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The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer . . .

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“A fast-paced story that will keep kids chuckling and perhaps inspire their own unbelievable tall tales.” —School Library Journal
 
What really happened over the summer break? A curious teacher wants to know—and is about to get an epic explanation. What started out as a day at the beach turned into a globe-spanning treasure hunt with high-flying hijinks, exotic detours, an outrageous cast of characters, and one very mischievous bird. Is this yet another tall tale, or is the truth just waiting to be revealed?
 
From the author/illustrator team behind I Didn’t Do My Homework Because . . . and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School . . . comes a fantastical fast-paced summer adventure that’s so unbelievable, it just might be true!
 
“A magical tale involving a treasure map, pirates, a submarine, a flying machine, yetis, and more.” —School Library Journal
 
“A fabulous escapade.” —Booklist
 
“Will have readers chortling.” —Kirkus Reviews
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    • Kirkus

      May 1, 2016
      An answer to the classic first-day-of-school question is unspooled in tall-tale fashion by the white boy with the black unruly hair in the too-small suit first met in I Didn't Do My Homework Because... (2014).His tall, long-nosed teacher, also white, asks the question, and the story starts on a beach where the boy and his dachshund find a treasure map. Immediately, a magpie steals the map, and the chase begins: from a pirate ship to an adventure with a giant squid, from a submarine to a movie set where an actress (with a long nose) in medieval dress enables the boy to retrieve the map. There's a hot air balloon trip, an unexpected rescue by his uncle's flying machine, and then a drop-off on an island where that magpie flies off with the map again, forcing the boy to continue his travels to the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, and a snowy country populated by yetis. Finally, the boy and the dog find the treasure (some rather tame snorkeling masks) on the original beach. They discover underwater beauty but miss a real treasure chest. They also miss the joke that readers won't: the teacher has engineered the whole adventure! The small trim, terse, first-person narrative, and detailed, cartoonlike pen-and-colored ink drawings will have individual readers chortling, at least the first time around.Fun for a first read but unlikely to have children calling for another. (Picture book. 6-8)

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    • School Library Journal

      June 1, 2016

      Gr 1-3-The little boy from I Didn't Do My Homework Because... tells an increasingly tall tale about his summer vacation. The excitement begins with the cover (depicting the boy and his dog entangled in the arms of an octopus) and is carried through to the endpapers (featuring the creature's suction cups). "So, what did you do this summer?" asks his teacher. He recounts a magical tale involving a treasure map, pirates, a submarine, a flying machine, yetis, and more. Careful readers will pick up on several visual clues and jokes. Spare text is enhanced by intricate cartoon illustrations in this picture book with an attractive chapter book trim size. VERDICT A fast-paced story that will keep kids chuckling and perhaps inspire their own unbelievable tall tales.-Andrea Pavlik, Huntington Public Library, NY

      Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2017
      In Museum, a boy recounts to his mom a mishap-filled school trip. In Summer, he describes finding a treasure map in a bottle, which leads to adventure. In both small-trim books, the fine-lined art reveals what the texts don't: e.g., a dino replica illustrates "I was charged by a triceratops," and it was Mom who planted the treasure map.

      (Copyright 2017 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • ATOS Level:2.4
  • Lexile® Measure:500
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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