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    Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

    By Kevin O'Malley, Carol Heyer and Scott Goto

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    When their teacher gives a joint storytelling assignment, a boy and a girl have different ideas of how their fairy tale should evolve. Can they agree on who will live happily ever after? With a cool motorcycle dude and a beautiful princess the possibilities are endless in this read-to-me eBook!

    Once upon a time there was ... a princess who loved all her beautiful ponies, a cool muscle dude who rode an awesome motorcycle. But a giant came and started stealing them! The dude came to fight the ugly, smelly giant with his mighty sword. She turned gold into thread while she cried for Buttercup, her favorite pony. And he took the princess's gold thread for payment The end!
    Wait a minute! That's not how it ends!
    Oh no?
    Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl who had to tell a fairy tale to the class, but they couldn't agree on the story. Will everyone live happily ever after?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9780802736321
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    Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
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    Kevin O'Malley

    KEVIN O'MALLEY is the co-author and illustrator of the popular Miss Malarkey series, as well as the New York Times bestseller Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share and many other books for children. He lives in Maryland. www.booksbyomalley.com

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    • 5/5
      This is a great read, especially if you have two upper grade students read the book as the characters and while you show the pictures holding a second book. Children will love the interaction between the two characters and how each see the story in their mind a different way. A fun book that shows when working together there are always two opinions.
    • 4/5
      modern fairy tale
    • 5/5
      This wonderfully illustrated picture book presents the telling of a fairy tale story told by the point of view of both a boy and girl. Each story is biased by their own expectations and interpretation. The overall main idea of this story is that one's imagination is truly a powerful one. I would definitely recommend this picture book to all readers for it is extremely entertaining!
    • 5/5
      I don't think I have laughed as hard as I had reading this book. Meeting Kevin O'Malley, I should have expected this, but it really got me laughing. This book challenges gender roles by showing that both girls and boys can enjoy any kind of story by displaying one written in a tag-team by a boy and a girl. I like the fact that the children interject in the book to show their opinions. It's something that isn't utilized enough in children's literature. The typeface also alternates by which child is telling the story. This can show the different voices and their ideas that go into the book. I also enjoy the fact that there are three illustrators. O'Malley's illustration of the children obviously juts out from the detailed work of Heyer and Goto. Heyer's illustrations for the girl's story are elegant and soft, whereas Goto's illustrations for the boy's story are bold and rash and energetic. This parodies the stereotypes of the genders, which falls apart by the end where only O'Malley illustrates.
    • 2/5
      A "He Said - She Said" tale for young readers, in which a boy and girl must tell a fairytale together for a class project, Kevin O'Malley's Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude would undoubtedly make an engaging story-hour selection. The humorous back and forth between the two narrators, who are each appalled by the other's narrative, will produce some giggles, and the bright colors will hold the attention.Unfortunately, although I can see that this title will appeal to the age-group for which it is intended, I didn't really enjoy it myself. While the gender stereotypes - the girl is romantic, and obsessed with princesses; the boy is interested in muscle "dudes," and the gory details of battle - may ring true, they nevertheless grated. The illustrations, which switch back and forth between the lush, fairy-tale style of Carol Heyer, and the comic-book action style of Scott Goto, felt rather flat to me. All in all, this is one of those books that does what it sets out to do - it just doesn't do it for me.
    • 1/5
      I did not like this book at all for two main reasons. First, this was the absolute most sexist and stereotypical book that I have ever read. In elementary schools today, one should feel like they can express themselves any way they want to, but with this book gender roles were forced. Also, I did not like the language of the book, I understood that the author was trying to grasp students attention and connect with them, but using "dude" all the time is really ridiculous. The message of this book is teamwork, and collaboration goes a long way.
    • 4/5
      I really liked this book because it was so different. I thought it was so interesting how there was two very different authors with two very different styles. It was so clever to relate the two characters in the book to the two authors. It was also so interesting the way there was a story being told within a story. It was funny how the girl wanted to tell a story about a rincess and romance, however all the boy was interested in was telling a story about dragons, fire and fighting. It was so comical because of how realistic and accurate the story was between the boy and girl because it is so typical of what a girl and boy at the age are like in real life. The moral of this story was friendship and how two people who like different things can get along. In the end of the story the two learned to share and mix the ideas of both of their stories. The illustrations were so great because they were done by two different people who had completely different drawing techniques. This is a fun story for young children.
