Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! by Jack Prelutsky
	List Price:   $18.99 Unit Price:   $15.19 You Save:   $3.80 (20%) ISBN-10:   0679990089 ISBN-13:   9780679990086 Publisher:   Random House [IN]; Knopf Boks for Young Readers Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   April 1998 Pages:   56 Format:   Hardcover; Library binding Ages:   5 to 8 Grades:   0 to 3
Awards
2001  Buckeye Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2000  Great Lakes' Great Books Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Started by Seuss, finished by Jack Prelutsky, and splendiferously illustrated by Lane Smith, this is the children's book publishing event of the year! Big--56 pages--and bursting with energy, here is a joyous ode to individuality, starring an unsinkable teacher named Miss Bonkers and quirky little Diffendoofer School, which must prove it has taught its students how to think--or have them sent to dreary Flobbertown. Included is an introduction by Dr. Seuss's longtime editor explaining how the book came to be and reproducing Dr. Seuss's 1989 original pencil sketches and hand-printed notes for the book--a true find for all Seuss collectors. In Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith pay homage to Dr. Seuss in their own distinctive ways. The result is the union of three one-of-a-kind voices in a brand-new, completely original book that is greater than the sum of its parts. For all of us who will never forget our school days and that special teacher, here is a book to give and to get. With this story about an unusual teacher named Miss Bonkers, Prelutsky & Smith complete the sketches Dr. Seuss left when he died in 1991. The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.