The War with Grandpa Movie Tie-in Edition

by Robert Kimmel Smith

Overview

Don't miss the laugh-out-loud classic about a boy who leaps into battle when he's forced to share a room with his grandfather—now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, and Oakes Fegley!

Peter is thrilled that Grandpa Jack is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa Jack moves right into Peter's room. Like any grandson, he loves his grandpa, but...he wants his room back. Now Peter has no choice—he declares war!

Peter begins to devise outrageous plots with the help of his friends to make Grandpa surrender the room. But even though the pranks escalate, Grandpa Jack is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa Jack plans to get even. They used to be such great pals, but Peter is now wondering—has their war gone too far?

WINNER OF 10 STATE READING AWARDS!
AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525644552
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/29/2020
Series:	The War with Grandpa , #1
Edition description:	Media Tie-in
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,029,544
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Robert Kimmel Smith was an award-winning author who wrote several popular books for children, including Chocolate Fever, The War with Grandpa and it's sequel—The War with Grandma—coming soon, Bobby Baseball, Jelly Belly, Mostly Michael, and The Squeaky Wheel.

Richard Lauter illustrated several books for young children, including The War with Grandpa. He lives in New Jersey.

Editorial Reviews

AN IRA-CBC CHILDREN'S CHOICE
 WINNER OF TEN STATE READING AWARDS!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Vermont) South Carolina Children's Book Award
Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
Young Hoosier Award (Indiana)
William Allen White Award (Kansas)
Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alberta)
Tennessee Children's Choice Award
Georgia Children's Book Award
Alabama Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award

"Peter tells this story with honesty and humor....By the story's end, Peter has learned much about the causes and effects of war—and human dignity."-School Library Journal

"The humor of the story derives from Peter's first-person account and from the reader's recognition of Peter's valiant effort to maintain two mutually exclusive emotions."-The Horn Book Magazine

From the Publisher

08/17/2020

Readers who have completed Atkinson’s previous introductory “course,” last year’s Unicorns 101—or anyone else intrigued by monsters—can pick up some knowledge from this tongue-in-cheek breakdown of what the creepy creatures are really like. In a numbered series of bold, animation-flavored picture book “chapters,” a team of monstronomy professors, including “bats and blood specialist” Professor Batula McFang and “goop whiz” Professor Blobbins, provide the names and distinguishing characteristics of various monsters, famous and less well known, as well as their daily doings (both weekdays and weekends), where they live, and what they eat (brains and sewage soup both make the gross-out menu). The consistently kicky images and the diploma readers earn by book’s end are entertaining enticements, and kids won’t want to miss the nuggets revealed in the chapter about monsters’ biggest fears. Ages 3–7. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

07/01/2020

K-Gr 2—More faux nonfiction from the author of Unicorns 101. With materials that most readers will associate with fact-based books—table of contents, checklists, facts boxes—this is an introduction to monster lore. Topics such as "Daily Life," "Monster-Human Interaction," and "Monster History" cover a wide range of (mostly Western) monsters, from goblins and yeti to vampires and ghosts; and of course, there is no single diet, habitat, or history that fits them all. While Unicorns 101 benefited from the contrast between a dry scientific tone and the humorously exaggerated fabulousness of unicorns, this book includes too many monster types, too superficially, to sustain a good gag. The text uses some advanced vocabulary—"diabolical," "raunchy"—and assumes substantial prior monster knowledge on the part of the younger readers. In contrast, the art is aimed at very young children, depicting colorful, smiling, googly-eyed monsters that are not scary at all (plus a scant human cast who has a range of body types and skin colors). VERDICT With an emphasis on the gross over the frightening, and eager reassurances that monsters are "nice if you get to know" them, this is for those who prefer their monsters tame.—Sarah Stone, San Francisco P.L.

School Library Journal

2020-07-14
If readers think they know everything about monsters, they can guess again.

By checking out this zany field guide–like offering, monster mavens will learn lots about these creatures or enlarge their store of knowledge about them. Under the expert tutelage of professors Batula McFang, Blobbins, and Howlsworth and abetted by brains-loving Tina the Zombie, all of whom gamely escort readers through these pages, kids will pick up salient facts about monsters. These include types, diet, biology, habitats, history, and more—including tidbits about what monsters themselves fear the most and what they get up to under some people’s beds! The text’s silly conversational tone is comically tongue-in-cheek and should convince skittish younger readers that the book is meant to evoke chuckles, not shrieks. However, some slightly gross references may elicit an eww or two and/or, perhaps, a mild frisson of delighted shivers. Actual text is kept to a minimum per page, with charts, sidebars, and diagrams breaking up wordiness and heightening visual appeal. The lively, very colorful illustrations are imaginative and filled with raucous details that kids will love poring over. This title’s use in libraries may be limited by a full-page chart that resembles a checklist for kids to fill in and a removable “Monstronomy Diploma” at the end of the book.

Readers can have a monstrous good time, and not just at Halloween. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews