Day Jake Vacuumed

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With an outsize gift for comic hyperbole, James (Leon and Bob) launches a trio of infectiously funny paperbacks in the U.S. starring a kid with an Attila-like talent for laying waste to his surroundings. Each book begins with the same two sentences "Jake was difficult. Jake was a problem" and then proceeds with a plot that goes goofily haywire. In Babysitter, for example, the giggles arise from something James wryly leaves unstated in the text that Jake's caretaker is actually a gorilla, who is trying to pass for human with a hilariously ill-fitting wardrobe (Jake's parents don't notice because they're grateful anyone will show up to baby-sit their bad seed, while Jake is overjoyed to find someone who shares his delight in destruction).The tables turn with equally madcap results in Sidney, when Jake looks after his baby cousin. In Vacuumed, the most imaginative entry, the pint-size anti-hero discovers that he can hoover up the family cat, then reasons that if he's going to get in trouble, "I might as well make it big trouble!" and vacuums up his entire family and their belongings (plus "a whole page of this book"). In his exuberant watercolor cartoons, James visually articulates Jake's unalloyed enjoyment of his own incorrigibility by letting Jake's mischievous grin occupy most of his face and a black-ink scribble suffice for his hair. Jake's glee (and his ability to emerge undaunted from the wreckage) should tickle the Dennis the Menace that lurks within even the most well-behaved child. Ages 3-7. (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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ISBN-13: 9780763617998
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 7/22/2002
Edition description: 1ST US
Pages: 32
Age range: 3 - 7 Years
Product dimensions: 8.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.15 (d)

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Anonymous

Posted August 5, 2008

Cute Book for my 5 year old son

My 5 yr old son is obsessed with vacuums. This book is about a little boy whose mother asks him to vacuum but he doesn't want to do it. He plays with the vacuum and discovers the powerful suction. He sucks up everyone . . . mom, dad, sister, cat . . . and eventually his room. The vacuum bursts open. Everyone tumbles out. He is in trouble. His parents send him to his room without dinner but he doesn't care because he knows he will never have to vacuum again. My child thought it was hilarious.
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Anonymous

Posted December 17, 2005

What a fun book!!!!

This book is fantastic!! It's fun and easy to read to kids and it keeps their attention!! My son read this for the first time when he was in Kindergarten or so and now he is 18 and if you ask him what his favorite kids book is he would tell you this one!!! It made him laugh and smile and learn to like books!!
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