Baloney, Henry P.

by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Book Overview

Henry P. Baloney is an alien schoolkid who needs to come up with one very good excuse to explain why he is late for szkola, again This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670892483
• ISBN13: 9780670892488
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

Fun with Vocabulary

Baloney Henry P is a great book for kids of all ages in elementary school. It is fun and great for predicting language by using context. I love the fact that the words, which sound made-up, are actually from different languages. It is a very motivating book.

nice!

i bought it as a gift for my grandsons. it is really a cute book.

Jabberwocky variant

This book tells about a little boy who is late for school. When the teacher asks him for his excuse, the boy comes up with a whopper of a tale full of some very strange words. Some of the words are almost familiar, while others sound like they are from outer space. That is, if you don't know Latvian, Finnish, or Inuqtitut, since each of the words is a real world from some language of the world. Despite the strangeness of the words, the story is perfectly understandable due to the excellent illustrations. The book includes a glossary at the back, explaining the source and meaning of each of the strange words. The book is not scary at all, and it is good fun, especially for boys. It contains about 500 words.

One Very Tall Tale.....

Little alien, Henry, is late to school again and his teacher Mrs Bugscuffle has had it. This time he's getting permanent lifelong detention unless he has a really good and believable excuse as to why he's late. So Henry launches into his story of how he lost his zimulis on the way to szkola and ended up on a razzo that blasted him to the planet Astrosus where he entertained the Astro guys with his piksas until they decided they should eat him....and so forth and so on until he escapes, hops back in his razzo and makes it to szkola just seven minutes late..... The dynamic duo, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have done it again, authored and illustrated an imaginative tall tale that will mesmerize youngsters with its hilarious premise, unique wordplay and detailed, busy, vivid artwork. Though Henry's adventure takes place in a galaxy far away, kids will have no trouble identifying with a hero whose problems are remarkably similar to their own. With an afterword and decoder (transmitted from deep space) at the end to help decipher the text, Baloney (Henry P.) is a charming and amusing story the entire family will enjoy.