2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Great tool for kids, 2006-10-28
Wanda Belch is the new cafeteria lady at school. Rumor has it that kids found shoes in her food at her old job and that she now drives a garbage truck. But the kids at her new job soon find out that lunch and their new cafeteria lady aren't as scary as they thought.
This is a great book that not only teaches kids how untrue rumors can be and how silly some fears can be, but also that appearances are deceiving. It does NOT, as a previous person mentioned, deride or make a mockery of the food service industry. It actually shows kids that their cafeteria workers are not evil, but honest and hard-working people. Anyone who thinks differently of this book has obviously NOT read it.
This is a great book and I highly recommend it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Fun for kids!, 2000-10-09
As my son was being prepped for his transition from preschool to kindergarten, we bought a few of the Black Lagoon books. He found them to be hilarious and it helped take off the edge when going to his new school.These are funny books!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Just for Fun!, 1999-10-19
Mike Thaler has a way of entertaining children. My first graders have giggled their way through all of the the "Black Lagoon" series. The premise is that the boy has a very vivid imagination, and finds out in the end that his fears were for not. This is NOT a critique of school lunch, rather the opposite. The little boy fears school lunch will be awful...and finds out it's so good he wants to go back and have seconds! This series, however fun, is not for the humor-challenged among us. It's all just for fun!
1 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
Story line is offensive and inappropriate for small children, 1999-02-06
I fail to see the humor in the author's thesis. The representation of school lunch as "garbage" is not only unfitting and inappropriate, it is inaccurate.
School foodservice programs throughout the country are not only customer oriented and cost effective, they provide the main source of nutrition to over 25 million of our nation's school children, most of whom live at or below the poverty level. To use this subject matter as a means of humor is not just offensive. It is without merit or basis of fact.