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Your School Is the Best!

Part of The Curious Cockroach

Author Maggie Hutchings
Illustrated by Felicita Sala
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Hardcover
$17.99 US
Tundra | Tundra Books
9.75"W x 11.31"H x 0.4"D  
On sale May 09, 2023 | 40 Pages | 9780735271647
Preschool - 2
Reading Level: Lexile AD370L | Fountas & Pinnell K
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This picture book follows the story of an eager cockroach and his family who hitch a ride to school — with hilarious results. For fans of I Don't Want to Be a Frog.

Everyone’s favorite cockroach from Your Birthday Was the Best! is back, and this time he’s going to school . . . and bringing his whole family along for the ride!

From show-and-tell to arts and crafts, this little stowaway can’t wait to try it all . . . and maybe become the new teachers' pet!

Charming, hilarious and just a tiny bit disgusting, this is a school tale with a twist.
MAGGIE HUTCHINGS is a counselor, family-dispute mediator, writer and artist. She is the author of Your Birthday Was the Best!, Your School Is the Best!, I Saw Pete and Pete Saw Me, The Book for Happy Hearts, Today You Changed the World and many other picture books. She lives in Australia with her family. View titles by Maggie Hutchings
FELICITA SALA received Italy's Premio Andersen for her work illustrating many books for children, including Green on Green by Dianne White; She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lynn Fulton, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez; The Octopus Escapes by Maile Meloy; and Ode to an Onion by Alexandria Giardino. She lives in Rome, Italy. View titles by Felicita Sala
"Perspective determines perception in this comic clash of human and roach viewpoints. . . . Another hilarious outing for the curious cockroach — and readers with strong stomachs." —Kirkus Reviews

"The kooky cockroach’s unwavering, happy-go-lucky obliviousness cannot be exterminated, and this picture book offers laughs along with a dose of gross." —Booklist

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This picture book follows the story of an eager cockroach and his family who hitch a ride to school — with hilarious results. For fans of I Don't Want to Be a Frog.

Everyone’s favorite cockroach from Your Birthday Was the Best! is back, and this time he’s going to school . . . and bringing his whole family along for the ride!

From show-and-tell to arts and crafts, this little stowaway can’t wait to try it all . . . and maybe become the new teachers' pet!

Charming, hilarious and just a tiny bit disgusting, this is a school tale with a twist.

Author

MAGGIE HUTCHINGS is a counselor, family-dispute mediator, writer and artist. She is the author of Your Birthday Was the Best!, Your School Is the Best!, I Saw Pete and Pete Saw Me, The Book for Happy Hearts, Today You Changed the World and many other picture books. She lives in Australia with her family. View titles by Maggie Hutchings
FELICITA SALA received Italy's Premio Andersen for her work illustrating many books for children, including Green on Green by Dianne White; She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lynn Fulton, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez; The Octopus Escapes by Maile Meloy; and Ode to an Onion by Alexandria Giardino. She lives in Rome, Italy. View titles by Felicita Sala

Praise

"Perspective determines perception in this comic clash of human and roach viewpoints. . . . Another hilarious outing for the curious cockroach — and readers with strong stomachs." —Kirkus Reviews

"The kooky cockroach’s unwavering, happy-go-lucky obliviousness cannot be exterminated, and this picture book offers laughs along with a dose of gross." —Booklist

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