The School Carnival from the Black Lagoon

Black Lagoon Adventures #7

by Mike Thaler, Jared Lee (Illustrator)

Every class has to come up with an idea for a booth at the school carnival. Too bad your class has chosen your idea: a dunking booth and they want you to be the one who gets dunked! Boy are you sunk - because you can't even swim! And to top it all off, you heard there might be sharks in the dunking tank! yikes!

Genres: Childrens, Chapter Books

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Mike Thaler, born in Los Angeles, started his professional career drawing cartoons for adults. A children's book editor saw one of his cartoon stories in a national magazine and encouraged Mike to try writing for children. His first attempt met with success, and "The Magic Boy" was published in 1961.

Mike has produced over 220 published books and is known as “America’s Riddle King.” He has also been called “The Court Jester of Children’s Literature.”

Mike Thaler lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Patty. He gladly welcomes all invitations to do church and school programs, and other book events.

Mike travels each year throughout the world helping children and teachers create their own stories, riddles, and books. He writes and teaches with creativity, inspiring his audiences with a love of language.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[melhara · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with most Black Lagoon books, this book was filled with fun puns (this time, it's a bunch of carnival or fair-related puns).

Hubie's class needs to brainstorm ideas for the school's fundraising carnival. They settle on a dunking booth and Hubie was selected to be the one who gets dunked. The problem is - Hubie can't swim!

This was a fun story and I like that Hubie gets over his fear of water.

----------------------------------------------
Part of a personal challenge to read all of my boyfriend's and his sister's childhood books before we donate and give them away.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every class must come up with a booth for the school carnival, and Hubie's class decides on a dunking booth, and guess who's the dunkee? This leads to Hubie taking swimming lessons. The big day of the school carnival arrives, but will Hubie take the plunge in order for the school to raise funds for a guest author to visit and sign some of his books?

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every class has to come up with an idea for a booth at the school carnival. Too bad class has chosen your idea a drinking booth. They want you to be the gets dunked! Boy are you sunk because you can't swim! It's fun book to read!

[Ruby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked when I saw the kisses and hugs booth because it was so funny. We don't do kisses at school!

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

We can’t figure out how the dunk contraption is at all feasible (kids are 8 1/2)

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it.My favrite part was when he and the mouse got watered out.

[Isaac Brewer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gabe read this one by himself!!

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

This kid does the absolute most for something that doesn't require much effort.

[Allison Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 1st grade son just loves these books. We find the puns so funny. We loved that Mike Thaler, the author made an appearance in this book.

[Anamarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a medium type of book. I liked it because of the wierd carnival games they made up, like the beast. I really hope you get to the part where the boy has to go to swimming school, very funny.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eli read this one.

[Jocelyn Montalvo Cullum]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/14138179