The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School |  | Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Yearling
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 24724
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0440422299
EAN: 9780440422297
ASIN: 0440422299
Publication Date: July 14, 2009
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Product Description
These contemporary “fables” are instructive, hilarious, and now in paperback!
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 yellow-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. She’s sure she’ll get 100 percent on her spelling test. But when the teacher, Mr. Jupiter, asks the class to spell cat, all Amisha can come up with is kat. The moral this time? Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
Here’s a collection of contemporary fables about a hilariously rambunctious group of kids and their amazing teacher that is sure to delight students and teachers alike!
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Recommended to me September 13, 2009
C. Green (Dayton, OH, USA)
This book was recommended to me when I shifted to 4th grade. I actually drag this one out
all year. I only read aloud the chapters to my students that actually coincide (did I spell that correctly?) with our own classroom events. It leaves them dying for more and is a great
point for comparison when discussing fairy tales, fables, and other unique works of fiction.
Clever title, good read-aloud August 27, 2009
D. Whicker (Indiana, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I teach 4th grade. I think one of the most important things I do for my kids is to read to them. It models good reading, phrasing. It exposes them to books and writers they may not have explored on their own. I was looking for some new books to read aloud. I loved the title of this book. At first I was disappointed, but then it began to grow on me. It's not the best book I've found for reading aloud (Tale of Depereaux, Holes, HP book 3, are better written), but this book has its charm. I can use it to introduce or to enrich a unit on fables. I am sure my colleagues will enjoy the chapter about standardized testing So sometime this school year, my students will meet their peers from Aesop Elementary School.
 Great Idea, Poor Execution July 19, 2009
Mr. Lauren Berns (St. Petersburg, FL USA)
This book couldn't hold my 10 year old's attention (and, yes he loves books and has plenty of attention span). He saw quickly through the blatant lesson giving and wasn't amused. To teach anyone (even children) lessons that'll stick, the underlying story must be compelling without the lesson so that the lesson sneaks up on you. We already had Aesop's fables, we didn't need this.
 This book was a hilarious, fun read!!!!!!!!!! June 10, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementry School was an instant like. I love the way that the author created the charachters by giving them funny names that reflected each charachter's personality/role, such as Paige Turner, (the librarian)Missy Place,(a girl who spontainiously loses her mittens again and again) and Mrs. Gluteal (the gym teacher). Each story has a moral to it like each of Aesop's fables. (Honesty is the best policy, slow and steady wins the race, etc.,etc.)There is a little bit of "gross stuff" like poop, burps, the like. As I read though, I got a profound feeling of how each charachter felt. The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementry School is a book I highly recommend to everyone!
a ton of fun! June 10, 2009
third time mom (Naperville, IL United States)
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School is a fun, imaginative modern age fairy tale. The characters' names are often plays on words (librarian "Paige Turner"); many of which will go right over the heads of the intended audience but adults will get (smart kid "Stanford Binet"). Mr. Jupiter is the new teacher to a group of infamously misbehaving fourth graders. He (in fairytale fashion) walks in off the street asking the principal for a job the day before school starts and is hired on the spot.
The book is a series of short stories, very much like traditional Aesop's fables. Most are 5-10 pages long and each ends with a traditional Aesop's fable moral, but the stories are modern and the setting is the classroom. So whereas traditional Aesop would tell the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, this book tells the story of a not-very-booksmart girl who memorizes a 58 line poem, a little bit each day, in order to win a poetry contest over a poetry-know-it-all who was SO sure she had the contest won that she stopped competing. The stories have characters we all knew or know as kids so readers will enjoy reading them. There is enough elements of fantasy and whimsy that the entire story is still understood to be a make believe fairy tale, such as the 1000+ page books the kids work from, the geothermal chemistry textbooks, and the purpoted past of the teacher, Mr. Jupiter (past jobs include working at the Coochie-Coochie school of Misbehaved Monkeys, teaching hula dancing at Balderdash Acadamy for Boys, and teaching Swahili as a second language in Switzerland). Who knows what Mr. Jupiter's past *really* is, but it's plain that he cares about the kids and the kids really respond to him.
We checked this book out from the library but I will very likely buy a copy for my kids as I think it's one we'd like to reread many times. It would make a fun bedtime read for older kids or a great read-aloud in a classroom.
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