    • 5/5
      In my opinion this is a great book to read to children when they no longer are interested in the same things. I think this book is great for when kids separate into girls only being friends with other girls and for when guys are only friends with guys. This book had one of the most beautiful illustrations that I had ever seen which was done by two different people for when the girl told her version of the story and when the boy told his version of the story. I loved the way Kevin O'Malley illustrated the boys version of the story because the colors were so deep and the details were very intricate. I think this story is a great Fairy tail for both boys and girls and it keeps the readers attention the whole story. I would read this to my students just to see how they react to it.
    • 2/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book. This story has two main characters, a boy who likes motorcycles and fighting and a girl who like princesses and love. These characters were arguing throughout the entire book. The boy and girl were doing a project where they had to make up a story together and they could not agree on the story'a plot. The story went from being about a princess to being about a fight and then about love, and so on. The characters seemed like flat and stereotypical characters- the classic "girl liked princesses and ponies" and "boy liked black and motorcycles". I would have liked to see some variance from the typical gender stereotypes. The language in the story was very informal and casual, which would be easy for a younger child to read. But even the font style was different for the boy and the girl. The girl's font was very bubbly and the boy's font was very bold and dark. I enjoy the variation in font throughout the book, but this also seemed very stereotypical. Finally, the plot was not very enjoyable. The boy and girl continued to argue throughout the entire book. I would have preferred if they found a way to overcome their challenges and agree on an ending to their story. Instead, they seemed to agreed to disagree by deciding the princess can have a baby but it must be a boy. The big message of this book seemed to be that boys and girls will disagree, but you have to find a way to work together. I would not recommend this book to a student because the big idea of this book is not something I believe is important for students to know and possibly live by.
    • 3/5
      In my opinion, I have mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because it shows how boys and girls can work together. This story is about classmates, a boy and a girl, sharing a story about princesses and motorcycle dudes. I like how the story has such different views and illustrations. The point of view was being read from the girl and boys perspective. The girl really enjoyed princesses and ponies. She had illustrations that were dainty and calming. On the other hand, the boy classmate wanted his story to be about a macho motorcyclist. The illustrations that portrayed his point of view was more harsh. But I did not like this book because the writing can be a challenging for some students to keep up with. Switching from story to story can be confusing. I think the illustrations help keep the stories straight in student's imaginations while reading. In the end, the boy and the girl collaborate their ideas together and the story finishes with the motorcycle "dude" saving the princess. The main message to get from this book is, even though a student's opinion might be different with one of their peers, they can still come to a compromise and make an interesting story about it!
    • 3/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because of it's captivating illustrations, but I did not like this book because of it's gender stereotypes. The book is illustrated by two seperate artists which I found to be very interesting and enhanced the story by viewing the two artists contrasting each other on the same page. I thought this was a very unique idea and facilitated understanding who was talking because the girl illustrator drew the background whenever the girl character was talking and the boy illustrator drew the background whenever the boy character was talking. Although in the end the princess defeats gender stereotypes by being the hero and saving the pony rather than waiting on a man to do it, the majority of the book consisted of a lot of cliche gender roles that I did not agree with. Although this may be how children this age act toward one another, I think it is naive to claim that all girls are submissive and want to be the princess waiting on the prince while all boys are strong and powerful and brave. While reading the story myself I believe I would be more like the male character and felt almost like people would not think that was acceptable because I am not a boy. The overall message to the story, however, is that it is more efficient to work as a team and compromise with one another whenever possible. I believe this is an important message for students, but I also believe it could have been proclaimed in a different way.
