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Space Jam: A Novelization
Getting his pals Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote into a terrible fix, Bugs Bunny begs super athlete Michael Jordan to help them win a critical game against a crew of space creatures. Original. Movie tie-in.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1996
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Gail Herman
75 books1 followerCreative storyteller and arts consultant Dr. Gail N. Herman has performed and taught storytelling extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Jamaica, Germany, Ghana, India, and the Virgin Islands. Besides performing for students in schools and libraries, Dr. Herman works with teachers and helping professionals to infuse storytelling and the kinesthetic, musical, and spatial aspects of learning into reading and other curriculum areas of our schools. She teaches for Lesley University, MA, Garrett College, MD, and The University of Connecticut (CONFRATUTE) in CT. Gail has directed the Tall Tale Liar’s Festival in MD for 16 years.
Dr. Herman has conducted hundreds of in-service storytelling workshops. She also teaches art appreciation through stories, sound, and gesture as a guest in classes at George Mason University and Maryland Institute, College of Art and at the University of Connecticut. She presents many storytelling workshops and keynotes to state educational and other organizations such as LANES, NSN, Confratute, NAEYC, NAGC, and AEGUS.
She was an invited keynoter at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and the New Ways Of Learning: Spotlight on the Multiple Intelligences Conference sponsored by Zephyr Press in Tucson, AZ. She performed at the Albert Schweitzer Symposium at the United Nations in NYC, at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, the WV Storytelling Festival, the Harvest Moon Festival in WV, and the Northeast Storytelling Festival in Historic Gettysburg.
Dr. Herman worked as a consultant with Dr. Patricia Hollingsworth on four education grants to train teachers to work with economically disadvantaged students with high potential at the University school in Tulsa. Her job was to infuse the kinesthetic arts and storytelling into the curriculum. Dr. Herman also worked as an enrichment consultant and storyteller in Cherry Creek Schools and Littleton Schools near Denver, Colorado. She works with Drs. Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis at the University of Connecticut for the institute/conference called CONFRATUTE, where she teaches storytelling and movement applications to the classroom as well as Primary Grade Enrichment (with Dr. Susan Baum).
Dr. Herman has received many grants including a Laurel Arts Grant, Bluemont Concert Series, local Arts Council Grants, MD and WV Humanities Council grants, and MD State Arts Council Residency and Artist in Education (AIE) grants. She continues her work on Coal Talk Oral Histories. Most recently she received a grant from MBEC to collect stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Dr. Herman taught at WVU as Visiting Assistant Professor, was a primary grade teacher, and a gifted and early childhood teacher for over thirteen years. She taught in the New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maryland public schools. She was a regular classroom teacher, a Helping Teacher, and an Enrichment Teacher. She has taught learning disabled, underachieving, as well as gifted students. Presently, she teaches at three colleges and universities in her specialized fields of education, storytelling, creative arts in learning, gifted education, and early childhood curriculum.
Dr. Herman has conducted hundreds of in-service storytelling workshops. She also teaches art appreciation through stories, sound, and gesture as a guest in classes at George Mason University and Maryland Institute, College of Art and at the University of Connecticut. She presents many storytelling workshops and keynotes to state educational and other organizations such as LANES, NSN, Confratute, NAEYC, NAGC, and AEGUS.
She was an invited keynoter at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and the New Ways Of Learning: Spotlight on the Multiple Intelligences Conference sponsored by Zephyr Press in Tucson, AZ. She performed at the Albert Schweitzer Symposium at the United Nations in NYC, at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, the WV Storytelling Festival, the Harvest Moon Festival in WV, and the Northeast Storytelling Festival in Historic Gettysburg.
Dr. Herman worked as a consultant with Dr. Patricia Hollingsworth on four education grants to train teachers to work with economically disadvantaged students with high potential at the University school in Tulsa. Her job was to infuse the kinesthetic arts and storytelling into the curriculum. Dr. Herman also worked as an enrichment consultant and storyteller in Cherry Creek Schools and Littleton Schools near Denver, Colorado. She works with Drs. Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis at the University of Connecticut for the institute/conference called CONFRATUTE, where she teaches storytelling and movement applications to the classroom as well as Primary Grade Enrichment (with Dr. Susan Baum).
