A different look at everyone's favourite fairy tales. It will appeal to children who have a basic grounding in fairy tales and will love seeing them revisited. With a wacky text and brilliant illustrations.
Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
Though the characters may be familiar, each of your favorite storybook fables is uproariously derailed in this adaptation of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's quintessential children's book of fractured fairy tales.
When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.
A series of short silly stories takes a humorous look at the activities of various members of the Hocky family.
Springtime is wonderful -- except for the gazillion blackflies and mosquitoes. But Helen has a plan . . .
New to the series, on the back of each image is a paragraph of lively text packed with facts about the dinosaur pictured, how it lived, and how to pronounce its name.
Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.
For use in schools and libraries only. After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.