The author acknowledges classic children's literature without igniting enthusiasm for it. Likewise, visual icons like Alice and Bo Peep may be present, but without their attendant narratives, they lack substance. Miss Smith seems like a wayward character from some other tale, and child character Zack barely registers on the plot. Penguin Putnam Inc Miss Smiths Incredible Storybook (English, Paperback, Garland Michael). Garland ( The Mouse Before Christmas) styles petite Miss Smith as a punk-rock throwback, but he doesn't draw any connection between her distinctive looks and the storybook's powers. Before long, familiar characters like the Three Bears, Headless Horseman, Cowardly Lion and Mad Hatter are on the loose, and Miss Smith has to get them under control. When a dragon emerges, he flees, and the giddy children pass the book around. One day, Miss Smith is late and the school principal picks up the magic tome. As Miss Smith reads, fantasy characters appear and the classroom transforms into a pirate ship or a fairy-tale forest until the story is complete.
But he has no idea just how different it will. But the day went along like every school day Zack could remember-until Miss Smith said, 'It's story time.' " The teacher opens a leather-bound volume with a filigree cover, and the pages begin to glow. When Zack meets his second-grade teacher, Miss Smith, he can tell right away that her class will be different.
With her spiky red-orange hair, leather jacket and "The Clash" pin, "Miss Smith seemed very. Miss Smiths Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland 4.
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