Jon
Scieszka grew up with five brothers. He taught elementary
school for 10 years, raised a daughter and son, and
has written books for kids for the last 15 years.
All of these things inspired him to start this GUYS
READ program to help boys read.
He has written:
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Math Curse Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 October, 1995
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School & Library Binding Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants -- can you make 1 good outfit? Don't worry -- it's just the Math Curse striking! An amusing b...Read More >> $11.89
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 March, 1996
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Paperback "There has obviously been some kind of mistake," writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he's doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the "real" story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens... from the wolf's perspective. This ...Read More >> $6.99
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 May, 2002
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Hardcover The Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Manand Other Fairly Stupid Tales has not lost one ounce of its wisecracking, cheeky humor in the past decade. In fact, the only thing about this "Deluxe Limited Special Never Before Never Again Extra Stuff 10 Year Anniversary Edition" that's differe...Read More >> $11.89
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Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Molly Leach
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15 September, 1998
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Hardcover Every once in a while a book crosses our desks that makes us sit quietly delighted--except for a few squeaks of unmitigated joy--and this oversized, energized, stylized, highly prized book of fables is one of them. Jon Scieszka has a simple philosophy of the fable: "If you can't say something nice a...Read More >> $12.59
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Science Verse Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Penguin USA Viking Childrens Books
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01 September, 2004
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School & Library Binding Read More >> $11.89
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Summer Reading Is Killing Me! (Time Warp Trio) Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 June, 2000
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Paperback Sam, Fred, and Joe--the Time Warp Trio--find themselves face-to-beak with a giant, 266-pound chicken ... who, unfortunately, looks hungry. As the chicken begins to chase them, the boys realize with horror that they are smack-dab in the middle of Daniel Pinkwater's The Hoboken Chicken Emergency Read More >> $4.99
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Baloney (Henry P.) Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 May, 2001
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Hardcover Henry P. Baloney needs to come up with a very good, very believable excuse for being late to szkola yet again--or he's in big trouble with his teacher Miss Bugscuffle. But never fear! Henry has a doozy of a story. You see, it all started when he misplaced his trusty yellow no. zz zimul...Read More >> $11.19
Tut, Tut (Time Warp Trio) Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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01 April, 2004
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Paperback A delightful children's story about Ancient Egypt and time travel. In the tradition of all books by Scieszka and Smith, although it is perfect for ages 6-10, adults will get a smile too from the offbeat humor and weird predicaments in which the Time Warp Trio find themselves.Read More >> $4.99
Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? (Time Warp Trio, 11) Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley
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01 April, 2004
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Paperback Joe, Fred, and Sam, the Time Warp Trio, should know better by now than to mess around with The Book--a magical book given to Joe by his uncle. But this time they really think they have things under control... until Sam's latest invention, the Graphi-Sonic, accidentally interfaces with T...Read More >> $4.99
Sam Samurai (Time Warp Trio, (Paper)) Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley
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01 October, 2002
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Paperback Between hightailing it down the Tokaido Road, eluding a hot-tempered samurai named Owattabutt, and trying to fix their malfunctioning Auto-Translator, the Time Warp Trio may never get out of 17th-century Japan alive. Especially with all those razor-sharp katanas poised and waiting to lop ...Read More >> $4.99
It's All Greek to Me (Time Warp Trio, 8) Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
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05 March, 2001
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Paperback Great Zeus! Ace author-illustrator team Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (of Stinky Cheese Man fame) get together again for the eighth title in their popular Time Warp Trio series. Fred, Sam, and narrator Joe are innocently performing a school play about Mount Olympus when "The Book" (a magic tome...Read More >> $4.99
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See You Later, Gladiator (Time Warp Trio, 9) Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley
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01 March, 2002
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Paperback "Gratias tibi ago quia me gladio tuo non fodisti." That's "thank you for not poking me with your sword," a useful phrase for the hapless time-traveling trio, Sam, Fred, and Joe, when they find themselves flunking out of gladiator school in ancient Rome.
