Title
Never Poke A Squid,Used
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From School Library JournalGrade 13This chaotic, disjointed story misses the mark. Arnie and his friend Raymond, dressed as a squid for their school's Halloween parade, arrive at Arnie's house and announce to his mother, 'Never poke a squid in the ink bag!That's the Rule of the Sea.' From this funny, somewhat ominous statement, the events of the first graders' day are revealed in bits and snatches of conversation and halting sentence fragments that do little to give readers a clue about the plot. The main story, told in boxed text, is fortified somewhat by the busy watercolor cartoons of classmates making inaneoften humorouscommentary, in comicstyle balloons. At the end of the school day, the boys receive awards at a ceremony where the school principal inadvertently pokes their costume and is covered in ink. The final pages, back in Arnie's kitchen, reflect an inexplicable change of focus. After an invitation from his friend's mother to spend the night, a suddenly shy, insecure Raymond admits that he's never been to a sleepover before and feels the need to announce the obvious: 'I'm Arnie's friend.' The book and its humor are clearly for independent readers, but the lack of resolution may confuse rather than amuse.Holly Belli, Bergen County Cooperative Library System, West Caldwell, NJCopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.Product DescriptionFrom BooklistAges 47. Here's more cheerful classroom chaos featuring animals mimicking children from the authorillustrator of Never Spit on Your Shoes (1990). Like Never Spit , this hilarious romp also depicts a slice of firstgrade life. Arnie the pup's lowkey description of the day's events (beginning with 'We Pledge the Pigeons'), delivered to his mother over milk and cookies, is in sharp contrast to the cartoonlike watercolors showing what really went on. It's Halloween, and things at school go swimmingly (in a controlled combustion way), with treats and crafts and a parade, until the principal pins an award on the squid costume Arnie and his friend Raymond are wearing, which spews ink from a punctured container all over the classroom. A delightful bit of classroom humor that will go well with books from Marc Brown's Arthur series and with James Marshall's Miss Nelson stories. Connie FletcherCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved
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