Dr. Herman has received many grants including a Laurel Arts Grant, Bluemont Concert Series, local Arts Council Grants, MD and WV Humanities Council grants, and MD State Arts Council Residency and Artist in Education (AIE) grants. She continues her work on Coal Talk Oral Histories. Most recently she received a grant from MBEC to collect stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Dr. Herman taught at WVU as Visiting Assistant Professor, was a primary grade teacher, and a gifted and early childhood teacher for over thirteen years. She taught in the New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maryland public schools. She was a regular classroom teacher, a Helping Teacher, and an Enrichment Teacher. She has taught learning disabled, underachieving, as well as gifted students. Presently, she teaches at three colleges and universities in her specialized fields of education, storytelling, creative arts in learning, gifted education, and early childhood curriculum.
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November 7, 2017
Space jam features Micheal Jordan. He played for the Chicago bulls and now is deciding if he wants to play golf. In a amalgamate universe, Looney Tunes. One day Micheal Jordan was out with his friends playing golf and at one hole, Micheal swings and the ball goes in and so does Micheal. No one knew where he went. When he went down, the Looney tunes needed his help to win against the aliens in a game of basketball. It takes sometime but soon later he says yes. The Bugs bunny and dafy duck went back to the real world and into Micheal´s house to get his lucky basketball and his clothes. Little did they know that ball has special powers. The aliens took advantage of that. They also went into the real world and they took the powers of the famous basketball players. Later on in the story the loney tune lose alot of their players but still made it out to win, with out cheat. I think the theme of the story was that Cheater never win and thats what happened with the aliens
March 10, 2021
This book I read after I watched the movie space jam when micheal jordan was in the movie. I thought the story was very different from the movie and personally, I believed the book story was better than the story of the movie. The story is about one legendary player who quit playing that sport to play a sport that was his dads favorite sports when his dad passed away. but some creature came to earth and stole the power from super star of the NBA and tried to take over the earth micheal jordan and the cartoon caracter stood up to stop them. and I belive this was very intresting, adding one of the legendary sports player to the famous cartoon is awsome idea
February 28, 2019
I found this on the Open Library and just couldn't help myself. This book is really outdated unless you're a 90s sports fan and know all the player names and stuff, or you saw the movie when it came out. I normally don't go for sports-related movies or books, but this is Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan! Very simplified writing, but sure brings back good memories. It wouldn't hurt for it to have more details. It did skimp over a lot of the movie, like the stuff with Michael's family. What can I expect from a novelization like this? But it was fun reading it.
November 6, 2024
i read it once every year 🥲
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October 12, 2017, owner of a amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him, whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size, Bugs Bunny is forced to trick them into agreeing to a competition to determine their freedom. Taking advantage of their puny and stubby legged foes, the gang selects basketball for the surest chance of winning. However, the Nerdlucks turn the tables and steal the talents of leading professional basketball stars to become massive basketball bruisers known as the Monstars. In desperation, Bugs Bunny calls on the aid of Micheal Jordan, the Babe Ruth of Basketball, to help them have a chance at winning their freedom.
September 1, 2012
If you loved Space Jam (the movie) you will love Space Jam (the novelization). Included are eight pages of color photos from the film, outlining the overall plot structure if you do not have time to read 77 pages in size 16 font. Sometimes I need my Space Jam and I need it fast! This novelization delivers, I feel like I'm experiencing all the wonders of Space Jam without having to suspend disbelief by accepting Michael Jordan as an actor. Would have been five stars if paired with the soundtrack.
August 7, 2011
812th - 2011
August 18, 2022
Wonderful fun
August 13, 2022
A novelization of the classic 90's movie starring Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes, it's written in a very light and understandable prose, as expected from a kids book.
However the novel has it's issues with continuity, losing track of certain moments while jumping from one scene to another, reintroducing characters that had already been presented, and changing certain ideas that were being implemented. An example of this is that the Nerdlocks in the novelization steal the talent of the NBA stars in liquid form, drinking it while in the training scene when they transform, but the novel later quits on this idea and just switches to the shiny basketball as seen in the movie.
But, the story being told in a novelization format has its advantages over the movie, here there's no bad acting from Michael Jordan, or silly references, and certain scenes are more fleshed out and written better, focusing on the main story of Michael helping the Looney Tunes, with the omission of parts like the deal after the NBA stars have their talent stolen (no Baskteball Jones here), the spitting on the spit shine scene, and Lola kissing Bugs after he saves her.
One of my favorite added scenes takes place near the end, here, instead of Bill Murray randomly showing up as the 5th player (which was always odd to me), Roadrunner saves the day being the only cartoon character fast enough to pass the ball and play at a high speed when there are only seconds left for the match to end. Other great new scenes include the illustration of Michael's feelings, like when Stan gets beat up by the Monstars, Michael really feels for him and shows that he truly cared and appreciated Stan in the end. Or at the very last part when the NBA stars doubt Michael's capability of playing basketball since he's now a baseball player, now Jordan remembers his Looney Tunes friends and the lesson he himself taught them by making the Tune Squad believe in themselves through "Michael's secret stuff", so he believes in himself and squares up against his friends in a friendly match, later going back to basketball.
