Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! by Jack Prelutsky
	List Price:   $17.00 Unit Price:   $13.60 You Save:   $3.40 (20%) ISBN-10:   0679890084 ISBN-13:   9780679890089 Publisher:   Random House [IN]; Knopf Boks for Young Readers Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   April 1998 Pages:   56 Format:   Hardcover 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
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), the most beloved children's book author of the twentieth century, had a mind that never grew up. Jack Prelutsky (1940- ) hasn't decided what he will be when he grows up, but in the meantime he has written more than 30 books of children's verse and edited a number of anthologies of poetry for children. A Pizza the Size of the Sun, The New Kid on the Block, Something Big Has Been Here, and his anthology The Random House Book of Poetry for Children are a few of them. Lane Smith (1959- ) keeps forgetting that he is no longer in third grade and must start doing something besides doodling. His doodles in The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka earned him a 1993 Caldecott Honor, and in 1996 he gave a new look to the Roald Dahl classic James and the Giant Peach, in both book and feature-film form. 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. If there ever was a very special teacher in your life, you'll want to MEET Miss Bonkers. If you believe that learning how to think should be fun, you'll want to VISIT Diffendoofer School. If you love vintage Dr. Seuss, you'll want to READ the special section, How This Book Came to Be. If you want to make someone happy, you'll want to GIVE them this book! 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.