By John Dougherty
Amazon rating: 4.5/5, grades 3-7
Good Reads: 3.93/5
Common Sense Media: not reviewed
4Rbooks: 4/6, grades 3-6
131 pages
Synopsis:
Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face are brother and sister. They live on the island kingdom of The Great Kerfuffle, ruled by King Toothbrush Weasel. One day, Stinkbomb discovers that $20 is missing from his room. He is sure that it is the evil badgers who have stolen his money.
The two siblings complain to the king who tasks them with the epic quest to find the badgers before they do more evil. The find an enchanted shopping cart and trek through a dark forest before finding the badgers and their home. Captured with the king, they must work together to stop the badgers before they take over the kingdom.
Parental Guidance: low
Recommendation:
As a teacher, one of my favorite books to read aloud at the beginning of the year was Sideways Stories from Wayside School. This book is a similar type of tale, with a fractured fairy tale bent. Silly, nonsensical, crazy characters and laugh out loud moments keep the reader entertained. This would be a good book for a reluctant or struggling reader, or a class read aloud when the objective is to purely entertainment. It’s also written in the style of the Geronimo Stilton stories with certain words highlighted and cartoonish illustrations. This is the first book in a series of six.
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