Nolen and Nelson offer a smaller, but no less gifted counterpart to Big Jabe (2000) in this new tall tale.
This isn’t anything like a blatant grab for Captain Underpants fans, oh no.
Large cartoons take up more space than the text, and Benton adds a mix-’n’-match feature that requires cutting several pages into flaps that can be flipped back and forth. Franny uses cold cuts from her classmates’ sandwiches to create a Frankenstein-ish ally, and thus becomes a hero by Being Herself. After taking systematic notes on peer behavior, Franny boils up an effective sweetness-and-light potion in her home lab-but then has to take the antidote when a Giant Monstrous Fiend rises from the garbage can and climbs the school’s flagpole with the teacher under one claw. Whether it’s her mad-scientist glare, her preference for gourmet lunches, or her love of bats, Franny has trouble making friends, until her teacher suggests that she approach it as another science experiment. (Sept.An anything-but-subtle tale about learning to get along with others, infused with bathroom humor and featuring a pint-sized Morticia Addams as main character. It’s slapstick comedy meets conspiracy thriller, and it makes a good case for better, more open parent-child communication. Then Jack, who enjoys scouring his neighbors’ trash for treasure, accidentally discovers an item that wasn’t meant to be discarded, the Secret Parent’s Handbook, which offers a master class in manipulation: “If the child has asked for something expensive, reply, ‘Do you think money grows on trees?’ That way you will have saved yourself from the unpleasantness of saying no and will have inflicted on the child a confusing question that will temporarily distract it from thinking about the object it has requested.” After reading the handbook, Jack and his friends turn the tables on their parents, but they’re soon caught between adult agents seeking the book and a kid-driven Resistance doing the same. Twelve-year-old Jack is tired of his parents bossing him around, and his friend Mike and neighbor/crush Maggie feel the same about their elders. Stein series), three friends discover the manual parents use to maintain control of their kids. In this kooky neighborhood caper from Benton (the Franny K.
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