At our house, I eagerly anticipate any new book from Jon Scieszka (We have all of his books). I jumped at the announcement of this book and immediately placed my order. After receipt, my eight year old son and I sat down to read together. From the first page, my son was reading and laughing with each story. The stories are brief yet extremely clever. Each story concludes with a "moral". Parents can utilize these stories and "morals" to explain to our kids how these stories are actually real-life experiences and situations in disguise. This book offers parents a non-threatening tool with which to teach kids how to deal with and hopefully understand social relationships. Aside from all of the above, this book is just a lot of fun to read and view. The art work is on par with or exceeds "The Stinky Cheese Man" and "The Book that Jack Wrote" - simply terrific. This is a wonderful book for both children and adults. Highly recommended.

We have had this book for over a year and purchased it afterbeing lucky enough to hear a reading of it by the author before it wasreleased. I have six children ranging in age from 4 to 16 and each one of us loves this book for different reasons. I love it becuase it is one of a very few childrens' books which is really funny in a smart way. My four year old loves it for the stories and the great and intriguing illustrations, and my nine year old boy loves it for the nine year old boy appeal it obviously has. Everyone else loves it for their own reasons but it is read over and over again and our four year old can ALWAYS capture a family member to read it to her which is not always the case with other books.

I got this book for my son who is 9...over the 4-8 age reccommendation for this book. I knew it would be funny and he would enjoy it...and boy did he! The book has "boy appeal"... and general "ha-ha-ho-ho's" abound. We read it the first time for laughs...we will read it again and I will encourage him to see if there is anything "deeper" in the stories.... He really enjoyed the pictures alot. He is at the age when at school he is only allowed to read "chapter" books so this was a wonderful break and fun return back to picture books. Although some of the stories did have meaning to them...Some were just fun and all the pictures were wonderful. I enjoy allowing my son to read some things for the pure pleasure and pure fun of reading...this is a perfect choice for that.