Substitute Creacher

Name: Substitute Creacher
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Chris Gall
ISBN: 9781549104534

Author: Chris Gall

Narrator: Steve Hendrickson

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Published: 06/30/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Holiday Stories, Children's Graphic Novels, School, Fairy Tales, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

The troublemaking students of Ms. Jenkins' class arrive at school one day to discover a substitute creacher has come to put a stop to their monkey business! He regales them with mind-boggling stories about his former students who didn't follow the rules: Keith the glue-eater, Zach the daydreamer, and Hank the prankster, to name a few. But even this multi-tentacled, yellow-spotted, one-eyed monster's cautionary tales about the consequences of mischief-making can't seem to change the students' wicked ways until he reveals the spookiest and most surprising story of all: his own.

Chris Gall's vibrant artwork leaps off the page with a dynamic comic book aesthetic that will grab both parents and monster-loving kids!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick

I had trouble figuring out the intended audience for this book. The audience has to be old enough to know about school, substitute teachers, common school rules and several other things before it will make sense, but the format seems aimed at younger than that. The initial premise, of a substitute te......more

Goodreads review by Brenda

Don't really get the love I read on the Interwebz about this book. Loved the art and the beginning. Felt the rhyme alternating with prose awkward, the reason behind the creacher's existence felt forced and the ending just didn't make sense. Everything's the same 49 years later? Or, am I missing some......more

Goodreads review by Racheal

Holy moley that was fun! I had a grin on my face the entire time! It's perfectly spooky for Halloween with a ton of gross-out classroom humor that kids (I'm including myself as a big kid here) love, with a surprisingly well-developed story that's even a bit touching in the end. I also thought the rh......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

I'm your substitute, but I'm not going to teach you anything. Just be your nanny and tell you what happens when kids misbehave. Then the magical gnome thinks I've made restitution and time goes 40 years in the past, and we all live happily ever after. The end. No kid is going to learn from this or f......more

Goodreads review by Ruth

My 6 year old granddaughter loved this book!......more

Quotes

* "Combines humor and a touch of magic.... certain to provide more than a few laughs."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "This is a delicious little shocker of a picture book that ought to whip... crowd[s] of youngsters into a shrieking, laughing frenzy."—Booklist, starred review

"Explosive, cinematic panels; retro Ben-Day dot patterns allude to classic funnies."—Publishers Weekly

"Colorful and catchy... [a] gleeful cautionary tale."—School Library Journal

"Mr. Creacher's cautionary tales, told in rhyme, are as appealing as Chris Gall's bold, cartoonlike drawings. It's an educational horror story with a happy ending."—USA Today