Dan Gutman’s Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy is a silly school story for 8 year olds about a new librarian who keeps turning up as somebody else entirely.<\/p>\n
This is book three of My Weird School, and A.J.’s school has a brand-new library, and there’s a giant tree growing right up the middle of it with a tree house at the top. Brilliant. Except the new librarian, Mrs. Roopy, is off sick on the very first day.<\/p>\n
Instead, George Washington climbs down the ladder. He’s got a white wig, a sword and a set of wind-up chattering teeth. He insists it’s 1790 and computers haven’t been invented yet.<\/p>\n
Next time it’s Johnny Appleseed, barefoot with a pot on his head, who takes them outside to plant an apple tree. Then it’s Neil Armstrong, coming down the ladder very slowly in a spacesuit.<\/p>\n
Andrea, who knows everything, says it’s obviously Mrs. Roopy in costume. A.J. isn’t so sure. And anyway, does it matter? (He’s quite enjoying library time, not that he’d ever admit it.)<\/p>\n
His big position is that all books are boring. Every week Miss Daisy asks if he still thinks so. Every week he says yes!<\/p>\n
So the gang go full detective. Michael’s dad is a policeman, so the plan is to get Mrs. Roopy’s fingerprints off a juice box. It’s much harder than it sounds, especially once Nursery Rhyme Week starts and Little Bo Peep comes skipping into the classroom.<\/p>\n
A.J.’s voice is the fun of it. He takes everything literally (“fiction is what you get when you rub two things together”) and he’s never, ever wrong, even when he is.<\/p>\n
There’s a quiet point under all the silliness, about finding the right book for a child who swears they hate reading. You’ll probably see it coming before your reader does.<\/p>\n
It’s very American (second grade, recess, a dollar bill with George Washington on it), and A.J. is as rude about Andrea as ever. Short chapters too, which suits a child who likes their laughs quick.<\/p>\n
If they want more of the same class, Ms. Hannah Is Bananas has an art teacher in a dress made of pot holders, and A.J. is quite sure that art is stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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