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The Scrambled States of America Talent Show
By Keller, Laurie S.
Publishers Summary:
Those wacky scrambled states are back. This time they’ve come together for a spectacular show featuring their many goofball talents. But just when Indiana (the director) is about to call SHOWTIME!, Georgia gets a bad case of stage fright and can’t perform in her juggling act. Will the show go on, or will it be curtains? In this winning companion to The Scrambled States of America, young readers will revel in the madcap adventure and silly antics all while learning interesting facts about states and geography.
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REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2008
K-Gr 4 New York wakes up in the middle of the night and shouts, "Hey, everyonelet's have a talent show!" The other states jump right in to prepare and perform their acts. Illustrations and layouts are similar to those in "The Scrambled States of America" Holt, 1998), with cartoon characters shaped like state maps dancing and prancing on stick legs and wisecracking all over the pages. There's plenty to giggle at: Texas trying to ska...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on April 1, 2009
In this follow-up to , Uncle Sam emcees a talent show starring Minnesota the Magnificent, the New States on the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on August 8, 2008
This companion to the popular lets readers know right away they are in for a treat, with endpapers that do the impossible: make statehood dates and abbreviations funny. "Hey, Idahoyou and Laurie Keller have the same BIRTHDAY!" "Hmmm, I wonder which one of us is older?" With Laurie Keller's good-natured zaniness, an otherwise straightforward plotif you accept the premise of an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
