{"id":309,"date":"2009-01-07T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T03:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/review-of-the-scrambled-states-of-america-talent-show-by-laurie-keller\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:16:13","slug":"review-of-the-scrambled-states-of-america-talent-show-by-laurie-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Scrambled States of America Talent Show, by Laurie Keller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image310\" height=\"208\" alt=\"scrambled_states_talent_show.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/scrambled_states_talent_show.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Scrambled States of America Talent Show<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Laurie Keller<\/p>\n<p>Henry Holt, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauriekeller.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lauriekeller.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryholtkids.com\/\">http:\/\/www.henryholtkids.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A picture book about the States performing in a talent show?\u00a0 In her earlier book, Laurie Keller showed what happened when the States got mixed up and tried to find their places again.\u00a0 The States had so much fun interacting, they decide to hold a talent show.<\/p>\n<p>The result is simply silly, and I can&#8217;t resist laughing over it.\u00a0 Along the way, all kinds of facts about the states are presented, along with lots of inside jokes.<\/p>\n<p>The acts are many and varied.\u00a0 Delaware names all fifty states in order of statehood while jumping on a pogo stick.\u00a0 Michigan does a ventriloquist act.\u00a0 Minnesota saws South Dakota in half (though alert readers will detect that the left half is the color of North Dakota), and Mississippi and Nevada dance the tango.\u00a0 I especially enjoyed the State Impersonators.\u00a0 Wyoming and Tennessee impersonated Oklahoma, and Colorado and Florida did a great Idaho impression.<\/p>\n<p>Extra fun was found on the end panels, where Vermont goes around asking states their abbreviations, for example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, Hawaii.\u00a0 What&#8217;s your abbreviation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, hello.\u00a0 What&#8217;s your abbreviation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What can I say?\u00a0 This book struck me funny.\u00a0 A nice silly approach to learning facts about the states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805079971\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/scrambled_states_talent_show.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/scrambled_states_talent_show.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scrambled States of America Talent Show by Laurie Keller Henry Holt, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages. http:\/\/www.lauriekeller.com\/ http:\/\/www.henryholtkids.com\/ A picture book about the States performing in a talent show?\u00a0 In her earlier book, Laurie Keller showed what happened when the States got mixed up and tried to find their places again.\u00a0 The States had so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}