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32 reviews for:
Oh No! Not Again!: (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History)
Dan Santat, Mac Barnett
3.42 AVERAGE
32 reviews for:
Oh No! Not Again!: (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History)
Dan Santat, Mac Barnett
3.42 AVERAGE
A lot of the appeal in this picture book is about the humor and the illustrations. I think I like the first one just a bit better.
Husband and I did have a lot of fun reading the "timeline" -- that actually took longer than reading the rest of the book.
Husband and I did have a lot of fun reading the "timeline" -- that actually took longer than reading the rest of the book.
A classic, silly and creative book by Mac Barnett. Here, a girl doesn't like her grade on her history test, so she goes back in time to change history so her answer is correct. Most of the humor is in the entertaining illustrations by Dan Santat, as we see the prehistoric men take over the time machine, wreaking havoc on the present -- and her grade. Oddball humor that I'm sure delights kids!
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What a fun ride this story was. I follow Dan Santat's work and he was the illustrator and that's how I found this exciting and funny story.
Our girl misses a question on her history paper about where the first cave paintings were found. (answer is France, not Belgium). She builds her own time machine, goes back to Belgium 33,000 BC and tries to get Cavemen to draw on the walls. However, they take her time machine and who knows what happens while our girl makes some cave art.
The story is fast paced, funny and lighthearted. I can see just about anyone enjoying this little bit of mischief.
The artwork is great, as expected from Santat. I'm glad I gave this a try. I would totally read this to my nephew when he was younger.
Our girl misses a question on her history paper about where the first cave paintings were found. (answer is France, not Belgium). She builds her own time machine, goes back to Belgium 33,000 BC and tries to get Cavemen to draw on the walls. However, they take her time machine and who knows what happens while our girl makes some cave art.
The story is fast paced, funny and lighthearted. I can see just about anyone enjoying this little bit of mischief.
The artwork is great, as expected from Santat. I'm glad I gave this a try. I would totally read this to my nephew when he was younger.
This was fun. Not quite as fun as the first one, unfortunately. But fun nonetheless.
Aside from the fact that I don't know if kids would get/enjoy this, I just can't get past the point that if you can travel back in time, just go back to the day of your test and put the correct answer...a much simpler plan than changing history so that your original answer was correct. Sheesh.
http://librarianosnark.blogspot.com/2013/01/picture-book-saturday_19.html
The sequel to Oh No! (Or How My Science Report Destroyed the World) takes on history class. The female protagonist messes up her perfect score on a history test by missing the first question: In what modern country do we find the oldest prehistoric cave paintings? So she figures out a simple answer to getting a perfect score: she builds a time machine to change history so that her answer of Belgium is correct. When she finally reaches the right point in history, she is faced with two Neanderthals who aren’t really interested in creating art. They’d much rather stick the paintbrushes up their nose or munch on the paint palette. Spray paint worked even less well. When our hero heads into the cave to do it herself though, the Neanderthals highjack her time machine. What’s that going to do to her history grade?
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.