Even children who don't yet have homework will long to try out a few of these wild explanations for themselves. The other 20 or so excuses and their illustrations are equally entertaining. "Giant lizards invaded my neighborhood," the boys says, as a huge alligator holds a school bus in its jaws, and a lizard nabs the boy's homework with its sticky tongue. Things look good at first the boy is in his place at his desk, his book open in front of him but closer inspection reveals two giddy elves underneath the desk with pencils sticking out of their ears and noses. "Elves hid all of my pencils," he offers. Chaud (The Bear's Song) draws an army of monkeys invading the boy's study, swinging from the light, mussing his hair, and scattering his papers. Doing your homework requires a lot of brainpower, so you need to feed your brain. One of the reasons that you may be feeling distracted is that your brain doesn’t have the proper nutrients it needs to function. I am so sorry to hear about your family situation. But there are always ways around things, and there is no cookie-cutter path in life. I feel similarly when I don’t receive the grades I want - my anxieties snowball and become debilitating. "An airplane full of monkeys landed in our yard," he tries. Late work won’t be allowed in your future career, either. A few missed homework assignments will not ruin your life. The narrator, a boy dressed in a suit and tie, negotiates with his teacher. Chaud's crabbed pen-and-ink drawings give a distinctly Gothic sensibility to Cali's (The Bear with the Sword) sly collection of homework excuses.
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