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  <title><![CDATA[Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka]]></title>
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  <default-description>How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is &lt;i&gt;Knucklehead&lt;/i&gt;. Part memoir, part scrapbook, this hilarious trip down memory lane provides a unique glimpse into the formation of a creative mind and a free spirit.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Today I went on a field trip with my students to see this author speak. He is the first Ambassador of Young People's Literature and the author of many hilarious books. Part of my librarianing is storytelling--without books. I talk to the kids, tell them stories about my youth or current life and enc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33827497">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun May 18 09:02:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very quick and enjoyable read.  I read the ARC (as the book is due out this fall) and will be curious to see how it looks in its final form.  It consists of a series of short amusing stories about the author's childhood.  Very boyish, lighthearted, and a lot of fun to read.  There are sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22482641">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 24 05:00:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a treat! The format is so appealing - it looks <br/>like a comic book and the chapters are short and filled with the <br/>exploits of 6 little boys growing up in Flint, Michigan. Boys will <br/>love this book! If you are a boy, were a boy, grew up with boys or <br/>raised or taught boys you wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25288334">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 08 12:50:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book triggered great memories from my own childhood.  I wasn't a &quot;boy&quot; but did all the boy kind of things with my older brother.  For me it was a walk back through time.  Even down to the fort playing war, I lived in an open area, blowing up models.  My brother and I would spend hours...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48571044">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[To adults that don’t normally wander through the shelves of children’s literature the notion of the autobiography for kids is a pretty odd beast.  You write a book about yourself, sure.  But why would you make the primary audience for that book people who think that boogers and farts are the hei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27050405">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm, reading this book I discovered that even though I didn't grow up in Flint, Michigan, wasn't a boy, and didn't have 5 brothers, some of my experiences eerily paralleled those of Jon Scieszka. We didn't have a huge underground sewer pipe to explore but we did have a cave that reached deep into th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34505901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51363462">
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m admittedly not a huge fan of Sciezska’s work in the YA genre, I have been a great admirer of his efforts to promote literacy for young boys. (A sure way to my heart, having been a picky and somewhat reluctant reader myself in my elementary years.) And when I saw this beautifully bound memoir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51363462">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka<br/>by Jon Scieszka<br/>Published by Viking<br/>2008<br/>Non-Fiction: Autobiography<br/><br/>Jon Scieszka tells tales of his childhood in Knucklehead.  The book is very funny and especially appealing to young boys.  Relucta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50653486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jon Scieszka has five brothers. Jon Scieszka is a funny writer. Ergo, Jon Scieszka's stories about growing up with his five brothers = funny. Oh yeah - I laughed out loud. I read bits aloud to the librarians in the workroom who wanted to know just what was so damn funny, and they laughed out loud. B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45724522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes, reading a book is like getting to the end of a bag of peanut M&amp;Ms - you slow down, savoring things, hoping that the end won’t come. Essentially a collection of short stories about family and growing up, “Knucklehead” fits this profile. Funny, honest, and infinitely readable, Jon Sci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41518880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jon grew up with his parents and his 5 brothers in a small house in Flint, Michigan.  The brothers got into plenty of scraps with one another, which earned them the fond “knuckleheads!” appellation from their father.  My favorite story is the one where Jon and his brother “put out” their spa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40648444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The problem with Jon Scieszka is that I like him so unabashedly that I'm not sure I can be objective about his books.  He is funny in a silly but not an immature way. He is honest with kids (laughingly admitting that not only does he watch t.v - uh, ah, hush. hush. but he gets ideas from t.v.) His r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63420594">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scieska's memoir of his childhood with five brothers is hilarious and touching.  It is great snapshot of what life was like for a lot of kids in 50s and 60s America...I just wish it had an introduction that talked a bit about how life has changed...<br/><br/>Cindy and I saw Scieska at the National...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47746112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed out loud in almost ever chapter and I read the entire book in about 30 minutes. What a blast!<br/><br/>I loved this book! Like a mom a boy I sometimes need to know that my own kids are not the only crazy people on the planet. Jon Scieszka and his brothers were crazy too--maybe even crazi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47780616">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Jon Scieszka's books, and was looking forward to this autobiography, but it's kinda . . . slight.  It isn't so much an autobiography as a collection of anecdotes about growing up in a family with six boys -- the kind of stories that you could see being traded around at family reunions, or aro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53286813">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Knucklehead, but even more fun was watching my husband read it. Like Scieszka, he is one of six brothers, and he chortled his whole way through the book. I'll be curious to find out if young kids appreciate the book or if some knowledge/experience of growing up in the 60s is needed....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24709969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading about Jon Scieszka's childhood growing up with 5 brothers in Flint, Michigan, was like hearing my dad's stories about growing up with 7 brothers and sisters in a small town in upstate New York. There are so many common themes from childhood in the 1950s and '60s:  lots of time with family, C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63637778">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Dec 19 13:48:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a quick and hilarious read, a childhood memoir of Jon Scieszka's childhood in Flint, MI, growing up with five brothers.  If you don't find yourself laughing uproariously at least once, you must not have a Funny Bone in your body.  I'm not a particular fan of slapstick or SGS (Stupid Guy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40481372">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very entertaining book.  Given the age of the author, I could really relate to the props of his youth.  Gi Joes, comic books, nuns, long trips in a packed car... Each chapter is entertaining in and of itself.  <br/>I just don't know how I would use the book in the classroom.  I think frien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73334657">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 12:42:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[J 813.54 S Two page essays provide insights of a family of 6 boys and 2 parents in a smallish house on a tight budget in the 50s &amp; 60s.  ANY boy or adult would enjoy reading this..the writing is so humorous, each chapter nice and short including photograghs and drawings, and the antics are, well eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38954560">more...</a>]]></body>
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