Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802774989 ISBN 13: 9780802774989

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 1996

Synopsis

I know my teacher, Miss Malarkey, lives in our classroom, Room 10. She's there all the time. In fact, all the teachers live at school. They eat dinner in the cafeteria and sleep in the teachers' lounge. I'm sure of it!

So why is Miss Malarkey moving into my apartment house?...

What could be more surprising than finding out your teacher has a life outside school? In Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10, Judy Finchler and Kevin O'Malley celebrate kids' comic misunderstandings about the private lives of teachers.

About this title

About the Author:

Judy Finchler is the author of Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10. She is an elementary school teacher and librarian from Parsippany, New Jersey.

Kevin O'Malley is the illustrator of several children's books from Walker & Company, including Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10. He lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife and sons.

From Publishers Weekly:

Debut author Finchler and O'Malley (Cinder Edna) comically indulge children's fantasies about their teachers in this ticklish tale. The narrator, convinced that his teacher, Miss Malarkey, lives at school, visualizes her life there after hours: she plays in the gym with the other teachers and sleeps in one of the bunk beds that are surely in the Teachers' Room: "No wonder kids aren't allowed in there. I'm sure teachers don't want us to see their messy room," he reasons. But when Miss Malarkey moves into his apartment house, he learns that teachers have lives outside of school, and they can even be nice, normal neighbors. O'Malley's caricaturish art pictures teachers wearing bunny slippers and engaging in pillow fights, and he adds funny details like a moving van emblazoned with "Bill's Scratch and Dent Movers" and a school menu of frog legs and rabbit stew. An original premise, with lots of kid-appeal. Ages 4-8.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802774989
• ISBN 13: 9780802774989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Finchler Judy