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The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780440422297
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $19.99

The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

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10 Mar 2009
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15 Oct 2009
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With all the appeal of Louis Sachar's SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, Fleming's book is engaging and entertaining -- perfect for reluctant readers. Teachers and librarians will love it too, with its cast of classroom characters that includes a lovelorn librarian, an empathic globe-trotting teacher, and a group of rambunctious students that behave in ways that cleverly illustrate Aesop-ian morals.

Here's a chapter book of contemporary fables about a rambunctious group of fourth graders and their amazing teacher—the globe-trotting, Mayan-ceremonial-robe-wearing Mr. Jupiter—that is sure to delight students and teachers alike. Kids will laugh out loud as they learn tried-and-true lessons in this funny, fast-paced book.

The fourth graders at Aesop Elementary are, well, unusual. There's Calvin Tallywong, who wants to go back to kindergarten. But when he actually gets the chance, he's forced to do the squirrel dance and wear a school bus name tag. The moral of his story? Be careful what you wish for. Then there's Amisha Spelwadi, who can spell wildebeest, no problem. But when Mr. Jupiter asks the class to spell cat, all Amisha can come up with is kat. The moral: Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 

And don't miss the class's continued adventures in The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming.
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780440422297
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is the award-winning author of more than fifty books for children and young adults. The recipient of the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award and Margaret A. Edwards Award, she has written many acclaimed nonfiction titles, including Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown, winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime, which received four starred reviews; The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, also a YALSA recipient; and The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was recognized as a Sibert Nonfiction Honor Book. Her beloved picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book, and Oh, No!, which received three starred reviews.
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Also by Candace Fleming

Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Death in the Jungle
Narwhal
Mine!
Murder Among Friends
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
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