Miss Butterpat Goes Wild! (Teachers' Secrets) - Hardcover

Yorke, Malcolm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564582000 ISBN 13: 9781564582003

Publisher: Dk Pub, 1993

Synopsis

Her pupils never suspect that their mild-mannered teacher, Miss Butterpat, spends summer vacations hang-gliding or tangling with boa constrictors in the wild, but they soon find out teachers like to have fun too.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

Curled up in the teachers' room with her knitting and tea, Miss Cushy Butterpat is the epitome of dull; when she tells her class that, during vacation, she ``might stow away on a ship to South America, explore the jungle, live with a tribe of Indians, canoe down the river...'', they say, ``You do tell whoppers.'' But that's what she does, though her adventures, which comprise most of the book, are even more exciting, especially in Chamberlain's lively, cartoony illustrations. After a first-class journey home on a luxury liner, paid for with poker winnings from a wicked, pistol-packing bandit, Miss Butterpat goes back to school, where the other teachers don't bother to ask what she's been doing and her pupils don't believe her tale. One of two entries in the new Teachers' Secrets series (Jackie Vivelo's Mr. Scatter's Magic Spell, ISBN: 1-56458-201-9, is about an absent- minded teacher/magician), this is light fare that's liable to amuse primary-grade readers even if they don't take the comically exaggerated message about teachers to heart. (Young reader/Picture book. 5-9) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Although the premise of a teacher secretly becoming a fearless adventurer works for Indiana Jones, it does not succeed in these first installments of the Teachers' Secrets series. During her summer vacation, the presumably dull Miss Butterpat pretends to be a sailor, goes to South America, explores the jungle, joins an Indian tribe, defeats a wicked bandit and returns home just in time to start school again. When she explains how she has spent the summer, her students simply laugh. In the second story, Mr. Scatter's pupils have no idea that he is actually the Magnificent Scarlotti, the renowned magician who performs at a school assembly. Although the premise has potential, neither author offers more than an ultimately tiresome liturgy of particular exploits. Chamberlain redeems these volumes to some degree with her puckish illustrations, which energetically incorporate dialogue balloons, sidebars and plenty of grinning characters. Ages 6-9.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1564582000
• ISBN 13: 9781564582003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Chamberlain Margaret