Where's My Homework?

by Michael Garland, Michael Garland (Illustrator)

Overview

A hilarious school story that explores all the possible places your homework might be hiding!When a young boy's homework goes missing, who is to blame? Of course the aliens beamed it up, or perhaps the pirates plundered the pages, or maybe the wicked witch turned his homework into a frog! Or did a dog actually eat it? With a vivid imagination and hilarious art style, Michael Garland hits all the right notes in this wonderful back-to-school story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545778800
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/24/2014
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Michael Garland has 35 books in print. Four of Garland's books are New York Times Bestsellers, and Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook won State Reading Awards in Delaware, California and Texas. He lives in Patterson, NY, and you can visit him at garlandpicturebooks.com.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2014
Gr 1–2—A distraught child is certain he has done his homework, but he is unable to find it in the morning. As his search becomes increasingly frantic, his imagination kicks in, and he envisions everything from pirates plundering his homework and making it walk the plank, to having it join the circus or being abducted by Martians. After hearing a slobbering sound, he realizes that, in this case, the cliché is true. His dog really did eat his homework, and he will have to face a skeptical teacher. Fortunately, the pup manages to save the day, and all ends well. Not a lot of new ground is broken here, but Garland's signature illustrations, with their bold, saturated colors, varied perspectives, and quirky details, will have fans of his previous work clamoring for this one.—Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ

School Library Journal

2014-05-19
It turns out the dog really did eat the homework.Garland's title page nicely sets the scene and establishes the young narrator's veracity: He is dutifully sitting at his desk, lamp blazing, doing his homework. But the next morning, the papers are nowhere to be found. In an excellent portrayal of searches by real-life kids, who imagine that everyone would want and naturally steal what they are looking for, spread upon spread of full-bleed illustrations in rich colors show readers what the boy imagines happened to his homework: "Maybe Martians from outer space invaded my room and abducted my homework!" Plundered by pirates, taken by a slithery boa constrictor and run away to join the circus are just a few of the other possibilities. But just as his mother is calling that it's getting late, he hears some suspicious slobbering from the living room. (The question of where the homework was between the boy's desperate search for it, dog at his heels, and his hearing these noises is never addressed.) Of course, the boy simply must drag the dog to school to confront his teacher, and a lucky deus ex machina belies her suspicions. Garland's trademark style combines fuzzily digital illustrations (especially of hair and fur) with collaged patterns and textures.If only all students were as diligent and truthful as this one (and every homework search turned out as happily). (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews