Michael - Hardcover

Bradman, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027118509 ISBN 13: 9780027118506

Publisher: Atheneum, 1991

Synopsis

Michael is considered to be a poor student because he is different from the others and has his own ideas about what is interesting or worthwhile, but he ends by surprising everyone

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Bradman's previous titles include Daddy's Lullaby and The Magnificent Mummies. Tony Ross is the author of many books, including The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Wash Your Hands!

From Publishers Weekly:

Michael is "the worst boy in the school"--unpunctual, inattentive and disruptive. In art class he draws a rocket while the other children paint flowers; in math, he works on strange calculations instead of reciting his tables; in gym class he leaps skyward as his fellow pupils jog on the spot. Although Michael likes reading, he prefers books on rockets and outer space to "the sort of books they had in school." Michael's teachers have washed their hands of him, until one day the ingenious boy zips off in a homemade rocket. This somewhat offbeat picture book is a splendid collaboration, for what the text does not divulge, the pictures do eloquently. Bradman's text is deadpan in its simplicity and amusing in its understatement, while Ross's exuberant illustrations present a ghastly array of teachers and rows of snub-nosed schoolchildren in comic detail. Though some parents may wonder whether Michael's genius justifies his bad behavior, children will find him perfectly endearing. Ages 4-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0027118509
• ISBN 13: 9780027118506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 28
• Illustrator: Ross Tony