I Wanna Go Home
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Another hilarious companion to I Wanna Iguana with fun grandparents saving the day.
Alex is not happy about being sent to his grandparents’ retirement community while his parents go on a fabulous vacation. What could be worse than tagging along to Grandma’s boring bridge game or enduring the sight of Grandpa’s dentures?
But as the week goes on, Alex’s desperate emails to his parents turn into stories about ice cream before dinner and stickball with Grandpa. Before he knows it, Alex has made a surprising discovery: grandparents are way cooler than he thought!
Masterfully balancing hilarity and heart, Karen Kaufman Orloff and Dave Catrow deliver a story sure to entertain kids and grandparents everywhere. Look for more stories highlighting Alex's powers of persuasion: I Wanna New Room and I Wanna Iguana.
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Previously seen in I Wanna Iguana and I Wanna New Room, Alex is still exchanging plaintive missives with his parents in his third picture book, though he has upgraded to email, out of necessity Alex and his siblings are staying in Florida with their grandparents while their parents are in Bora Bora. Alex is miserable: it's raining, it's boring, and he's unnerved by seeing Grandpa's false teeth on his bedside table (a scene that Catrow, no surprise, delights in making as icky as possible). But a square dancing class, Grandma and Grandpa's laissez-faire attitude toward mealtime (at a diner, Alex turns nine corn dogs into an impressive statue of a poodle), and a (very) old-fashioned game of stickball soon have the boy singing another tune. Orloff skillfully expresses Alex's gradually shifting attitude, while Catrow's comically exaggerated art provides a hyperbolic sense of fun. Ages 5 8.
