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ericarobyn's review against another edition
4.0
The Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler, illustrated by Jared Lee is a humorous tale about the rumors kids have passed around and the fear about the first day of school where everything is new.
These books were another staple from my childhood! I remember really loving the silliness of these tales as a kid. Granted, I read these in a time where our principal would threaten to, "string you up by your toes and hang you from the basketball hoops" if we were misbehaving, so my sense of what was okay to joke about and what was not may have already been a little skewed.
I think the tales would be a fun read for a kid that may be a little nervous about their first day as it would help them see that there isn't anything to worry about.
In this tale, our main character is off to his first day of school. He's nervous about who his teacher will be. Before class, he's so exhausted that he shuts his eyes. The next thing he knows, Mrs Green walks in and she's a real monster!
She does very scary things to each of the kids in class ranging from dismembering them, to biting one of them in half. Granted, this is written in a very humorous way that most kids will laugh at, it could be a bit much for some readers.
But good news! It was all a dream. The real Mrs Green walks into the classroom, startling our main character awake and boy is he relieved to see her!
These books were another staple from my childhood! I remember really loving the silliness of these tales as a kid. Granted, I read these in a time where our principal would threaten to, "string you up by your toes and hang you from the basketball hoops" if we were misbehaving, so my sense of what was okay to joke about and what was not may have already been a little skewed.
I think the tales would be a fun read for a kid that may be a little nervous about their first day as it would help them see that there isn't anything to worry about.
In this tale, our main character is off to his first day of school. He's nervous about who his teacher will be. Before class, he's so exhausted that he shuts his eyes. The next thing he knows, Mrs Green walks in and she's a real monster!
She does very scary things to each of the kids in class ranging from dismembering them, to biting one of them in half. Granted, this is written in a very humorous way that most kids will laugh at, it could be a bit much for some readers.
But good news! It was all a dream. The real Mrs Green walks into the classroom, startling our main character awake and boy is he relieved to see her!
amandaquotidianbooks's review against another edition
3.0
I appreciate the exploration of childhood anxiety and how the dream explained the wild imaginations. I wish we had seen Mrs. Green do nice things. The ending reinforces the harmful belief that beauty and goodness determine each other, which is wrong.
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