Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables by Jon Scieszka; Illustrated by Lane Smith
	List Price:   $7.99 Unit Price:   $6.39 You Save:   $1.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0142500402 ISBN-13:   9780142500408 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Folklore/Fairy Tales Pub. Date:   May 2003 Pages:   48 Format:   Paperback Ages:   8 to 12
Awards
1999  ABC Children's Booksellers Choices Awards (USA)  Winner!
Subjects
FABLES HUMOROUS STORIES
Description/Notes
From the authors of 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs', this is a collection of new and wacky fables with fresh morals. The main moral being that if you can't say something nice about someone, change the guy's name to Donkey or Squid. If you can't say something nice about someone, change the guy's name to Donkey or Squid. Go ahead. Admit it. You'd love to be able to go around telling stories about all the unusual, scary, weird, and just-plain-annoying people that you know. But nobody likes a gossip. So what do you do? Just make like Aesop (and all those other great storytellers) and change all of the people to animals or food and add a moral to each story. Now your stories aren't gossip-they're fables! Filled with hilarious twists, unexpected insights, and even a BeefSnakStik,R this collection of newfangled fables-from the creatively twisted minds behind The Stinky Cheese Man and Baloney (Henry P.)-is sure to have readers rolling on the floor. A collection of new and wacky fables with fresh morals - the ones that, according to Jon Scieszka, 'Aesop might have told if he were alive today'. They are about all kinds of bossy, sneaky, funny and annoying characters and the general moral offeredis, 'If you are planning to write fables, don't forget to change people's names AND avoid high places with cliffs'. The irrepressible team of Scieszka and Smith have found a way tell stories about all the weird, scary, and annoying people everyone knows: they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call these 18 stories fables. Full color. 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.