Books with author Lane Scieszka

Free standard shipping - After reading this comical book, you too will fall victim to the math curse - the habit of viewing all aspects of your daily life in terms of a math problem. This story follows a girl as she begins to recognize the mathematics all around her, like if she has 30 minutes until the bus comes, but needs 10 minutes to get dressed, and another 10 to brush her teeth, will she make it to the bus on time? Guide your students through fun and functional word problems theyll want to solve with this captivating book. Hardcover, 32 pages. Grades 1-3.

Joe, Fred, and Sam have no idea why they?ve been transported to a playground. All they know is that there?s a 250-pound chicken and it?s headed straight for them. While Joe?s racking his brains for the magic words to stop a charging chicken, he suddenly has a flash of what?s going to happen next. It?s exactly like the book he just read. Turns out Fred put their summer reading list inside The Book (the magic one, that is)?and now they?re destined to spend their summer living stories that were only meant to be read. Only one thing is clear: writing a back-to-school book report will be no sweat.Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith also collaborated on Math Curse, The Stinky Cheese Man, and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.Jon Scieszka lives in Brooklyn, New York.Lane Smith lives in New York City.

Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables! With tales like "Little Walrus," in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary "Slug's Big Moment," wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and "Straw and Matches," which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection are sure to delight readers both young and old.