    • 4/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked this book because it is an excellent way to show the differences between boys and girls and the difficulties that come with partnership on classroom projects. However, I did not like the stereotypes that this book portrays in the gender roles of boys and girls. The language is very descriptive and shifts perspectives from the girl telling the story to the boy telling the story and in the end their stories merge because they start to come to agreement. I found this to be a creative way to write a book, however, for younger readers it may cause some confusion. There were two different illustrators for this book which was very engaging and appealing to the eye. The characters are well developed and relatable to most girls and boys however, I still did not completely agree with the gender stereotypes that the book portrayed. The book pushes readers to evaluate differences in other people. The big message of the story is that although people are different and may have different opinions, you can still push through your differences to come to some type of agreement just like the characters did in this book.
    • 4/5
      The project is to tell the class about your pair's favorite fairy tale, but one girl and boy can't agree which they like best so they write their own. Three illustrators and one mishmashed tale later, everyone's having fun. Kevin O'Malley authored the story and provides the illustrations of our project pair. Carol Heyer provides the illustrations for the girl's portion of the fairy tale and Scott Goto provides the illustrations for the boy's portion of the fairy tale. While this might be tough for a read-aloud with the interjections from the boy and girl, it's great fun for a read-alone. Even I found the beginning (the girl's fairy tale) a bit twee and I like princesses and unicorns and while the boy swings a bit too far in the gross-out direction for my taste, I love the final melding of the tales. My favorite two spreads are when "Princess Tenderheart goes to the gym and pumps iron. She becomes Princess Warrior. She tells the dude to make his own thread." The illustrations that go with this are just priceless with the style staying true to the original fairy tale while the images show a Princess determined not to be left behind. What this reminds me of most were the serial stories we'd have to write in school. One person would start the story and another would continue it and another would finish it - this would be a great lead in to the same type of exercies if the interjections could be handled. It would also make pretty fun Readers' Theater.
    • 4/5
      This was a big hit with my ten and seven year old nephews and my four and seven year old nieces. I took it up to the lake house when they all were there, and they all loved it. The boys read and re-read it on their own, and the girls asked every adult willing to read them a story to read this book to them. I'll be grabbing the next book for next year's family vacation!
    • 3/5
      Students can create their own alternative ending to the story after reading the first 10-12 pages of the story. Use story elements and link to the information from the beginning of the story. Must think about the voice of the character telling the story--whether they pick the girl or the boy.Have students write a cooperative story, like the one in this book--sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph?Discuss fairy tale elements with students. Read traditional fairy tales, and compare with current fractured fairy tales. Write their own.Discuss gender stereotypes.
    • 5/5
      I love, love, love this book. So have my daughter's third and fourth grade classmates, especially the boys. The illustrations are great and the two characters' versions of the same fairy tale are hilarious. This is really fun to read aloud with a partner (or different voices, if you're good at that).
    • 4/5
      Super fun to read to the kiddos (with my coworker), but I'm not sure they all "got it." Maybe for a slightly older crowd?
    • 4/5
      This is an adorable tale within a tale of two competing narrators, a boy and a girl, who use their imagination to take turns storytelling as they relay the adventures of a princess whose precious ponies have been stolen by a giant who wants to make them into a stew. The male narrator clashes with the female character's vision for the story as he introduces the hero: Cool Motorcycle Dude who at first seems out of place in the story and conflicts with the whole vibe. The book is full of humor relating to gender differences in children as the two collaborate and compromise their two perspectives until they end up with a coherent story they are both happy with in the end. The story is cleverly written with three different illustrators to convey the story within the story and the two different minds coming together.
    • 3/5
      I liked reading the book, Once Upon A Cool Motorcycle Dude. First, I enjoyed this book because it very relatable in that a boy and girl are arguing over how the story should be told. This is very realistic and relatable for children of this age level. I like how this story is told from both a boy and a girl’s perspective which does not allow it to fall under either a boy or girl book category exclusively. Also, I enjoyed that there is contrast in the illustrations between the narrators arguing and what is actively happening in their story. This clearly demonstrates the contrast between the two narrators’ perspectives and the actual storyline. The main idea of this story is that boys and girls have different interests and ideas of how story should be told but can find some common ground.
