Let's Go Camping with Mr. Sillypants - Softcover

M. K. Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590104519 ISBN 13: 9780590104517

Publisher: Scholastic, 1997

Synopsis

In this companion to the Reading Rainbow review book Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants, Mr. Sillypants oversleeps on the day of his camping trip. As he trys to catch up, Mr. Sillypants soon gets lost. With his quirky behavior and colorful clothes, Mr. Sillypants is a hero who shows kids that fears are normal and that even grownups can't always do everything right. Full-color illustrations.

About this title

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2?Mr. Sillypants has overslept and missed a camping trip. Determined to catch up with his friends, he follows their footprints but becomes distracted, wanders off the trail, and becomes hopelessly lost. As he did in Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants (Crown, 1992), the man eases his fears by having a giant sandwich and settling down for a rest. A dream in which the Three Bears chase him up a tree after he has trespassed into their home gives him the solution to his problem. Brown's large cartoon-style watercolor illustrations are perfectly suited to her humorous text and filled with visual jokes: sandwiches (very like our hero's own), not bowls of porridge, are set out on the bears' table; curtains on the same window don't match; cacti have funny faces; birds resemble flying tree fronds. Mr. Sillypants, who appears in a winged bicycle helmet, blue-and-pink striped pants, and yellow shirt and socks definitely lives up to his name. While providing some good-natured fun, this story should prompt some problem-solving discussions. Or use it with Jim Arnosky's Crinkleroot's Guide to Walking in Wild Places (Bradbury, 1990) for a look at the funny and serious sides of hiking.?Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community-Technical College, CT
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

Kids who giggled their way through Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants will hail the return of this bespectacled, befuddled hero. On the morning of the eponymous excursion, Mr. Sillypants oversleeps. His fellow campers have already departed, and Mr. Sillypants gets lost as he attempts to trace their footsteps through the woods. He tells himself not to panic, but to eat ("I always feel better after a sandwich and a pickle and a cookie and some hot chocolate"). The amiable fellow then takes a nap and, in a diverting, wordless tale-within-a-tale, he discovers "a charming cottage," wherein he sees three sandwiches, three toothbrushes and three beds?all of varying sizes. He awakens from a brief snooze to the glares of the house's three furry residents?whom delighted youngsters will easily recognize. When Mr. Sillypants wakes up for real, he, happily, finds the other campers. Brown's refreshingly spontaneous text and droll art balance good-natured humor with a reassuring message for any child who has become separated from a group. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590104519
• ISBN 13: 9780590104517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32