How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Mark Teague

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Crown Publications
08 July 1997

Picture books; Early learning & early learning concepts; General fiction (Children's&YA)

This wildly funny twist on the ""How I spent my summer vacation"" school-essay ritual details one child's imaginary adventures over the summer and is perfect for back-to-school reading!

Most kids go to camp over the summer, or to Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home. Not Wallace Bleff. He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West--from riding buckin' broncos to roping cattle. Lucky for Aunt Fern, he showed up at her house just in time to divert a stampede from her barbecue party! Perfect for back-to-school read-alouds, here's a western fantasy with sparkling illustrations and enough action to knock kids' boots off!

By: Mark Teague
Imprint: Crown Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 256mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 133g
ISBN: 9780517885567
ISBN 10: 0517885565
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 08 July 1997
Recommended Age: 3-7
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile , English as a second language , 0-5 years
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Teague is a New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator of children's literature. Some of his most popular works are the Dinosaur series, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, and Poppleton series. He lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife, Laura, and two children, Lillias and Ava.

Reviews for How I Spent My Summer Vacation

In an illustration bounded by neat white borders, Wallace Bleff writes How I Spent My Summer Vacation on the blackboard at school. Then imagination takes over as a steam engine thunders right out of the wall and readers are transported to the Wild West, depicted larger-than-life in full-bleed oil paintings. Captured by cowboys, Wallace acquires a fancy cowpoke costume, learns to rope and ride, and bravely diverts a stampede, matador-style. The rhyming text derives much of its humor from its interplay with the illustrations. When Wallace's Aunt Fern calls to invite the cowboys to a barbecue, the illustration shows Wallace in a modern phone booth, plunk in the middle of nowhere. In another spread, fat longhorn cattle stampede directly toward Aunt Fern's, where a green, mowed lawn borders abruptly on scrubby desert. The jokes continue right up to the final page, where Teague playfully trounces any last remaining boundaries between fantasy and reality. Rip-roaring fun. (Kirkus Reviews)