Roscoe Riley Rules 4 Books in 1!: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs / Never Swipe a Bully's Bear / Don't Swap Your Sweater for a Dog / Never Swim in Applesauce

Roscoe Riley Rules #1-4

by Katherine Applegate, Brian Biggs (Illustrator)

A brand-new bind-up of the first four books in the hilarious Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series by Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal–winning and bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan. This collection features a fresh new look from cover artist Brian Biggs as well as Roscoe’s Time-Out Activities, including loads of lists, games, and more.

Roscoe doesn’t mean to break the rules, but he always seems to land himself in trouble. Whenever he tries to help—whether he’s at school, in his neighborhood, or on a field trip—things just never go as planned.

Roscoe and his comical misadventures will appeal to fans of Megan McDonald’s Stink series, Nancy Krulik’s George Brown, Class Clown series, and Dan Gutman’s My Weird School series.

Follow Roscoe’s rules and you’ll be sure to avoid the same mistakes and save yourself a trip to time-out: 


#1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs #2: Never Swipe a Bully’s Bear #3: Don’t Swap Your Sweater for a Dog #4: Never Swim in Applesauce

448 pages, Hardcover

Published June 7, 2016

About the author

#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.

Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).

She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).

Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).

With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)

Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.

Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.

Reviews

[Matthew Hodge · Rating 3 out of 5]

You get the idea after one or two of these stories, never mind four of them, but my six-year-old was delighted with all of them.

Each book starts with Roscoe in time out and then expands as he explains how events led him to his punishment. There is a certain amusement as Roscoe grapples with trying to work out the complicated rules that grown-ups seem to expect him to live by. After all, did you know there was a rule which said you couldn't glue your friends to their chair?

[Lindsay Bray · Rating 3 out of 5]

3-3.5 stars. A fun book to read with kids or for kids to read on their own. I even found myself laughing at some of the antics Riley came up with. Some of the stories were definitely better than others, we were not a fan of the second book, “Never Swipe a Bully’s Bear.” The kids lost interest in this one halfway through and I didn’t personally care for the premise. I’d say Roscoe Riley is a boy version of Junie B Jones. Cute and enjoyable.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

DNF: pretty cutsie. High spirited kid gets in lots of trouble,

[Migo Oh]

great book ;) :) :) :>)