By the next morning the child has broken the maths curse and can face any problem. And don't call her a him amoeba. Or never he a she amoeba. What if a boring lesson about the food chain becomes a sing-aloud celebration about predators and prey?
A twinkle-twinkle little star transforms into a twinkle-less, sunshine-eating-and rhyming Black Hole? What if amoebas, combustion, metamorphosis, viruses, the creation of the universe are all irresistible, laugh-out-loud poetry?
Well, you're thinking in science verse, that's what. And if you can't stop the rhymes. Only the amazing talents of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, the team who created Math Curse, could make science so much fun. Son of Louis and Shirley Scieszka. Bachelor in Writing, Albion College, Michigan, Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, Founder nonprofit literature organization Guys Read. Congress, — Jon Scieszka has been listed as a notable children"s author by Marquis Who's Who.
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They take away the sense of easy familiarity and boredom that sometimes surrounds modern perceptions of the fairy tale genre. The fact that Scieszka's parody plays to a more mature audience has surprised some critics. His works—sold as picture books intended for beginning readers—are equally funny to older children and young adults who have grown beyond the picture-book stage and are used to sophisticated humor.
In doing this he follows the pioneering examples of other great writers in children's literature, such as L. Frank Baum, E. Nesbit, and Dr. Scieszka was a jokester early in life; he once told another Publishers Weekly interviewer, Leonard S. Marcus, that he was "a stealth kid," making his friends laugh in class while he maintained an impassive, innocent expression.
Scieszka eventually attended Columbia University and studied writing there. He intended, Smith related in her article, to "write the Great American novel. He remarked that it was surprising he hadn't thought of writing for children sooner, since he came from a large family, had always loved children, was the son of an elementary school teacher, and had enjoyed being a teacher himself.
Scieszka met author and illustrator Lane Smith in the late s through the women in their lives; Scieszka's wife, Jerilyn Hansen, was friends with Smith's girlfriend, Molly Leach, who later became Smith's wife and has designed several of the Scieszka-Smith books. Scieszka took a sabbatical from teaching and began to develop book ideas with Smith.
That became a curse word—the 'S' word. They're just getting those reading skills and nothing cracks them up like a joke that turns stuff upside down. Wolf "Call me Al". Wolf has, he believes, been framed for the deaths of two of the three little pigs. This "revisionist 'autobiography,'" as Stephanie Zvirin called it in her Booklist interview with Scieszka and Lane Smith, presents the familiar story from a different aspect.
Well I huffed. And I snuffed. And I sneezed a great sneeze. And do you know what? That whole darn straw house fell down. Al maintains his innocence, as Kimberly Olson Fakih and Diane Roback reported in Publishers Weekly, by implying "that had the first two [pigs] happened to build more durable homes and the third kept a civil tongue in his head, the wolf's helpless sneezes wouldn't have toppled them.
Wolf, 'folks would probably think you were Big and Bad, too. There is a sly contrast between Scieszka's "innocent wolf" narrator and Lane Smith's sometimes morally ambiguous pictures. Alexander's grandmother, noted Sutton, "looks a bit all-the-better-to- eat -you-with herself, and is that a pair of bunny ears poking out of the cake batter?
We have to take the wolf's word for their demise. The reader's final view of Alexander shows him, older, behind bars, and dressed in a convict's uniform, still trying to borrow that cup of sugar.
As the title indicates, it takes up the story of The Frog Prince and traces it through its traditional happily-ever-after ending. It seems that the disenchanted Prince and his Princess are not well matched. He misses the pond; she's tired of him sticking out his tongue and hopping on the furniture.
He encounters several witches and magic makers from other fairy tales, but none of them has the power to resolve the situation. Burns in Horn Book, "Scieszka's tale is a sophisticated variant on traditional themes; it has a wry, adult perspective and yet is accessible to younger readers who enjoy—and understand—the art of parody and lampoon.
Even the title character has a twist; unlike the more famous Gingerbread Man, the Stinky Cheese Man is avoided by everyone. Finally, an editor at Viking Books said she thought the story and the illustrations were funny. She said she would publish the book. Over the last 19 years, Jon and Lane have worked together on 8 picture books and 8 Time Warps.
Lane's wife Molly Leach has designed all of their picture books. Jon's books have won a whole mess of awards, and sold over 11 million copies all around the world.
Jon is now working on a giant pre-school publishing program called Trucktown. It's a world where all pf the characters are trucks.
And all of the trucks act like real preschoolers-loud and crazy and wild and funny. Jon still lives in Brooklyn with his wife Jeri. They have two children, a daughter Casey, and son Jake. Jon Scieszka. His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse. Source:Jon Scieszka Worldwide Website.
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