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Title: Baloney (Henry P.) by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith ISBN: 0-670-89248-3 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: late again
Comment: Baloney by Jon scieszcka is an educational and a fun book! It is funny how he makes up things to get out of trouble! He goes to different places like the planet unlucky. It's educational because it uses different languages and translates them. A main event in the story is when he plugs the laser with his pencil. You should read this book; the setting took place in space. To me it's a great book
Rating: 5
Summary: Jabberwocky variant
Comment: This book tells about a little boy who is late for school. When the teacher asks him for his excuse, the boy comes up with a whopper of a tale full of some very strange words. Some of the words are almost familiar, while others sound like they are from outer space. That is, if you don't know Latvian, Finnish, or Inuqtitut, since each of the words is a real world from some language of the world. Despite the strangeness of the words, the story is perfectly understandable due to the excellent illustrations. The book includes a glossary at the back, explaining the source and meaning of each of the strange words. The book is not scary at all, and it is good fun, especially for boys. It contains about 500 words.
Rating: 1
Summary: a dog that won't hunt
Comment: I was saddened when I did not like Baloney, Henry P. I have come to expect so much from John Scieszka and Lane Smith. I hoped that a book about an alien student trying to explain what happened to his homework (especially when the story begins with the alien child being abducted by other aliens) would be a great platform to showcase the talents of this team. It sadly has not proved so.
Baloney, Henry P. suffers from both poor illustrations and a lack of humor. The plot line is forced rather than well laid out. These are aberrations in the work of Scieszka/Smith.
In the interests of not judging others too harshly (lest I, as a result, am left without excuse) I must point out that the sheer invention and novelty of this book makes it worth reading at least once. The basis for my extremely low rating is that this book is not even close to being up to par with the other work of Scieszka and Smith. It isn't even in the same league as works like The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.
Unless you are a big fan of Scieszka and Smith, I recommend that you look somewhere else (the aforementioned books or Math Curse). Baloney, Henry P. is not their best.
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Title: The Book That Jack Wrote by Jon Scieszka, Daniel Adel ISBN: 067084330X Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Molly Leach ISBN: 067088135X Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka, Steve Johnson ISBN: 014054285X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith ISBN: 0670035696 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith ISBN: 0670861944 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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