouaches make a nighttime picnic of mooncakes and round green fruits look especially magical. SPORK Written by Kyo Maclear. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Kids Can Press. $16.95. (Ages 3 to 7) Arsenault's expressive drawings of an unhappy spork are instantly winning. With all the advantages of spoon and fork, how could this fellow remain unloved? But he just doesn't fit in. (Some glowering forks, whispering and pointing, look like the mean kids in a school hallway.) The spork tries founding himself off with a hat, then makes himself "more forkish" with a crown - until he becomes the perfect foil for just the right small chubby hand. THE FANTASTIC SECRET OF OWEN JESTER By Barbara O'Connor. Frances Foster/Farrar, Strong & Giroux. $15.99. (Ages 8 to 12) Owen Jester should be having the time of his life: he's captured the "biggest, greenest, slimiest" bullfrog in Carter, Ga, and not only that, a mysterious crate that fell off a train nearby yielded an incredible find. But how to get the "Water Wonder 4000" down to the pond? And can his best friends stand the brainy know-it-all girl next door long enough to get her to help? O'Connor has perfect pitch in this comic adventure, which ends with a happy resolution everyone, even the frog, can live with. INSTRUCTIONS Written by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Charles Vess. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $14.99. (All ages) Like a more impish version of Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" Gaiman's book offers riddling advice that could be for young or old. The stern voice giving instructions also teases ("the 12 months sit about a fire, warming their feet, exchanging tales. They may do favors for you, if you are polite"), while Vess's fairy-tale landscape is an apt setting for the words of wisdom: "Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you are going" ; "Do not be jealous of your sister." JULIE JUST