About this title: Seventeen very short stories about the everyday adventures of the Hocky family appear in this parody of basal readers. Stories include the problem of grandma's extra-smelly perfume, and how a brother and sister seek revenge against a cousin who breaks all their toys. Stick figure illustrations accompany the text.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Children's Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670852062ISBN:0670852066
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 64 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Trumpet Special Ed
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780440833116ISBN:0440833116
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Trumpet Special Ed
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780440833116ISBN:0440833116
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Reader copy. Hardcover. cover and corner wear. no dust jacket. note in first page. smal tear in edge of first page. tiny stain on cover. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Trumpet Club
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780440833116ISBN:0440833116
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. clean & tight, cover has crease (and upper pg corners have a lithe crease) to upper edge, edgewear, 61 p. read more
Description: New. 0140557717 New from the publisher-has remainder mark. Ships within 1 business day. Your 100% satisfaction is our guarantee! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670852062ISBN:0670852066
Description: Lane Smith illus. Very good No jacket. 2nd edition; pictorial binding; illustrated endpapers; PO name & bookplate on front endpaper. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Trumpet Club
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780440833116ISBN:0440833116
Description: Illustrated by Design By Molly Leach. Very Good. 0-440-83311-6. Softcover-Very Good--Fine condition. no stamps or writing, approx. size 7" wide X 9" tall. pages look like new, nice used book, read more
Description: Very Good. 0140557717 This book is really new, but has a few scuff patches on the front. Pages look unread. Remainder mark Free bookmarks with all orders and all orders ship same or next business day! 233. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780140557718ISBN:0140557717
Description: Smith, Lane. Good. Picture Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good. First Printing. There is some wear and much creasing to the cover. The pages are crisp and clean. No tears, no scribbles, no writing. NOT an ex-library book! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Cover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1993
Description: Lane Smith. Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library First edition ex-lib pictorial hardcover with mylar-covered dustjacket. Usual ex-lib marks. Otherwise G/G; clean and tight. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1993
Description: VG-/Good+. , DJ. 8vo, 61, Light wear to covers. DJ has general wear. DJ is not price clipped. Clean copy-no school or library markings. read more
"This book is so special, I just had to create a whole new shelf for it.
We passed through Niantic today, had lots of store credit to burn at the Book Barn, and two small boys eating too many free donuts (the small "chocolate" coated ones that taste like wax). It was time to go, but I spotted this, vaguely remembered reading it in the 90s and finding it funny, grabbed it and got us out of there. Later at home, with the boys asleep, I had the chance to look over my purchases more leisurely and reread it. This book is wickedly funny -- it's a parody of early readers -- and it's a mercy my cackles didn't wake the house. But the tragedy is that as much as I love it, I will not be able to read to this to my older son, who would take it at face value and find it completely devastating. Consider the chapter titled "Holly's Boat":
Holly's boat will not float. "Little Boat, why won't you float?" asks Holly. "Do not be afraid, little boat. You can do it...FLOAT!" "You're right!", said Holly's boat. "I CAN do it..." "I CAN DO IT..." Holly's Boat floated away and away. Holly had to buy a new boat.
Cue tears and furious demands to write the author a letter and make him change the story. Perhaps I'll share this one with T when he's in his 20s..."
"The simple block illustrations and short sentence narrative screams "beginning reader." But unlike "Dick and Jane" books, there is a subtle, almost wicked humor throughout this book. It's funny, and yet great for new readers and parents alike."
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