A review by kelleemoye
Baloney (Henry P.) by Jon Scieszka

3.0

I had a very hard time getting through this the first time. There were so many "made up" words that I know kids would get frustrated. At times there were so many that I think they'd have trouble inferring what they meant. Then I got to the end and saw there was a decoder- AH! Take two... then it wasn't as bad. I think this picture book would be good for older kids 6+ and would be great to use to practice context clues before looking at the decoder. Which, by the way, the "made up" words are words from all sorts of different language- so neat!

Reread November 22, 2012