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How do you spot
weird parents?
(A few tips)
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"Writing this story was a bit like cheating. I just thought about the
things that always embarrassed our son when he was growing up. The
parents are Don and Audrey Wood, the boy is our son, Bruce Robert Wood."
-Audrey Wood |
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They laugh outloud in movies when no one else does. |
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They show your friends how to do a dance called "the funky chicken." |
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They blow huge kisses at you when you are walking away. |
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Publishers Weekly Review April 27, 1990
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"Everyone knows the mortification of having parents who are 'different' - and no one better than Wood, or so it would seem from this oddball and thoroughly captivating book. Her brilliantly colored paintings, awash in quirky details, are rendered with joyous abandon. In a deadpan text, she portrays the world of a conventional boy who has been cursed - or is it blessed? - with parents who are unabashedly and very publicly eccentric. 'Watching her son depart in the school bus, his mother would blow a huge kiss and press her hand to her heart.' In the end, this poor lad's embarrassment is balanced by his affection
for his parents' oddities. These feelings of affection coexist despite
the seeming contradiction, Wood skillfully suggests, as in real life."
Ages 4-8.
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"Can't tell you how much my students and I LOVE Weird Parents"
- Michelle Amey, First Grade Teacher. |
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