The Stupids die, another piece from the team of James Marshall and Harry Allard, tells how when the Stupids experience a power outage, they think they've died. It just occurred to me, while tagging this book, that it's rather difficult to come up with tags for this book--because nothing really happens. However, life with the Stupids is never dull, and in this visit with the Stupids, Grandfather Stupid reveals that the Stupids reside in Cleveland (but how much trust can we put in Grandpa's bearings?). This Stupids production makes its illustration style more transparent than in other Stupids books--colored pencil and marker, with ink outlines. The grain of the colored pencil is completely obvious here, which I hadn't noticed in other Stupids books. If there's extra cash in the budget that your library's trying to use, then add this to your collection. But if your funds are tapped out, well, then, you're not missing anything major. ( )

The Stupid’s Die is a book about a family. One day Mr. Stupid wakes up and she that something stupid is going to happen that day. The family goes through the whole day thinking that something is going to happen, but nothing does (at least for them). But everything that happens is “stupid”.

As a reader I found the book very entertaining. It is a comical book with comical illustrations. I like how this very un-average family thinks that everything that they do is normal.

As a teacher I could use this book to show what typical families do not do. This book is a perfect example of what not to do during the day. It can also be used to show my students that it is wrong to call people stupid. Just because someone does something different does not mean that they are stupid. ( )

When Mr. Stupid wakes up and says, “Something really stupid is going to happen today!”, you know it will. In this book the Stupids are up to their usual hijinks when a fuse blows. While the dog and cat fix it, the rest of the family thinks they’ve died. Luckily they figure out that they haven’t.

This is a book that can actually be used to stop children from calling one another stupid. You can explain that The Stupids are a fictional family- your classmate does not eat breakfast in the shower, therefore, he/she is not stupid, etc. ( )