In conclusion, it's a 3 star kids novelization, but to any Space Jam fan it's easily 4 stars since any merch of the movie this good, which also delivers more than what's expected is very welcome.
However the novel has it's issues with continuity, losing track of certain moments while jumping from one scene to another, reintroducing characters that had already been presented, and changing certain ideas that were being implemented. An example of this is that the Nerdlocks in the novelization steal the talent of the NBA stars in liquid form, drinking it while in the training scene when they transform, but the novel later quits on this idea and just switches to the shiny basketball as seen in the movie.
But, the story being told in a novelization format has its advantages over the movie, here there's no bad acting from Michael Jordan, or silly references, and certain scenes are more fleshed out and written better, focusing on the main story of Michael helping the Looney Tunes, with the omission of parts like the deal after the NBA stars have their talent stolen (no Baskteball Jones here), the spitting on the spit shine scene, and Lola kissing Bugs after he saves her.
One of my favorite added scenes takes place near the end, here, instead of Bill Murray randomly showing up as the 5th player (which was always odd to me), Roadrunner saves the day being the only cartoon character fast enough to pass the ball and play at a high speed when there are only seconds left for the match to end. Other great new scenes include the illustration of Michael's feelings, like when Stan gets beat up by the Monstars, Michael really feels for him and shows that he truly cared and appreciated Stan in the end. Or at the very last part when the NBA stars doubt Michael's capability of playing basketball since he's now a baseball player, now Jordan remembers his Looney Tunes friends and the lesson he himself taught them by making the Tune Squad believe in themselves through "Michael's secret stuff", so he believes in himself and squares up against his friends in a friendly match, later going back to basketball.
In conclusion, it's a 3 star kids novelization, but to any Space Jam fan it's easily 4 stars since any merch of the movie this good, which also delivers more than what's expected is very welcome.
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July 26, 2021
Most people love Space jam for the nostalgia they have for it.
I'm not one of them. I just watched the movie for the first time last year and thought it was stupid. Oh, sorry, I mean Looney (Que Daffy Duck kissing his own butt). It is dumb and made primarily for kids, but that's not a bad thing. Had I seen it as a kid, I know it would have been my favorite movie of all time.
Now to prepare myself for the long overdue sequel starring Lebron James, I picked up this nice, short novelization to reinvest myself with "Space jam".
Now, why did I love this so much?
Because it is a looney story (no pun intended) rooted in reality in which the actual player, Michael Jordan, considered retiring from Basketball to pursue his father's game of Baseball. Failing to start anew, he returned to Basketball. This story tells how he could do such a thing- he needs to save the Looney Toons from slavery by an alien race!
I love this story, and Michael Jordan's honesty and sense of fun shone through the film, lifting it up completely for me. This book cuts down on all the bizarre 90's cheese the film overloaded with, and instead focuses upon Jordan's investment upon returning to the game of Basketball.
Hey, if it works it works, and thankfully, for me, it works.
I'm not one of them. I just watched the movie for the first time last year and thought it was stupid. Oh, sorry, I mean Looney (Que Daffy Duck kissing his own butt). It is dumb and made primarily for kids, but that's not a bad thing. Had I seen it as a kid, I know it would have been my favorite movie of all time.
Now to prepare myself for the long overdue sequel starring Lebron James, I picked up this nice, short novelization to reinvest myself with "Space jam".
Now, why did I love this so much?
Because it is a looney story (no pun intended) rooted in reality in which the actual player, Michael Jordan, considered retiring from Basketball to pursue his father's game of Baseball. Failing to start anew, he returned to Basketball. This story tells how he could do such a thing- he needs to save the Looney Toons from slavery by an alien race!
I love this story, and Michael Jordan's honesty and sense of fun shone through the film, lifting it up completely for me. This book cuts down on all the bizarre 90's cheese the film overloaded with, and instead focuses upon Jordan's investment upon returning to the game of Basketball.
Hey, if it works it works, and thankfully, for me, it works.
August 11, 2021
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August 27, 2021Space Jam 1996
November 16, 2023
The most unrealistic part: Michael Jordan checking on someone who was just flattened Looney Tunes style
July 15, 2024
Really cute book
September 18, 2024
Got this in a shiftythrifting bookbox and decided to give it a read. Very nostalgic. 🤣😁
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