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17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore (2007)

by Jenny Offill

Series: 17 Things (1)

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This story is full of great illustrations and a wonderful moral. The book doesn't speak to it's medium but in looking closely we can see clearly it is a multi-medium format. The girl in the story tells of all the things that she is no longer allowed to do. The one thing that she is allowed to do is to say the opposite of what she means. Mainly what she is allowed to say is "I'm sorry."
Moral: Things we shouldn't do, Classroom use: if used in a positive way, it could inspire a collection of things we do not do in class. That could inspire things to get out of hand though.

huertaen | May 5, 2013 |

This book made all of us giggle. I was reading it with a big sister and a little brother, so they identified with the storyline. The big sister gets into all sorts of trouble with her great ideas. I especially liked when she stapled her brother's hair to the pillow- but all the mishaps were pretty hilarious. (

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satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |

This book is hysterical. (

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amaraduende | Mar 30, 2013 |

How funny is this book. A mischievous little girl who does all these ideas but is banded from it because it is wrong. The illustrations are great and funny. I like her beaver report it was quite amusing. In the end it showed that through all her troubles she learns to do the opposite and apologize for what she has done. Maybe...

Lourraine | Mar 15, 2012 |

I have yet to read this book with a child who did not declare it to be the best book ever written. "17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore" is hilarious, filled with the type of jokes that kids enjoy and the sorts of things adults wish we had done as children (before we grew up and realized why we probably shouldn't). The illustrations are brilliant and really engage the reader in the humorous writing style(Nancy Carpenter is my favorite!). I definitely recommend this book. (

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17 Things (1)

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2007

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South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominee (2008-2009)

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For Theodora -- J.O.

For my cousin Geoff, who always made me laugh -- N.C.

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I had an idea to staple my brother's hair to his pillow.

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From stapling her brother's hair to the pillow to freezing a dead fly in the ice cube tray, the impish protagonist of 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore never rests. This unflappable mischief-maker leaves a trail of exasperated family members, teachers, and crossing guards in her wake, but somehow we suspect she will grow up just fine…as a brilliant writer or inventor, no doubt. Told in the first person, the book is simply a series of the girl's "ideas" ("I had an idea to do my George Washington report on beavers instead") and consequences ("I am not allowed to do reports on beavers anymore") One imagines the list growing infinitely longer and more absurd; setting limits on our heroine's activities clearly has no bearing on her future behavior or creativity.

Nancy Carpenter's illustrations, rendered in pen and ink and digital media on crumpled and emery-boarded paper (!) are the perfect foil to Jenny Offill's hilariously dry text. The cool-as-a-cucumber narrator simply reports--the illustrations and our own imagination fill in the blanks. Wonderful. --Emilie Coulter

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A young girl lists the sixteen things she is not allowed to do anymore, including not being able to make ice after freezing a fly in one of the cubes.