{"id":35942,"date":"2019-02-26T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35942"},"modified":"2019-02-26T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:33:10","slug":"review-of-we-dont-eat-our-classmates-by-ryan-t-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35942","title":{"rendered":"Review of We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We Don\u2019t Eat Our Classmates<\/em><\/p>\n

by Ryan T. Higgins<\/p>\n

Disney Hyperion, 2018. 40 pages.
\nStarred Review
\nReview written June 20, 2018 from library book
\n2018 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>:
\n#1 Picture Books – Silly Fun<\/p>\n

Before I looked at the copy of this book that had come to the library for me, I heard my co-worker laughing over it in the next cubicle. We ended up getting everyone else in that section of the office to read it. The tone and pictures are brilliant.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give a little taste, though you really need to check this book out to see the pictures that go with it. By the way, there\u2019s a picture of Penelope on the title page saying, \u201cHey kids! You will never be eaten by a T. rex. They are extinct. I promise!\u201d<\/p>\n

The book begins:<\/p>\n

Penelope Rex was nervous. It\u2019s not every day a little T. rex starts school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She\u2019s worried whether her classmates will be nice and how many teeth they will have. But when she gets to school:<\/p>\n

Penelope Rex was very surprised to find out that all of her classmates were CHILDREN!<\/p>\n

So she ate them.<\/p>\n

Because children are delicious.<\/p>\n

\u201cPenelope Rex!\u201d said Mrs. Noodleman,
\n\u201cWE DON\u2019T EAT OUR CLASSMATES! Please spit them out at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

So she did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The picture of the angry children covered in drool and digestive juices is delightfully disgusting.<\/p>\n

More pictures as Penelope tries to make friends show things like waiting at the bottom of the slide \u2013 with her mouth open. Penelope starts to notice that the other kids don\u2019t want to get near her.<\/p>\n

No problems-at-school book would be complete without a conversation with the parents.<\/p>\n

When she got home, her dad asked about her first day of school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t make any friends!\u201d Penelope cried. \u201cNone of the children wanted to play with me!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPenelope Rex,\u201d her father asked, \u201cdid you eat your classmates?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell . . . maybe sort of just a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to make friends,\u201d said her dad. \u201cEspecially if you eat them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see, Penelope, children are the same as us on the inside. Just tastier.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The next day, a lesson comes for Penelope in an unexpected way.<\/p>\n

This book is too much fun! In fact, I\u2019m sad that it came in one week after we finished booktalking this year. It\u2019s already going on my list for next year. Very silly. Very fun. There\u2019s nothing quite like a picture book that makes you laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time. The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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