Return to Planet Tad (Planet Tad Series #2)

by Tim Carvell

Overview

Tad is back and he's blogger than ever, in a laugh-out-loud sequel to the book Jon Stewart called "hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school."

Tad may have survived seventh grade, but his troubles are just getting started. From his first sort-of date (a disaster) to his first semiformal dance (a bigger disaster), all Tad wants to do is make it out of this year alive. But that's not the only reason he keeps a blog. Tad also has a lot of important thoughts he needs to get off his chest, like: I don't get the phrase "you are what you eat." It seems to me like the only people that's true for are cannibals.

This highly illustrated and hilarious book is by the Emmy® Award-winning head writer of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and is based on a column in MAD Magazine. Through a series of daily entries, readers are treated to a year in Tad's blog that will leave them in stitches.

MAD Magazine and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © E.C. Publications. (s15)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062266262
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/16/2024
Series:	Planet Tad Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Editorial Reviews

Praise for PLANET TAD: “This book will make you laugh. If you’re not into that sort of thing, consider yourself warned.

Stephen Colbert

Praise for PLANET TAD: “Hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school.

Jon Stewart

Praise for PLANET TAD: “Tad is the rapid-fire, pop-culture-referencing, actually-funny stand-up-comic-in-waiting that I wanted to be in middle school!

Tom Angleberger

Laugh-out-loud mishaps will resonate with readers in early adolescence, who no doubt have encountered similarly sticky situations. Cartoon sketches and Tad’s one-off observations about life add even more humor, making for a quick, episodic story ideal for reluctant readers, middle schoolers, and the Wimpy Kid crowd.

ALA Booklist

Praise for PLANET TAD: “Hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school.” %COMM_CONTRIB%Jon Stewart

2014-06-04
More tidbits from Planet Tad, compiled from a fictional blog originally published in Mad Magazine (Planet Tad, 2012).Tad’s faux blog comes complete with emoticons and line drawings and records the events of January through December as he finishes eighth grade and begins ninth. The nearly daily entries are sometimes silly and sometimes sarcastic. He tries to learn ice skating in January, gets a cellphone (a lame one) for his birthday in March and is blackmailed into starring in the school’s production of Our Town by his teacher in April. Many entries are just vaguely humorous observations: Toothpaste should be called “mouthscrub” so it doesn’t sound like glue for teeth. No event or topic lasts for more than a few entries. His mean grandmother visits in June, the family attends her wedding in August, and Tad starts high school in September. Part of the team that won six Emmys for The Daily Show, Carvell turns out a second Tad title that, like its predecessor, lacks a central story. It reads, not surprisingly, like something written by a sketch-comedy writer trying for the Wimpy Kid audience. Final art not seen, but Holgate’s preliminary illustrations are a highlight.A smile or two for those with severely short attention spans, not much more. (Fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews