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    I Didn't Do My Homework Because...
    I Didn't Do My Homework Because...
    I Didn't Do My Homework Because...
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    I Didn't Do My Homework Because...

    By Davide Cali and Benjamin Chaud

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    How many excuses are there for not doing homework? Let us count the ways: Giant lizards invaded the neighborhood. Elves hid all the pencils. And then there was that problem with carnivorous plants.... The excuses go on and on, each more absurd than the next and escalating to hilarious heights. Featuring detail-rich illustrations by Benjamin Chaud, this book is guaranteed to amuse kids and their parents, not to mention anyone who has experienced a slacker student moment—and isn't that everyone?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateMar 4, 2014
    ISBN9781452135717
    I Didn't Do My Homework Because...
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    Davide Cali

    Davide Cali is a Swiss-born Italian author, working primarily in children's literature and graphic novels. His work has been published in twenty-five countries including Germany, France, Portgual, and been translated into over thirty languages. He also writes under the pseudonyms Taro Miyazawa and Daikon. He lives in Italy.

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    • 5/5
      The penguin one was soo good that read it millions of times
    • 4/5
      Four stars because the kid in the book sinned. -
    • 1/5
      Blah blah blah this book is really really stupid ugh…
    • 5/5
      Imaginative in excuses AND art. Great book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A boy offers increasingly imaginative and absurd excuses for not doing his homework.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I had my son, a senior in high school, read this for me first. He said, in effect, 'cute but only meh, probably better for younger kids.'

      So then I read it, and, at first, was thinking that it would be a good writing prompt: teacher reads this, then kids come up with their own ideas. But then the excuses kept coming, and I was thinking it'd be better to reverse the order, because Chaud really does use up so many of the ideas the kids would like suggest.

      Then I decided that the classroom should simply own a copy - that the book should be on the resource shelf for SSR, sans comment from teacher. Let the kids read it on their own time. See if any of them start doodling in their notebook comics inspired by this.

      Just a little too weird and superficial for me to rate as anything but it was ok>""

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