Don't Say That Word! - Hardcover

Katz, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689869711 ISBN 13: 9780689869716

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007

Synopsis

In Art my pal Richie got inky.
But Mom, that was only the start.
'Cause Richie then made the room stinky
by blasting a really big...

DON'T SAY THAT WORD!

Michael can't wait to tell his mom all about his day at school. But how can he, when she keeps stopping him before he gets to the best part?

Laugh out loud with the bestselling team who brought us Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Songs and the other hilarious books in the Silly Dilly series. But what ever you do...

DON'T
SAY
THAT
WORD!

About this title

About the Author

Alan Katz has been a print and television comedy writer for more than twenty years. In addition to being a multiple Emmy nominee for his work on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and Disney’s Raw Toonage, he has written for children’s programming on Nickelodeon, ABC Television, Warner Bros. Animation’s Taz-Mania, and many others. Alan is the author of several adult humor books, humorous essays for The New York Times and other publications, and books for young readers. Alan lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his journalist wife, Rose, and their children Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David. Visit him online at AlanKatzBooks.com.

David Catrow is the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as in nine hundred other newspapers. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.

Reviews

The team that did Are You Quite Polite? (2006) once again has rude fun while nearly stepping over the line. In rhyming verse and wild, watercolor and colored-pencil cartoonlike scenarios, Michael has a lot to tell about his school day. Every time he gets to the best parts of his stories, though, his mom warns him not to say "that word." He picks his nose as he tells about Rebecca, who brought birthday cookies to school and the boy who topped his cookie with a . . . Then there was the teacher at recess who threatened to punish the group and then stepped into a pile of . . . In the story's climax, it is Max's turn to yell at Mom, "Don't say that word!" From the cover with the kid suffering a time out with a big bar of soap in his mouth, the gross humor is right-on for slapstick in relaxed families that will enjoy the farce and the mischievous wordplay. Rochman, Hazel

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Don't Say That Word!

By Alan Katz

Margaret K. McElderry

Copyright © 2006 Alan Katz
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-689-86971-6

Chapter One

DON'T SAY THAT WORD!

Max bawled, Mom, and you should've seen it -

the scarf, he really did soil it.

Things got worse when Liz tried to clean it

by flushing it right down the ...

DON'T SAY THAT WORD!

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689869711
• ISBN 13: 9780689869716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Catrow David
• Number of pages: 32