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Loading... Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables (1998)by Jon Scieszka
None. Another great one from Jon Scieszka! In this book he has decided to rewrite the famous Aesop's Fables through the eyes of a young student who had figured out that you can talk about other people all you want as long as you change their name to an animal and find a lesson in the story. So that is what he did. I thought this book was very funny and can see children finding the humor quickly. The scenarios presented are very relatable and the "morals" are kind of like advice for surviving middle school. (  ) KellyLPickett | Apr 26, 2013 |  Z loves this . . . me less so, if for no other reason that some of the language is super snarky. (  ) beckydj | Mar 30, 2013 | Extremely clever fables that kids actually enjoy reading. ( ) DiamondDog | Mar 29, 2013 | Collection of fables that Aesop might have told if he were alive today. They have short fables with Morals at the bottom of each. I love the illustrations. One story about Skunk, Musk Ox and Cabbage were sitting in the front porch. Skunk smelt something. The moral of the story is He who smelt it, dealt it. other morals include "it takes one to know one" and "There are some things we don't talk about at the dinner table. I would pick and choose the stories to use. suarnawa1 | Mar 25, 2013 | Pages: 42 Reading Level: 6.1 I read this book to a 5 year old and found that the content was a liitle more mature than she was. I found myself having to explain the meaning of the revamped fables and how the morals had anything to do with the story (since many of them didn't..). This book is definately for older kids but has a few good pieces of advice for students. TamaraBronson | Jan 14, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 067088135X, Hardcover)Every once in a while a book crosses our desks that makes us sit quietly delighted--except for a few squeaks of unmitigated joy--and this oversized, energized, stylized, highly prized book of fables is one of them. Jon Scieszka has a simple philosophy of the fable: "If you can't say something nice about someone, change the guy's name to Donkey or Squid." After all, the alleged Aesop did it. Squids Will Be Squids offers lessons such as "Everyone knows frogs can't skateboard, but it's kind of sad that they believe everything they see on TV." Sure, it's goofy, but it's also saying to kids, "Don't believe everything you see on TV." In "Duckbilled Platypus vs. Beefsnakstick," the bragging platypus and his beefy buddy teach us "Just because you have a lot of stuff, don't think you're so special." Of course, there is nothing heavy-handed here--morals such as "He who smelt it, dealt it" and "Elephants never forget, except sometimes" satirically prance amid the more heartfelt snippets of sagacity.Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith are unparalleled in their eccentricity and unrelenting in their boyish, twisted-yet-innocent zeal. In co-creations from The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales to The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs to Math Curse, Scieszka's wacko sense of humor and Smith's quirky, always gorgeous artwork thrillingly congeal in Molly Leach's creative, exuberant design. We see many picture books that are better suited for adults than kids, but this fine specimen is truly meant for goofballs of all ages. (Click to see a sample spread. Illustration © 1998 Lane Smith, reproduced with permission of Viking, a division of Penguin Putnam.) (All ages) --Karin Snelson (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:49:59 -0500) Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials. |
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