Welcome back to Wayside School, where things are about to get EVEN stranger in this brilliant and quirky instalment of the Wayside School series - from Louis Sachar, author of the bestselling novel Holes
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Welcome back to Wayside School, where things are about to get EVEN stranger in this brilliant and quirky instalment of the Wayside School series - from Louis Sachar, author of the bestselling novel Holes
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When a substitute teacher is called to stand in for Mrs Jewls, it can mean only one thing – strange things are going to happen at Wayside School. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the thirtieth floor. There are dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and an orange named Fido, causing a terrible commotion. Not to mention the arrival of the POOPS handbook in the playground …Enjoy all the fun in this enormously humorous and quirky introduction to Louis Sachar's famously dry wit. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff. This is an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.
Critic Reviews
“Thirty clever, fast-moving stories that describe the bizarre events at Wayside School ... each story is refreshingly different”
Louis Sachar is one of the few masters of American fiction Independent on Sunday on Louis Sachar
Guardian on SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL
Magic and hard realism come crashing together. This is an extraordinary and unconventional novel Observer on HOLES
About the Author
Louis Sachar is the author of the international bestseller and award-winning Holes, which was made into a film in 2003. All of Louis's books for children have been published in the UK by Bloomsbury. These also include Small Steps, Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Someday Angeline, and the Marvin Redpost series and Wayside School books. Louis Sachar lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, daughter and two dogs.Aleksei Bitskoff was born in Estonia and graduated with a master's in Illustration from Camberwell College of Arts, London, in 2010. His influences include Russian illustrators and animators, as well as Tove Jansson and the Moomintrolls. Aleksei lives in London with his wife and their two children.
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