Mrs. Master is a Disaster! by Dan Gutman - ADVISABLE

Gutman, Dan  Mrs. Master is a Disaster! (My Weirdest School, #8), 105 pgs.  Illustrated by Jim Paillot  CHAPTER BOOK  Harper, 2017.  $4.99  Content: G.  

After Grandparents Day at the school, A.J. is inspired by Alexia’s grandmother who is an inventor.  A.J. with the help of his friends, teachers and Alexia’s grandmother decides to invent a “Party Pooper”.  The Party Pooper is a heated, light up toilet seat that will have a conversation with the person sitting on it.  After making and selling a thousand of these seats, the product malfunctions and starts on fire so they have to take them all back.  In the end they say “Oh well”.  

This is one of those books that as an adult I have many issues with  including, but not limited to, the amount of “potty” talk, characters calling each other “dumbhead” and the unrealitistic fact that teachers put up thousands of their own dollars for the toilet seats and then everyone just said “oh well” when it didn’t work out.  That said, my second grade son loves this series.  The illustrations are cartoon-ish and entertaining, the humor is right on par for a seven year old boy and the vocabulary is simple and makes for an easy read.   

EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.