    • 2/5
      I have mixed feelings about Kevin O’malee’s story “Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude.” The book outlines a story from the point of view of a young boy and a young girl as they collaborate to tell the reader what is happening. Although I believe that the story line is interesting in theory, the book itself is not impressive. The boy is a very stereotypical boy, adding in details about motorcycles, dragons and battles; the girl is a very stereotypical girl, including fairy tale elements with princesses and romance. I did not enjoy this because I do not think that it is true to life for many children. Although some children many relate, I believe that books should display the complexity of human nature, not follow the very specific gender stereotypes. I also thought the book was a little too complex for young readers, but a little too simple for older readers. For example, the illustrations and text in the book differ between the children and the story’s characters, and the two children telling the story add in speech bubbles arguing about the story line as well. Furthermore, the overall message of the book was not clearly conveyed as the story simply ended without any final collaboration.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. The first reason I loved this book is for its changing point of view. Throughout the book, the point of view switches between an adolescent girl and an adolescent boy, each with their own idea about what the story they are telling should be about. For example, the girl began the story with a princess who had her precious ponies taken away from a troll and no knight was able to defeat the troll to get the ponies back. The boy disliked where the story was going and introduced a cool biker dude into the story who came in to save the day. Although one would think these two sides would conflict, they actually blend well together and present both girl and boy readers something to like and be interested about with the book. Another reason I adored this book is its repetitive episodic plot. Due to the opposing views of the boy and girl in the story, each time the point of view changed, another set of rising actions began and resolved themselves as the next problem presented itself by the opposing point of view. The numerous conflicts that resulted from this plot style made reading the book more exciting and fast paced, which is perfect for readers who lose interest quickly. The big idea of this book was hard to find due to the emphasis on the story the two main characters were building; however that conflict enabled me to see that the big idea was two ideas or points of views can come together to make one awesome story that reaches out to members of both points of views, not just one or the other. 
    • 5/5
      “Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude” is a fantastic book, with an even better main message: the message is that with compromise come great things. This is emphasized through the charters in the book. For throughout the beginning of the book they are both telling the same story but from very different perspectives, for instance the girl tells it like a princess fairy tale while the boy tells it like a macho story. Somehow by the end of the book both of these characters are telling the same story with the same ending. For instance they collaborate and allow the princess to go slay the dragon along side the macho man. This shows the reader that even when you work with someone who may not see things the same way as you, you can still come out with something fantastic. To accompany these two prospective the author uses two different illustrators. Which I felt was really cool because when the boy would tell the story the scenery and style of drawing would change and the same went for the girl’s perspective. This really allowed me as the reader to keep track of which voice I was reading the story in and it keept me actively involved and guessing who would say what next.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book because it was different from anything I’ve read before. I enjoyed the characters and narrators of the book. I like how the boy and girl telling the story had their own talking bubbles so it was like they were telling us the story personally. It made the story more entertaining to follow by reading their talking bubbles. I also enjoyed how the girls side of the story was about a Princess and the boys was about a dude on a motorcycle, it reminded me of how a lot of kids would of told a story today. I also really enjoyed the illustrations in the book. As I mentioned before about the girl and boy telling the story, I liked how the book showed them talking and arguing back and forth with each other in addition to the pictures of the story t hey were telling. It was also cute to see the princess and the girl side of the story combine with the motorcycle and boy side of the story. It was different from any book I’ve ever read before, so I enjoyed it. I think the message of this book was that not all stereotypical princess, or cool dude stories have to end the way they normally do. Not all princesses will be saved by a prince, sometimes there is a spunky fun twist, just as this book showed, that makes the story different and more entertaining for kids to read.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book because the illustrations, language and the plot. The illustrations were all bright colored and some were very descriptive. For example, the man on the motorcycle had manly features that stuck out to you like a beard. The giant in the story was big and scary, which was enhanced by the illustration of him. This made the story more appealing to the eyes. I liked how the boy and the girl were on each page and had word bubbles coming from them. This made the story seem more conversational, like it was intended to be. The girl’s font was girly font with swirls and the boy’s font was bold and intense. This made it easier to follow who was speaking and easier to understand each perspective. The language helped to develop each perspective as well. The girl called the boy “gross” and the boy was saying, “dude” a lot. This helped you relate to the characters, depending on your gender, because we have all said these at some point in our lives or have seen someone else say these things. The plot was clear and organized even though you had two stories going on at the same time. You would think having the characters interrupt each other would get confusing, but the story was organized well enough to prevent that. Each character had his or her own section of the page and it still corresponded with what the other person was saying. For example, when the girl named the pony Buttercup, the boy intruded saying he didn’t like the name because it was girly. The book was very gender stereotypical, which was the only reason I did not like the story. However, the overall message was that boys and girls can see things differently, but if they mesh their ideas together they can have a good outcome. They both finished their story successfully, even though they had completely different ideas. It really showed the boy’s perspective and girl’s perspective, which is another way to show that everyone has a different perspective or preference on how things should go.
