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The Very Inappropriate Word (2013)

by Jim Tobin(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0805094741 (ISBN13: 9780805094749)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: Oh how I love thee, let me count the ways...So first of all, this is a lovely book because it's both written and illustrated well. It's funny, interesting, and pretty.Our main character likes words (and therefore libraries, always a good thing in a book). He likes little words that describe big things (vast) and big words that describe little things (smithereens).Vast illustrated wonderfully with Dad and boy looking at the starry sky. Smithereens illustrated with Mom and boy at diner when person breaks their cup. So, fun, etc.Now, the things you may not notice the first time through... Mom is the one fixing the toilet. It's an interracial family. Neither of these has anything to do with the story, it's just there and another reason to love it.Anyway, libraries are wonderfu... morel. Check it out of yours. It won't take long to read it!
review 2: Michael collects words from any and every source he can find. One day on the school bus he picks up a word he had never heard before and it turns out to be very inappropriate. Cleverly, the word is shown as a graphic of symbols in a 'dirty' messy word bubble. But that doesn't stop Michael from trying the word out which leads to him being in trouble with his teacher, Mrs. Dixon. She sends him to the library with the task of digging up a few new spelling words for her. Michael found a lot of new words and took some home with him and that helped him loose track of the very inappropriate word which of course was picked up by somebody else. The cartoon style ink and watercolor illustrations are a perfect match for this humorous story which would work well for a parent or teacher who was facing a child with a very inappropriate word. less

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