Be a Perfect Person in 3 Days

by Stephen Manes

Book Overview

In search of perfection, Milo Crinkley earnestly tries to follow the loony instructions he finds in a library book and learns that there are more important things in life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899190642
• ISBN13: 9780899190648
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Perfect Read Aloud to Young Readers

The 20 children in my second grade class loved this book, and begged (NOT AN EXAGERATION) me to keep reading it until it was through. We talked about being perfect, laughed at the antics in the story, and none of us wanted to stop. As a matter of fact, when the book was finished, the class immediately wanted me to start reading Manes' book How to Make a Million...The only thing that stopped me was that I don't own that book. That will be rectified the moment I'm done posting this review!

This story is better than a bolgona sandwich!

This story was good because Milo got hit on the head with a book. He was not a bad boy, he just wanted to be good at everything. - Tyroshan & Tyroniona This story is funny! It is better than any other story we've read. - Alvineka & Dionne Milo is a good boy, even if he walks with broccoli around his neck. - Victor & Lance It is funny because Milo does everything that Dr. Silverfish tells him and Dr. Silverfish is crazy! - Matthew & Sean I think that Milo was not perfect but that he was brave to wear broccoli around his neck. - Racquel & Rasheeda The story is very, very funny! The funniest part in the story was when he made funny faces in the mirror. - Kimani & Jonathan It was a funny story because Milo wore broccoli around his neck. He did some crazy things! - Catina & Brittany

A Fabulous book!!

o my gosh! This was without a doubt one of my favorite books as a child....I literally borrowed it from the library every time we went!! Milo, the main character, borrows the hilarious self-help book from the library ( be a perfect person in JUST 3 DAYS!", he gets more than he bargained for! His book is equally funny and amazing, as the chapters appear to be written according to what he is thinking as he reads along on the road to being perfect....This is definitly one of the better books out there, a quick and entertaining read, that your child (or even you) will want to read again and again and again..... :) May I just reiterate that this is a wonderful book??! ok thankx :) Have a great day!

Give 'em 3 days and YOU TOO could be perfect!!

Who says that nobody's perfect? Certainly not Dr. K Pinkerton Silverfish, the clown-nosed, messy-hotdog-eating author of the book "Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days!" that mysteriously falls on our hero's head!Meet Milo. He's your average kid, flawed like the rest of us, and just trying to find a good book on scary monsters at the library when "Be a Perfect Person...!!" flies from the shelf and beans him a good one. The author, Dr. S, is a very strange looking character in his author photo, dressed in a half-tie and Hawaiian shirt with that messy hotdog, but something about his eyes and what may be a smirk on his lips makes Milo want to check the book out. After all, who WOULDN'T want to be perfect? He takes it home to read and immediately finds out that the road to being perfect is paved with strange tasks. Wearing a stalk of broccoli around your neck for one day and night, and not eating anything, for example. It's enough to make people wonder if you've lost your marbles. Still, if broccoli-wearing brings Milo perfection (kinda' like fasting brings inner awareness), then so be it! Bring on the green stuff!B.A.P.P.I.J.T.D. is a quick, fast-paced read that will entertain and draw in even the most reluctant readers. It's short, weighing in at under 100 pages, so the length won't intimidate beginning readers. It is funny, ridiculous and clips along at a pace where you can't help but keep reading to find out what could possibly happen next. The language is easy to read but not condescending to young audiences. I teach reading to a group of normally reluctant, low-level readers, and within the first page everyone was hooked! Many of my students even asked if they could read THE WHOLE THING by the next day's class. Lo and behold, most of them *DID*!! This was not my doing; this was the ease and engagement of the book itself. Don't just take MY word for it, take it from the students who normally hate reading: this is a fine, fun book!

A comical remedy for feeling like a failure.

I enjoyed this book because it deals with the problem of feeling like a failure or being unpopular. At our school, we use this book for the whole classroom. It's fun, easy to read, and deals with problems that most middle school students face.