How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps - Hardcover

Huget, Jennifer Larue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375844104 ISBN 13: 9780375844102

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade, 2010

Synopsis

Got a messy room? No problem!

This simple, laugh-out-loud picture-book guide to cleaning your room is sure to make picking up a snap. Here is the first rule: Always wait until your mother hollers, "GET UP THERE AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM—NOW!" using all three of your names. Once she does, you'd better get moving. From dumping out drawers and dividing stuff into piles to arranging all eight zillion of your stuffed animals, here's the kind of advice on room tidying that everyone can relate to.

With funny, direct text by Jennifer LaRue Huget and amazing illustrations by New Yorker artist Edward Koren, this book is sure to appeal to messy kids everywhere.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer LaRue Huget is the author of Thanks A LOT, Emily Post!, which was described as "quirky, original . . . written with clarity and wit" in a starred review by Booklist.

Edward Koren has published nearly a thousand cartoons in the New Yorker magazine. He is also the illustrator of Oops!, a poetry collection by Alan Katz; Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra; How to Eat Like a Child by Delia Ephron; A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle; and Pet Peeves by George Plimpton.

From Booklist

Huget and New Yorker cartoonist Koren combine their considerable talents in this amusing how-to that will be familiar to any parent. Welcome to my room, says the young narrator. It's clean at the moment, and she is about to show how to get your room in the same shape. First, mess it up. The next spread makes fine use of Koren's scratchy ink-and-watercolor art (with the emphasis on scratchy), as toys, clothes, pictures, and pets are tossed and tumbled through the room. The tongue-in-cheek tone of the text captures salient elements of cleanup, as when Mother suggests getting rid of old stuffed animals like that silly rabbit missing body parts. The narrator hugs the bunny tight, proclaiming it her favorite. When Mother's gone, toss it back onto the heap and forget about her. There's a bit of an audience problem here. It's older kids (and adults!) who'll find this the funniest, but get it in the right hands, and hilarity will ensue. Grades K-3. --Ilene Cooper

About this edition

• Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0375844104
• ISBN 13: 9780375844102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Koren Edward