I'm Afraid Your Teddy Is in the Principal's Office

by Jancee Dunn, Scott Nash (Illustrator)

Overview

What do your favorite toys get up to when you’re at school? Teddy and friends bring their creative mayhem to the classroom in a gleefully vicarious comic romp.

What would happen if your teddy bear stowed away in your backpack and followed you to school? And what if your teddy convinced all your friends’ stuffed animals to come along for the party? Would you believe they might sneak into the cafeteria to play Pizza Disc, head to the band room to put bubbles in the wind instruments, make a clever glue trap for the art teacher, and roll around in finger paint as well? Luckily, the principal remembers what it was like to be young and may let the rambunctious teddy bear and crew off just this once. Author Jancee Dunn and illustrator Scott Nash bring Teddy and friends back for more mischief in a high-spirited tale of uninhibited fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536201987
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	167,315
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jancee Dunn is the author of I’m Afraid Your Teddy Is in Trouble Today, illustrated by Scott Nash. She has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Vogue, Parents, and O: The Oprah Magazine, as well as many books for adults. Jancee Dunn lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn.

Scott Nash is the creator of the illustrated middle-grade novel The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate, the early reader Tuff Fluff, and Shrunken Treasures. He is also the illustrator of I’m Afraid Your Teddy Is in Trouble Today by Jancee Dunn, Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Carol Diggory Shields, and many other children’s books. He lives on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland, Maine.

Editorial Reviews

Children will surely chuckle at the stuffed friends’ antics, which are just riotous enough that readers will recognize they are not to be emulated (one hopes).
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-05-17
That social butterfly, er, teddy, is causing trouble again, this time at school.

The mischief-maker in question, a light-brown bear, has convinced his various buddies to sneak to school in their kids’ backpacks. Their reign of terror starts in the cafeteria, where they sculpt a sloppy-joe bear, play Frisbee with pizzas, and use spaghetti as wigs and fake mustaches. They tag the wall with condiments. They tie up the gym teacher with jump-ropes and sneak bubble fluid into the band instruments. Before making their pipe-cleaner escape from the art room, they invade the teachers’ lounge (readers will be in stitches at the wonders hiding in that sanctum sanctorum). But in the end, the suspects are lined up in chairs in the office of the principal, a brown-skinned woman who looks like she means business…until she remembers her own beloved childhood bear. Children will surely chuckle at the stuffed friends’ antics, which are just riotous enough that readers will recognize they are not to be emulated (one hopes). The trip to the principal’s office (including the struggles of the vice principal, a white man, to control his laughter) may be accurate for first-timers, but those who make frequent visits are not likely to see the same treatment.

This teddy gang run amok proves that the principal is human, but their adventures are becoming one-note. (Picture book. 4-8)

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