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Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World
by
Mac Barnett,
Dan Santat (Goodreads Author)
It's a terrible thing when a giant robot starts destroying your city.
It's even worse when it's your fault.
It's even worse when it's your fault.
Hardcover, 36 pages
Published
June 1st 2010
by Disney-Hyperion
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Things started off well for the young girl in this story. She wins first place at the science fair, but unfortunately the robot is a little too life-like. The giant robot starts to rampage! To further complicate matters, she not only gave it a superclaw, she also installed a laser eye and the power to control dogs’ minds. After many failed attempts to stop the robot gone wild, the girl creates a new plan: she creates a giant, fighting toad. What will happen when the toad and the robot have an e...more
Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) is the story of a young girl whose science project (a giant robot) wins first prize at the science fair and is admired by everyone...until it escapes the school gym and starts terrorizing the city. She realizes how big her problem is (in more ways than one) when she remembers that she didn't give the robot ears to hear, or the ability to read, or the ability to feel pain, all of which are incredibly important if one is trying to stop a gia...more
This remarkable story is a legitimate SF picture book for younger kids, although I think they need to be old enough to understand what a science fair is. Thus, it falls in the category of picture books for kids who are already able to read chapter books, but might read a picture book for fun. Think of it as being at the same level as some of the Dr. Seuss books, like Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
The basic story, of a science fair project gone wild, is cute and clever. I found that I could easily...more
The basic story, of a science fair project gone wild, is cute and clever. I found that I could easily...more
It all started when a smart girl builds a giant robot as a science project. When it goes on a rampage, she realizes all of the features that she should have included and ones that it definitely should not have, like the laser eye. She also realizes that it is up to her to stop it. She tries to communicate with it, but when that and hitting it fail, she comes up with another solution. She builds a gigantic toad programmed to destroy the robot. And it works! Now just to solve the problem of what c...more
I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with a name for this new breed of children's book author/illustrator we're seeing these days. It's a genre without a name. We're seeing a lot of picture books these days that engage kids, but also turn on their heads classic picture book forms. It started with books like The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and now includes titles like Pssst or The Purple Kangaroo or Guess Again. Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroye...more
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Review pertains to hardcover ediction.
OH NO! (OR HOW MY SCIENCE PROJECT DESTROYED THE WORLD) is a very entertaining fantasy picture book written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Dan Santat. The format is old-fashioned Japanese monster movie with elements of a modern day graphic novel. The book opens with the action already in motion. Our protagonist is walking; the speech balloon reads, “I knew it.” The destruction behind her indicates something terrible has happened and she might have some kno...more
OH NO! (OR HOW MY SCIENCE PROJECT DESTROYED THE WORLD) is a very entertaining fantasy picture book written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Dan Santat. The format is old-fashioned Japanese monster movie with elements of a modern day graphic novel. The book opens with the action already in motion. Our protagonist is walking; the speech balloon reads, “I knew it.” The destruction behind her indicates something terrible has happened and she might have some kno...more
OH NO! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed The World) by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Dan Santat. In this movie like, graphic novel like, picture book, a nameless pigtailed girl wins her science fair and is in for some trouble. With the speech bubbles in the beginning, “Oh no”, “Oh man…”, “I knew it” and the dark shadow looming over the city as the pigtailed girl walks down a destroyed street, you can’t help but to turn the page to find out what happens. As the story unfolds the nameless girl...more
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This is a great book for all sorts of reasons. It’s a good read for a wide range of age levels, the intelligent star of the story is a clever GIRL, science fairs are portrayed as quite the cool thing, visually it’s a picture book, but really, this is a deluxe graphic novel and finally, it’s hilarious!
The author does not share the girl’s first name, but we do learn very quickly that her blue ribbon science fair project (a giant robot) is destroying the world! She tries everything in her power to...more
The author does not share the girl’s first name, but we do learn very quickly that her blue ribbon science fair project (a giant robot) is destroying the world! She tries everything in her power to...more
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I added Oh No! to our reading list after:
1) seeing that so many of my Goodreads friends have read this.
2) seeing that it pertained to a girl doing a science project.
3) seeing that it sort of had a graphic novel flavor.
