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Don't Forget Your Etiquette!: The Essential Guide to Misbehavior
Contributor(s): Greenberg, David (Author), Westcott, Nadine Bernard (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0374349908     ISBN-13: 9780374349905
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2006
* Out of Print *

Annotation: "If you're smart, you'll read "my" book"
"Of "modern" children's etiquette."
"If you don't, I'm sad to say -"
"Your life will be pathetiquette."
Meet Miss Information, the world's foremost expert on bad behavior, as she offers upside-down advice about the etiquette of absolutely everything. In twenty impishly off-center poems she states her views on such important topics as bathing (with and without gerbils), kissing (Komodo dragons as well as teachers), and eating.
Exuberant illustrations full of hilarious antics add to the humor of this mischievous spoof on bad behavior. These sly poems offer a child-friendly way to discuss what good behavior really should be like and are sure to become every child's essential guide to - a rollicking good time!
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Manners & Etiquette
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - Humorous
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 2003063125
Age Level: 6-9
Grade Level: 1-4
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 8.84" W x 11.22" L (0.85 lbs) 40 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/2006 pg. 954
School Library Journal 10/01/2006 pg. 134
Booklist 10/01/2006 pg. 55
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2006 pg. 730
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 166 - Superior,Well Above Average
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 109600
Reading Level: 5.2   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:

If you're smart, you'll read my book
Of modern children's etiquette.
If you don't, I'm sad to say -
Your life will be pathetiquette.

Meet Miss Information, the world's foremost expert on bad behavior, as she offers upside-down advice about the etiquette of absolutely everything. In twenty impishly off-center poems she states her views on such important topics as bathing (with and without gerbils), kissing (Komodo dragons as well as teachers), and eating.

Exuberant illustrations full of hilarious antics add to the humor of this mischievous spoof on bad behavior. These sly poems offer a child-friendly way to discuss what good behavior really should be like and are sure to become every child's essential guide to - a rollicking good time!


Contributor Bio(s): Greenberg, David: - DAVID GREENBERG's picture books in verse include the popular Slugs. He lives in Portland, Oregon.Westcott, Nadine Bernard: -

Nadine Bernard Westcott's many picture books including She Did It! by Jennifer A. Ericsson, which Kirkus Reviews called "a bushel-full of fun." She lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts.


 
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