How to Train Your Dad
Published on 16. September 2021
320 pages
978-1-5290-6931-0 (ISBN)
Description
From Gary Paulsen, the award-winning author of Hatchet, comes a laugh-out-loud eco-adventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.
Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his dad; he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for 'salvageable' junk and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will think aEUR" and encouraged by his riotous best friend aEUR" Carl decides to use a puppy-training pamphlet to 'retrain' his dadaEUR (TM)s mindset . . . a crackpot experiment that produces some hilarious results!
How To Train Your Dad is a fierce and funny novel about family, friendship and green-living from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.
Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his dad; he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for 'salvageable' junk and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will think aEUR" and encouraged by his riotous best friend aEUR" Carl decides to use a puppy-training pamphlet to 'retrain' his dadaEUR (TM)s mindset . . . a crackpot experiment that produces some hilarious results!
How To Train Your Dad is a fierce and funny novel about family, friendship and green-living from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.
Reviews / Votes
Breezy and light, with a grounding touch of tenderness, this is both an entertaining solo read and a solid suggestion for family sharing. -- <i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</i> Newbery Honoree Paulsen, renowned for his tales of survival, revisits the humor and hijinks found in his Liar, Liar series. Carl's hang-dog descriptions of having to wear pink overalls and ride an "original creation" bike are funny and endearing, and eternal optimist Pooder is the perfect sidekick to perpetually resigned Carl. And underneath the training mishaps is a sweet story about a kid who figures out that his life?and his dad?may not be so bad after all. -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i>More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 11 years
File size
1,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5290-6931-0 (9781529069310)
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Person
Gary Paulsen (1939-2021) wrote more than two hundred books for children and adults. Three of his novels - Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room - were Newbery Honor books. In 1997, he received the ALA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. His books have sold over 35 million copies around the world.