    • 5/5
      This book was about the difference in boys and girls in how they see the perfect fairytale. I liked the book because it incorporated snippets of themes from other fairytales like the Princess spinning gold thread. I also thought it was entertaining. The girls’ perspective for the story was with famine characters like Buttercup and Jasmine. The boy was very vocal about not liking the girls’ ideas about character development, he kept saying yuck. All his characters were being all manly (the butch man he called motorcycle dude). I liked how the girl was challenged by the boys’ version and revised her princess to be more self reliant and less dependent on others to solve her problem. At the end the Princess participated in saving all the ponies from the Giant. This book was also about compromise as the boy and girl learned to work together to create a story they were both satisfied with and reflected them both.
    • 4/5
      It is very rare that children books touch me and inspire me, however Guji Guji was one of them. This book also portrayed the message that the only thing that matters is inside and not the outside. Two things that I enjoyed about this book were the plot and the characters. The storyline was suspenseful at times and kept me engaged in the plot. For example, I was waiting to see how the crocodiles would react to Guji Guji with his different family. The author did a great job creating the protagonist and antagonist characters. In this book the crocodiles were the antagonists and were looked down upon. The duck family and Guji Guji were the protagonists because I was on their “side” during the book. In addition, their family was showing no judgment at all. As a result, this has been one of my favorite stories so far.
    • 4/5
      I feel that the overall message of this book is the idea of gender stereotyping. I really liked this book because I felt that it described its overall message through different aspects. First, I felt that the illustrations supported the overall message because whenever the girl was telling the story, the colors that were used were pinks and purples and light blues. However, when it was the boy’s turn to tell the story, the page colors changed to dark colors like green, brown and black. Additionally I felt that the characters were very relateable to young children since they focused on the “typical” girl and boy situation. For example, everything the girl created for the story was looked at as “girly,” like the princesses and princes. Whereas everything the boy contributed seemed “manly,” such as the motorcycles and “dudes.” Finally, I felt that the language really contributed to the overall message of the book because the author incorporated dialogue that the typical boy or girl would use. An example of that was when the girl replied to something with, “as if,” and when the boy called every person in the story a “dude.”
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed Kevin O’Malley’s book, Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. One thing I really liked about it was how the author showed he was telling the story from two different points of view with his writing. The girl in the story uses more delicate language like “princess,” “pretty,” and “Buttercup,” while the boy in the story uses more violent language such as, “big and mean,” “rotten, moldy, stinky,” and more. I also like how he changes the fonts when it is being told from a different point of view. When the girl is speaking he uses a very pretty script font and when the boy is speaking he uses a more bold and rugged font. I also like how the author uses the illustrations to show the differences between the interests of the girl versus the boy. The pages of the go back and forth between scenes covered with pink and purple to scenes draped with flames. As the book goes on the interests of the boy and the girl begin to intertwine and the author shows that through his illustrations. I believe the central message of this story is to overcome gender biases that society thinks are normal.
    • 5/5
      In the book entitled Once upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin Omally it was a cool story of when a little boy and girl have to pick their favorite story and they can’t come to a compromise, so they create their own story. The two kids combine a classic fairy tale with a little boys Motorcycle dude hero into one story. The two children take turns going through the story and the reader can see the differences between the little boy and girl. I really liked this book for many different reasons. The first reason is I thought the story was fun and was an interesting twist on the differences between young boys and girls. Also I enjoyed the illustrations in the story because they were comic like, fun and they fit the story well. Another thing I liked about the book was that it would be a good book for students in the upper elementary grades. That is what I liked about this story.