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Books with author Jim Benton

  • Robot Kitties

    Jim Benton

    Board book (Cartwheel Books, Jan. 6, 2015)
    Jim Benton brings on the humor in a brand-new line of board books!Follow mechanical cats up, down, and all around in Robot Kitties!Robot kitties everywhere!They're on the ground. They're in the air.They're flying low. They're flying high,some far away, and some nearby.Jim Benton, the international bestselling author and illustrator of Dear Dumb Diary, presents a clever, rollicking new board book program that will leave toddlers wide-eyed and laughing. Fans of Sandra Boynton will rejoice in this fresh line of funny stories!Each board book features: - Hilarious stories based on early concepts - Endearing characters- Young, bold, colorful artwork
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  • My Pants Are Haunted!

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 1, 2013)
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  • It's Happy Bunny #1: Love Bites

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 1, 2005)
    It's all about the bunny. Deal with it.Happy Bunny presents the ideal gift book for those sick of the sickeningly sweet.Love. It's just like hate, but somebody gets candy.So, you've made the mistake of falling in love. Let Happy Bunny be your guide as you wade through the whole stupid love thing--from crush to crash, from hook-up to break-up, from going out to going insane. Happy Bunny knows how you feel. It just doesn't care. Inside this funny full-color gift book, you'll find tips on dating, crushes, & secret admirers from a bunny with attitude. BONUS FUN: Quizzes; Games; LOVE MAZE; Fill-in-the-blank break-up letterTrue love lasts forever, or until something better comes along.
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  • Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Scholastic Press, June 28, 2016)
    Jamie Kelly is back and dumber than ever in this super-deluxe four-color Dear Dumb Diary special edition! Life at Mackerel Middle School is as dumb as ever -- but Jamie Kelly may have finally found the key to fame, fortune, and fabulousness. Together with Isabella and Angeline, she's come up with a moneymaking idea, and it has to do with food. Everyone likes food! They're going to be rich! The only problem? They have to come up with something that people actually want to eat. Jamie has some sophisticated thoughts on food, like, "She was manipulating us like dough. Like the sweet, delicious dough that we are. And she was baking us into the type of delicious cookies you can only get from dough like us. And she was putting sprinkles of us on top of us, and -- forget it. I'm hungry. I want some cookies." This is sure to go well.
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  • Dear Dumb Diary Year Two #6: Live Each Day to the Dumbest

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 26, 2015)
    The hilarious and bestselling series from Jim Benton continues!It's not easy being a middle-schooler, and nobody knows that better than Jamie Kelly. There are surprises around every corner: some good, some bad, all dumb. But when Jamie inherits a trunk of her grandmother's things, she never expects to find the biggest surprise of all -- Grandma's diary.Violating the privacy of a diary is something Jamie would never do . . . unless she was absolutely certain that she wanted to do it.And when she does, she learns that, deep down, everyone is exactly the same. Dumb.Jamie still has no idea that anyone is reading her diary, so please, please, please don't tell her. And definitely don't tell her that she's the star of her very own Dear Dumb Diary movie, available on DVD. (Her glamorous ego might not be able to handle it.)
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  • Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 2011)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As their school gets ready for the annual Fun Fair, Jamie and Isabella agree to compete in the bottle toss game and to terrible consequences for the loser.
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  • Dear Dumb Diary,: A Triple Scoop of Rage With Giggle Sprinkles

    Jim Benton

    Paperback (Scholastic, May 1, 2008)
    Three hilarious Jamie Kelly diaries in one sidesplitting collection --- who could resist?Sneak a peek inside the diary of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything she writes is true . . . or at least as true as it needs to be.This TRIPLE SCOOP OF RAGE WITH GIGGLE SPRINKLES includes these three Jamie Kelly diaries:#1: Let's Pretend This Never Happened#2: My Pants are Haunted!#3: Am I the Princess or the Frog?
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  • Frantastic Voyage

    Jim Benton

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!Franny’s faithful Lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For a regular scientist, it might seem like there’s only one way to get the device out—um...make that two ways. But Franny K. Stein is no ordinary scientist, so she concocts her own way to get the device back and save her friend. With her miniaturization machine, Franny shrinks herself to the size of a pin and goes on a field trip like no other...through the body of a ticking time-dog! Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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  • That's What Friends Aren't For

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 2010)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jamie Kelly and BFF Isabella have finally decided that bondwad Angline isn't totally terrible. She might even be okay to hang out with now and then. But a girl group of three means someone is always the odd girl out.
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  • The Worst Things In Life Are Also Free

    Jim Benton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, June 1, 2010)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. It is summer vacation, and Jamie, Angeline, and Isabella need money so that they can go to Screamotopia Amusement Park, but none of their money-making schemes are very profitable.
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  • Piggy Paints

    Jim Benton

    Board book (Cartwheel Books, Jan. 6, 2015)
    Jim Benton brings on the humor in a brand-new line of board books!In Piggy Paints, one adorable pig spends his day painting pictures big and little!Piggy paints big. Piggy paints little.Piggy paints pigs with a kitty in the middle.Piggy paints little. Piggy paints big.Piggy paints a pretty little polka-dot pig.Jim Benton, the international bestselling author and illustrator of Dear Dumb Diary, presents a clever, rollicking new board book program that will leave toddlers wide-eyed and laughing. Fans of Sandra Boynton will rejoice in this fresh line of funny stories!Each board book features: - Hilarious stories based on early concepts - Endearing characters- Young, bold, colorful artwork
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