Oh No! Not Again!: (Or How I Built a Time Machine to save History) (Or at Least My History Grade)

by Mac Barnett, Dan Santat (Illustrator)

Overview

Beloved author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett and bestselling creator Dan Santat team up for this truly epic time-traveling follow up to Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World)!

Some kids are too smart for their own good...and maybe for everybody else's good. The overly ambitious little girl from Oh No! is back for more. But this time, she doesn't have a humongous problem, she has an EPIC crisis on her hands: a mere A on her history test! There's only one solution: travel back in time to 33,000 B.C. to make her wrong answer right! Mac Barnett and Dan Santat's laugh-out-loud sequel to the critically acclaimed Oh No! will be sure to tickle a prehistoric funny bone for fans of humor, comics, and outrageous adventure.

* "Wonderfully ridiculous." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Don't miss the book that started it all, Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423149125
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	06/05/2012
Series:	An Oh No! Picture Book
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	11.70(w) x 10.16(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mac Barnett is the author of many books for children, including Extra Yarn, illustrated by John Klassen, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, a New York Times bestseller; Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Other titles include The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, Chloe and the Lion, and Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem. He is the co-author, with Jory John, of the New York Times bestselling series The Terrible Two. Mac lives in California.

Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We There Yet?, After the Fall, as well as the illustrator including Drawn Together and Lift by Minh Lê, The Alphabet's Alphabet by Chris Harris, and Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. Dan lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and various pets. His website is dantat.com.

Editorial Reviews

* "Wonderfully ridiculous in premise and execution."—Kirkus Reviews

* "Barnett's deadpan prose and Santat's page-popping art hilariously reveal what happens when you mess with history, while delivering a light message about the perils of perfectionism."—Publishers Weekly

"Santat's bright digital illustrations with lots of graphic elements capture the feel of the cinema....Readers will especially enjoy the hapless cave guys who have no idea what to do with paintbrushes and spray paint but seem to know how to drive the time-travel mobile. Whether they are shoving paintbrushes up their noses, spray-painting their faces, or stabbing each other with pencils, readers will find these Cave Stooges irresistible."—Horn Book

From the Publisher

Having recovered from the world-destroying science project she created in the first Oh No! (2010), Barnett's overachiever has a new dilemma: Her history test is returned with one point off for an incorrect answer. Noting that "Belgium" is not the country where the oldest prehistoric cave paintings exist, she devises a solution completely out of proportion to the problem. Using a "Phun Times" Kiddie Pool as a foundation, she builds a time machine to alter history. After a few glitches (landing in a pre-Neanderthal world and then in the French Revolution), she finds her Belgian cavemen. As in the companion story, the digital compositions are framed with black horizontal borders and marked with white vertical lines to establish a cinematic context. The plot unfolds through speech bubbles, the faux-technical diagrams on graph paper covering the endpapers and the extremely funny actions and expressions of Santat's caricatures. Children will relish the two cavemen's antics: They stick paintbrushes in their noses, chomp on the palette and spray paint each other. The duo gives the transporter a spin while the frustrated scholar decorates the cave herself. She emerges to find one sporting Napoleon's hat, a Roman chariot speeding by and other anachronisms--not to mention an "F" on her test, now that history has been rearranged. Wonderfully ridiculous in premise and execution and abounding in creative touches, this will surely spark student spinoffs. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews