![]() ![]() ![]() What do you want to say to our readers?Ĭ: Stay tuned for more book bunny reviews! Caramel loved reading Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar and is planning to move immediately on to the next book in the series. ![]() So how would you describe this book in three words? I’m guessing the teachers in his school did not turn students into apples and eat them. S: But according to Wikipedia, his teaching days were not too exciting, so he had to make up a lot of stuff.Ĭ: Well, that makes sense too. There is a teacher character in the book named Louis. S: Did you also know that the author used to teach in an elementary school named Hillside and some of the ideas in the book might be related?Ĭ: I did not know that! But it makes sense actually. S: But of course Holes was written after this one, and you read this one after Holes. And it says on the cover of the book that the author is the author of Holes. Did you know that Marshmallow has already reviewed a book by Louis Sachar?Ĭ: Yep, and I also watched the movie. So I want to read the other books about Wayside School. The childhood they were talking about is very familiar to me, but it seems quite far from your experiences somehow. S: Yes, I think they seem to have aged quite a bit. But I don’t think we understood all the jokes. In that world, too, sometimes really weird things happened, but nothing quite like a teacher turning children into apples.Ĭ: Yes, I think you read a couple of those books to us when we were little. S: Everything you are telling me reminds me of my favorite series from childhood: Le Petit Nicolas, about a little kid and his classmates and all kinds of funny things happening to them. Caramel is reading Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. S: True, if you are counting from the bottom, but it is not labeled 13, it is labeled 14.Ĭ: That is strange. S: A lot of people think 13 is an unlucky number, so they don’t like to be on a floor labeled thirteenth.Ĭ: But after the twelfth floor comes the thirteenth, no? S: But it is also kind of like how a lot of building in the United States don’t have a thirteenth floor.Ĭ: Wait, I did not know that. S: That almost sounds like a logic riddle! It is about Miss Zarves who is supposed to be the teacher of the classroom on the nineteenth floor, but since there is no floor, there is no classroom, and so there is no Miss Zarves. ![]() But I think everything is happening on the 30th floor actually. S: Alright, why don’t you tell me something else instead? Tell me more about the book.Ĭ: There are thirty chapters, one for each story of the Wayside School. But on the bright side, she gets eaten too. Except when they are kind of scary because I would not want to be eaten as an apple by my teacher. I think the stories are pretty hilarious. It is not described as magic, but just that these people behave this way. S: But wait, then there is magic in this book?Ĭ: Not sure. S: What? That sounds pretty terrible and irreversible! There is one who turns students into an apple when she is angry with them, and then she eats them! So what do you mean by weird when you say teachers and students are weird?Ĭ: Some of the teachers have a strange way to discipline students. S: Okay, I can see that could be a spoiler. S: Oh yes, I think I heard about a student made up of a rat or something like that?Ĭ: Well, it was one dead rat, but I am not going to give away too much. Anyways the students are weird and the teachers, too, and there are some dead rats that seem to be alive. S: Hmm, I think on the contrary it saves space, it takes only the area of one classroom for the whole school. It was supposed to be one story high and with thirty classrooms, but the builder messed up and put all classrooms on their own floors. It is a weird school, and all the students and teachers are also weird, and very strange and interesting things keep happening.Ĭ: First of all, it is thirty stories high, like a skyscraper. What is it about?Ĭ: It’s about these kids in this place called Wayside School. Can you tell me a bit about what they are all about?Ĭaramel: Well, at this point I only read this first book. Sprinkles: So Caramel, I heard a lot about these Wayside School books, but I have not read them myself. Caramel reviews Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. As usual, Sprinkles is asking questions and taking notes. The first of several Wayside School books written by Sachar, this book was published originally in 1978. Today Caramel reviews Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. ![]()
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