Wayside School Is Falling Down

I recently read Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar at the urging of one of my CASA children. I was a big fan of Sideways Stories From Wayside School when I was a kid, but I wasn't exactly enthusiastic to pick up the sequel. I offered to read it to my children, but there were no takers. I read without consent to my middle child, who was pretty disturbed by the first story. (This statement is more telling about my son's serious nature than the content of the story.)

If you haven't read either Wayside book, the books are full of short, silly stories full of irony and humor. But I really think their virtues are best appreciated by the under eleven crowd. (Not that I didn't chuckle at a few of the stories...)