Baloney (Henry P.)

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Baloney (Henry P.)
Baloneyhenryp.jpg
Author Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith
Cover artist Lane Smith
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOuter Space
Genre children's book
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
2001
Publication place United States
Pages40
ISBN 978-0-14-240430-0
OCLC 61661264

Baloney (Henry P.) is a children's picture book written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. It was published in 2001 by Viking Press. [1]

Contents

Plot

The book tells the story of an alien schoolchild who has an excellent reason for being late for school – he had been blasted off into space.

About the text

The book encourages the reader to work out the meaning of a word from its context. The apparently alien words sprinkled throughout the text are actually from Earth languages.

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References

  1. Scieszka, Jon (2001). Baloney, Henry P. New York: Viking. ISBN   9780142404300.