The Perfect School Picture
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
It’s picture day, and the boy at the center of this charming story wants to make sure his picture is perfect. It seems as though everything’s going wrong for him—he has bedhead, a stained shirt, and a big scowl on his face. But when he goes up for his picture, he thinks about his terrible appearance, and he smiles—because he secretly wants his picture to be the worst ever taken! But just as he smiles, the photo is snapped, and his plan is ruined when he takes a totally adorable picture. Perfectly paired with the larger-than-life silliness of Dan Santat’s illustrations, this is a sweet and funny picture book about a classic school moment.
Praise"The narrator’s over-the-top voice makes reading aloud a must . . . high-energy comedy that involves only minor destruction."— Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a picture book based on the school photos almost every child has endured, Diesen (the Pout-Pout Fish series) focuses on a boy who plots to ruin his school picture. He wakes up with bed head, which Santat (The Princess and the Pit Stop) captures with faux-Polaroid mug shots of the boy's hair sticking up like a wave. He rummages for his favorite shirt "You might call it stained.' You might call it wrinkled.' You might even call it smelly.' You wouldn't be wrong" and then has a close encounter with some maple syrup. School offers a paint-splattered art assignment; Santat imagines a project that combines birdhouses and macaroni. But when the picture-taking moment arrives, things don't go quite the way the narrator has planned. The narrator's over-the-top voice makes reading aloud a must ("Wasted! Useless! Ruined...") as Diesen portrays a boy who's honing his mischief-making skills. Santat's digital artwork chronicles the child's emotional ride, from simmering rage to fiendish calculation to impatient exasperation. It's high-energy comedy that involves only minor destruction. The small paperback includes a bound-in cardboard picture frame. Ages 5 7.
