The Teacher's Pet
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
This hilarious tale by debut picturebook author Anica Morse Rissi, brilliantly illustrated by Zachariah O'Hora, will keep kids giggling page after page as the class comes together to solve one BIG problem.
When their class tadpoles are big enough, Mr. Stricter tells his students they can keep just one. The class chooses Bruno, the smallest of the bunch. But Bruno doesn't stay that way for long. Soon, he's grown into a giant, classroom-wrecking creature: he eats desks, he farts for show-and-tell, and he sneezes slime all over everything! With Mr. Stricter blinded by love for the pet, the students must step up and take matters into their own heroic hands.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As a teacher, Mr. Stricter has a lot of good qualities, presumably, but animal identification isn't one of them. A class science project hatching tadpoles ends with all but one of them being released into the wild; the one the class keeps as a pet, named Bruno, grows into a hippo. "Isn't he adorable?" asks a cheerfully oblivious Mr. Stricter after Bruno flattens his desk. Rissi's (the Anna Banana series) very funny text is a model of understatement and restraint (the word hippo never appears), allowing OHora (The Not So Quiet Library) to make the most of the story's physical comedy in thickly painted scenes spiked with neon orange. Mr. Stricter is a classic bumbler cut from Amelia Bedelia's cloth, and readers will hope that his class has more oddball tales in store. Ages 3 5.
