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Beware of . . . this school?! Henry is taking his new classmate on a whirlwind tour of their school. Mysterious inventions lurk, the cafeteria requires ninja skills, and some teachers may be monsters! Is this fantastical school to be believed? Or is there an even more outrageous surprise in store? Celebrated international author-illustrator team Davide Cali and Benjamin Chaud—the duo behind Junior Library Guild selections I Didn't Do My Homework Because . . . and The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer . . . —are back with yet another rollicking tale about truth, lies, and . . . school!

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ISBN-13:	9781452155944
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	06/26/2018
Series:	A Funny Thing Happened Series
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Benjamin Chaud has illustrated more than 60 books. He is the illustrator of I Didn't Do My Homework Because . . . , A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School . . . , The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer . . . , and A Funny Thing Happened at the Museum. . . . He is the author and illustrator of the New York Times Notable Book The Bear's Song, The Bear's Sea Escape, The Bear's Surprise, and Farewell Floppy. He lives in Die, France.

Davide Cali is the author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School . . . , The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer . . . , A Funny Thing Happened at the Museum . . . , When An Elephant Falls in Love, and I Didn't Do My Homework Because . . . , for which there are 21 international editions to date. He lives in France and Italy.

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"Readers may wish their own schools looked more like this one." -Kirkus Reviews

"Readers may wish their own schools looked more like this one." -Kirkus Reviews

"A stylish ode to a school that's too odd to be true (probably)." —The Virginian-Pilot

"A stylish ode to a school that's too odd to be true (probably)." —The Virginian-Pilot

"Part interactive story, part memory game." —Learning Magazine

"Part interactive story, part memory game." —Learning Magazine

"Overflows with clever details and hints of the story's surprise ending.. Henry's adventures blur the line between imagination and reality, and kids will willingly believe in his escapades." -Booklist

"Overflows with clever details and hints of the story's surprise ending.. Henry's adventures blur the line between imagination and reality, and kids will willingly believe in his escapades." -Booklist

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2018-05-14
Henry, the dapper lad in the black suit with the unruly hair, makes another appearance in Cali and Chaud's (A Funny Thing Happened at the Museum…, 2017, etc.) latest collaboration, this time showing a new student the highlights of their titular school. While the new girl seems rather unimpressed, readers may raise an eyebrow or two at the class pet (a ginormous jellyfish), the music teacher—a Las Vegas-era Elvis look-alike with an electric guitar—or the tentacles escaping from behind a hallway door, two students and a dog caught in their grasp. Surely, though, they will thrill at the "shortcut" to recess and its attendant delights, which include swings, a slide, a Ferris wheel, treehouses, and a roller coaster, all up high in the branches of a single tree. In nods to The Wizard of Oz film and Harry Potter, the janitor sits behind a curtain watching and controlling everything, and the office of the magical principal is reached by rowboat that plies a basement river beyond a sleeping dragon. The ending scene explains the new girl's blasé attitude, but once read, the surprise is gone. Chaud's delicate lines and muted colors give the illustrations a bit of a Victorian Gothic feel, and the antics of Henry's dog are amusing. The students and teachers are diverse, though both Henry and the new girl are white. Readers may wish their own schools looked more like this one, maybe minus the swimming instructor and the mashed-potato machine…. (Picture book. 5-8)

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