The Wacky Substitute - Hardcover

Derby, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761452192 ISBN 13: 9780761452195

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, 2005

Synopsis

When Mr. Wuerst, the substitute kindergarten teacher at Merryvale School, drops his glasses into the frying pan one morning, he ends up wearing a dish towel to school instead of his scarf and he mistakes the class gerbils for fur caps.

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Derby is a Marshall Cavendish author.

From Publishers Weekly:

While the teacher's away, the students will play—as long as Mr. Hiram Wuerst is their substitute. The guest teacher's poor eyesight and glasses mishap (they fell into a frying pan and broke before breakfast) result in a series of harmless slapstick situations. When the phone rings, Mr. Wuerst holds a banana to his ear, for instance, and he gives his pup a catnip mouse and his cat a bone. His Mr. Magoo–like antics (e.g., mistaking a mop for the principal, handing out the wrong snack) continue throughout the school day, much to the delight of his wide-eyed pupils. The rosy-cheeked and freckle-face kindergarteners are an accepting audience for their teacher's madcap mix-ups—as will be the young readers of Derby's (Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas) amusing tale. (Not old enough to take advantage, the pupils' most mischievous deed is letting out the 12 gerbils at rest time.) Herbert's (What Will We Do With the Baby-O?) boldly hued cartoon illustrations, featuring her trademark round- and large-headed characters, boost the comical tone. The fumbling and bumbling main character resembles a kindly grandpa with his striped trousers, orange bowtie and tufts of white hair on either side of his bald head. The off-the-wall scenarios will have readers wishing for a substitute who snores at rest time or dismisses them onto a fire truck instead of the bus. Ages 4-7. (July)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0761452192
• ISBN 13: 9780761452195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Herbert Jennifer