My niece loves science, and I want to encourage that, so if we have books about a science fair project going haywire, so much the better. Sometimes our scientific endeavors get away from us, after all, and a little fun mayhem never hurts in a story. My niece also likes graphic nove...more
1) seeing that so many of my Goodreads friends have read this.
2) seeing that it pertained to a girl doing a science project.
3) seeing that it sort of had a graphic novel flavor.
My niece loves science, and I want to encourage that, so if we have books about a science fair project going haywire, so much the better. Sometimes our scientific endeavors get away from us, after all, and a little fun mayhem never hurts in a story. My niece also likes graphic nove...more
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Some kids are too smart for their own good ... and maybe for everybody else’s good. When an overambitious little girl builds a humongous robot for the science fair, she fully expects to win first place. What she doesn’t expect is the chaos that follows. Mac Barnett and illustrator Dan Santat combine forces to create a hilarious kid’s-eye account of the kind of destruction that can come only from a child’s good intentions. This book is sure to appeal to kids and parents familiar with the ordeal o...more
Oh no! is about a girl who creates a robot for a science fair and it gets free and starts to destroy the city. she talks about how she should have created the robot differently. She then creates a giant frog to destroy the robot and then the frog escapes. I did not like this book due to the style. It was comic book like and jumped around and said a lot more through the pictures than through the words.
This would be for students around 1st grade and kindergarten. This is because they are few wor...more
This would be for students around 1st grade and kindergarten. This is because they are few wor...more
Underneath the visually arresting dust jacket, which cleverly doubles on the reverse as a vertical poster, is what appears to be a coffee-stained notebook. Blueprint-styled endpapers provide technical drawings and details for a robot (front) and a growth ray device for a frog (back). The graphic novel design of the sci-fi story is spot-on. Despite the author's restrained use of captions and word bubbles, young children or limited-skill readers will have little difficulty following Dan Santat's s...more
This book was really cute! It's about a little girl who is way too ambitious for her own good. She wants to participate in a science fair, and she thinks it will be a lot of fun! So she goes ALL out, and makes a huge robot! Well, all of this crazy stuff starts happening, and her science project ends up getting out of control, and it looks like it is going to take over the whole world! I think this book would be used for elementary school students. It's just a fun book to show how ambitious kids...more
This is a fantastic picture book with a ton of kid AND adult appeal. A girl builds a giant robot for the science fair, but her success quickly turns to disaster when the robot goes on a rampage throughout the city, in scenes that pay homage to monster movies like Godzilla (with little snippets of Japanese text throughout to drive that reference in). Fun, witty, and slick, Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World is great for read alouds and for one-on-one reading (so you can see all...more
So brilliant, so fun, so design-y gorgeous in every way! D and I have had tons of fun investigating these illustrations, and the story is super empowering--for school science fairs everywhere! Also for well-meaning geniuses. Bonus points that our scientist burdened with saving the world from her own creation is a girl. (Minus points for me, for being the only person I know of who has pointed this out. Please ignore that I said anything, and give this book to all the boy children you know immedia...more
Talk about coincidence; the very day I picked up this book on hold from my public library, I cleaned out OLD email (2010) and came across the book trailer for this very same book. (which I don't ever recall hearing about until last week) http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/...
I like the concept, but watching the book trailer took longer than reading the book. As a former science teacher, I got a kick out of the stereotypical awful science projects some of the other students presented (solar sys...more
I like the concept, but watching the book trailer took longer than reading the book. As a former science teacher, I got a kick out of the stereotypical awful science projects some of the other students presented (solar sys...more
I was handed this book by a library page, who said he had to show it to someone, because it is an "awesome book." And he was right.
It's about a girl's science fair project. She starts off narrating, "I never should have built a robot for the science fair. Everything was going so well... until the rampage started, that is. I probably shouldn't have given it a superclaw, or a laser eye, or the power to control dogs' minds."
No, no she shouldn't have:
That's just EVIL!!!
For fans of cheesy SF and Jap...more
It's about a girl's science fair project. She starts off narrating, "I never should have built a robot for the science fair. Everything was going so well... until the rampage started, that is. I probably shouldn't have given it a superclaw, or a laser eye, or the power to control dogs' minds."
