Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables
Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables!
With tales like "Little Walrus," in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary "Slug's Big Moment," wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and "Straw and Matches," which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection are sure to delight readers both young and old.
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Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables
Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables!
With tales like "Little Walrus," in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary "Slug's Big Moment," wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and "Straw and Matches," which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection are sure to delight readers both young and old.
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Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables
Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem-they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables!
With tales like "Little Walrus," in which too much of the truth is a dangerous thing, the cautionary "Slug's Big Moment," wherein Slug is so caught up in herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and "Straw and Matches," which illustrates quite clearly why you should never play with matches (because they cheat), the eighteen fables in this uproarious collection are sure to delight readers both young and old.
Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including the New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (illustrated by Lane Smith), and Math Curse (illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called “Guys Read” that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the country’s first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Children’s Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for children’s literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.
"[Has] and in-your-face attitude that will hold reader's rapt attention." -Publishers Weekly
Jon Scieszka
From a barnesandnoble.com e-nnouncement
We're all used to hearing fables -- those moral-filled stories
about tortoises and hares and ants and grasshoppers. But
fables about skateboarding frogs? Duckbilled Platypuses?
BeefSnakStiks? Outrageous, you say? Well, that may be
true, but these fables have just the right amount of bizarre
hilarity that fans of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have
come to expect. After standing fairy tales on their heads in
THE STINKY CHEESE MAN AND OTHER FAIRLY STUPID
TALES and blowing the lid on THE TRUE STORY OF
THE 3 LITTLE PIGS, the enormously popular and highly
acclaimed author and illustrator team are back with SQUIDS
WILL BE SQUIDS, and this time, they've unlocked the
ancient secret of animal tales.
Move over, Aesop, because the world of fables may never
be the same!
A Fable by Jon Scieszka exclusively for
barnesandnoble.com:
The secret to writing fables is to take a situation, change
the names of the people to animal names, tell what
happened, and then add a moral. Voila. You have a fable.
I don't remember exactly where I got the idea for this fable,
but it just kind of came to me....
YAK AND EMU
Yak promised Emu he would write a fable for her to give to
barnesandnoble.com. He promised he would have it by
Monday. On Monday, Emu called Yak and asked for the
fable.
"I'm just fixing up the ending," said Yak. "I'll email it to you
Tuesday."
On Tuesday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable. "Oh
man," said Yak. "My modem just died. I'll get it to you on
Wednesday."
On Wednesday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable.
"What bad timing," said Yak. "My whole system just
crashed. I'll get it to you on Thursday."
On Thursday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable.
"You're not going to believe this," said Yak. "But my dog
just ate my hard drive." And at that exact moment, Yak's
pants burst into flames and he had to come up with a fable
right then and there.
