The Show and Tell War and Other Stories about Adam Joshua

The Adam Joshua Capers

by Janice Lee Smith

Five stories relate the adventures and misadventures of Adam Joshua as he contends with the first day of school, pretending to be sick, stealing a library book, making the scariest Halloween costume, and being upstaged at show-and-tell time.

Genres: Childrens

162 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

She lives and plays in Colorado with her husband, Jim, and their dogs Rosie and Bailey.

Honors/Awards:
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference scholarship, 1981, and fellowship, 1982
Named among the Outstanding Young Women of America, 1981
Indiana Arts Commission/National Endowment for the Arts master arts fellowship grant, 1984, for The Show-and-Tell War, and for The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches: Stories about Adam Joshua
The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches was selected an International Reading Association Children's Choice, 1985
Addi Award, 1987, for advertising booklet

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very funny.

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book and its so nostalgic and i read it years ago and i still have it so i have re-read it recently and want to again cause i wanted to be a writer so bad as a kid and i just wanted to be this kid! So yeah fun, easy read. Love it cause i still low-key want to be a writer but yeah... lol

[Veronica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apparently "I didn't really like this book."

[Horace Mann Family Reading Challenge · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is about two boys that hate each other a lot. And it is also about a war going on in show and tell between Elliot and Adam Joshua. JN.