No, no she shouldn't have:
That's just EVIL!!!
For fans of cheesy SF and Jap...more
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From the humorous and strange mind of Mac Barnett, this picture book is a great new addition the the library. In this book a little girl builds a robot for her science fair project. However, the robot goes on a rampage, and the reader discovers that the little girl inventor failed to program or teach it key things that would help her stop it from destroying the world. In a great 2 page spread, she goes back to her laboratory in order to create a solution to the mayhem that the robot is causing,...more
Oh my goodness, I love this book and so will my students.
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The book is a bit larger, and the illustrations of the book take up both pages so you are viewing very large images; which is great because this is all about a science project gone awry. The majority of the book is the girl trying to stop her runaway robot from terrorizing the city. The use of different font size as well as the illustrations is really what makes this book come alive. It’s amusing, entertaining reading that is great for early elementary. This book won the Golden Duck award in 201...more
This book almost plays out like a 60s Japanese sci-fi movie, as it is about an escaped science fair project (a robot with laser eyes, dog mind control and a super claw) that is terrorizing a young girl's city. The detailed illustrations are what get me, as they are genius. For example, the girl's school is "Home of the Fighting Jackalopes" which are a made-up rabbit/antelope hybrid; or all the signs in Japanese; or the dogs wearing aluminum helmets to protect themselves from the robot. The girl...more
A little girl builds a robot for her science fair but it starts attacking. She goes over all of the things she should have done to stop it. As a solution, she makes a frog grow to enormous heights to defeat it...and then the frog attacks. Just as ridiculous and awesome as Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, this would be a great individual read or one on one. It is sure to make kids laugh!
This book would be good to use as an activating strategy for a science fair activity. I can remember teachers introducing the science fair. It was never offered as something in which we could use our imaginations to challenge ourselves and explore possibilities. Although this book does venture on an extreme science "project" which would not occur in our world, it would be a good book to read in order to get student's minds thinking about ideas, even in an abstract way!
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I thought this science fiction picture book was interesting and fun to read. I like the over size pictures of the robot. The girl in the story was very clever as she created a robot for a science fair project and the robot ended up destroying the town. The girl's solution was create another robot to destroy the robot that was destroying the town. As a lesson plan, I would have students create their own solution for saving the town.
I tagged this one "graphic novel" because I could see it being a great one to hand to younger kids (or beginning readers, even) who like a comic book feel. Even though this truly isn't a comic book or a graphic novel, it has that vibe about it. Though the illustrations might fool you (it looks like it's for older kids), the story is simplistic enough for littler ones. Very enjoyable read!
A humorous book that has breathtaking illustrations by the talented Dan Santat. The pictures tell the whole story, and what a whopper of a tale it is when a smart girl enters the science fair with her out-of-control robot, who is bent on the destruction of her city. Apparently the young lady makes a hero out of a frog, and all is well again - well, almost.
Recommended for grades second and up.
Recommended for grades second and up.
I. Loved. This. Book. First, this book definitely fulfills my search for a sci fi picture book. Second, I loved that the boo began and ended with labeled illustrations and scientific information about the elements in the book. Third, I love that the book is almost like a mini-graphic novel. The illustrations bring the story to life. I cannot wait to share this with my students.
A girl's science project is a robot, that runs loose in the city. She decides there are a lot of things she should have added to the robot and then comes up with a great way to get the robot until control (or destroyed). This would be great for 2nd grade robots units. The students could design their own robot and describe what features they added and why the features are important.
A girl creates a robot for the science fair, but leaves out some programming that would stop it from destroying the world. Never fear, though; she creates a giant toad that can stop the robot. Of course, the giant robot-stopping toad creates problems of its own......
Pick up this book as much for the illustrations as for the text. Lots of humor in the details.
Pick up this book as much for the illustrations as for the text. Lots of humor in the details.
Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World simply delightful. Who didn't dream as a kid of having a science experiement go bad?
And those who can read Japanese will get a kick out of the background text as well.
And those who can read Japanese will get a kick out of the background text as well.
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Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac now lives near San Francisco. He's on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students in Los Angeles, and he founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers.
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Jun 18, 2010 06:22pm