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Synopsis
Sidney invents a "changing box," which can change whatever he puts into it into something else.
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Grade 1-3 Gackenbach employs the ``ol' switcheroo'' plot this time. Sidney, a second-grade genius inventor, constructs a machine that can change an item into something else. After some successful experimenting, including changing his sister into a lamp and back again, Sidney decides to change himself into his dog, Wally, and vice versa. The events that follow are played strictly for laughs. The canine Sidney is refused a ride on the school bus and is not allowed to play baseball with his friends because he has fleas. Meanwhile, at home, Wally, in Sidney's body, is chastised for sleeping on the dog's pillow, for eating dog food, and for not going to school. After narrowly escaping from the dogcatcher, Sidney races home to change himself and Wally back to their original forms, exclaiming, ``Sometimes, things are better left the way they are.'' The distinctive Gackenbach illustrations, solid, bold, vigorous, and in full color, lend more appropriate silliness to the text. A great choice for reading aloudand one sure to circulate. This story can be followed by Steig's more sophisticated Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Windmill, 1969) for the same theme. Hayden Atwood, Cape Elizabeth Middle School , Maine
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- PublisherClarion / Ticknor and Fields
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0812474341
- ISBN 13 9780812474343
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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