The books are still great but the illustrations are different!

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	• Wayside School Boxed Set: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideway ... Louis Sachar HarperTrophy, 1996 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 43 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Best Children's Seris you will Find

This is the school where it is not weird to read a story backwards, bring a hobo to school for show and tell, or see faces in your cafeteria lunch goop.

The Wayside seris is a seris of books about Mrs. Jewel's class, who are on the 30th floor of a not so normal school. Louis Sacher has the chapter revolve around a different student each chapter. These kids get into the funniest and bizare situations.

For example, Benjamin Nushmutt is a new student to Mrs. Jewels' class in Wayside School is Falling Down. Mrs. Jewels mistakes him for someone else and thinks that his name is Mark Miller. Benjamin goes throughout the entire book trying to work up his nerve to tell Mrs. Jewels who he really is.

Also the students are currently haunted by their former teacher who used to turn them into apples. This brings up many funny scenes.

You will finish this book wishing that you had been able to be a student in Mrs. Jewel's class. The laughs and great stories never end.

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Great purchase

Growing up this was my favorite book series, but unfortunately those books wore out and I just had to get a fresh set. Purchasing my books gave me quality and a new peice of my childhood back.Thanks Amazon!!
-Dewayn Boyd

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Wayside School Review

This book is about the students and teachers of wayside school. Every chapter tells about a different teacher or student, and thire problems.
My favorite part of this book was ch. 10. This ch. was a bout this boy named paul in mrs Jewls class. Paul sat t= in the back. He sat behind this girl lesslie. Lesslie had 2 long brown pigtails just dangling there waiting for him to pull them so he did. Pail got his name written on the board under the word DISIPLINE. the a little whil after, he did it again. Then he got a check next to his name. Then out of nowhere leslie yells "yahhhhhhhhh" and then he went home on the kindergarden bus.
I would recamend this book to kids that like funny books. This is a fun and easy book to read. This would also be a good book to readwith a group of kids. This is also a good book to read if you are either sad or mad. This would cheer you up. I eally liked this book. I rated it 4 stars.

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My son loves these books!

My son just could read these books fast enough. I think he's become a big fan of this book series. He's even got me reading them. They have a wonderful wackiness about them that can't help but make you giggle at the genius of the silliness that is Wayside School.

The books are still great but the illustrations are different!

This set, 'Wayside School Boxed Set' is also known as 'The Wayside School Collection' and contains all three of the "real" books in the 'Wayside School' series. 'Sideways Stories From Wayside School', 'Wayside School is Falling Down' and 'Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger' are as entertaining as they always were. The price is very good and you even get the three boxes together in a box. Please note that you do not get the Wayside Arithmetic books, which really were for more devoted fans and did nothing to enhance the actual storyline found in the three major/main books.

The only problem I had here was with the illustrations. I grew up reading the 'Wayside School' books, as they were illustrated by Julie Brinckloe. For years, I had a very clear picture of all the characters from Wayside School. Brinckloe's illustrations were very good at making the characters match Louis Sachar's descriptions. They've been stuck in my head for fifteen to twenty years. These three titles in the 'Wayside School' box set are illustrated by Adam McCauley and the difference is startling. I have a hard time warming up to the new (and inferior) artwork. Even though I like having the three books in a tidy little set, I definitely prefer Brinckloe's illustrations of the Wayside gang.

Everybody knows that Louis Sachar's humor was the real calling card for the 'Wayside School' series and not the pictures. However, you may want to stick with earlier copies of these books if you grew up looking at Julie Brinckloe's illustrations, as I did. Adam McCauley's illustrations are inferior in every way. The drawings are more juvenile and they don't look much like the original characters.

Don't get me wrong. The books are great, among the best children's literature you can buy for around $10 (the average price of the set). I'm still giving this four stars but you need to think about it a little before buying this box set. Unless you have no real attachment to the earlier artwork or are a first-time reader of the 'Wayside School' series, you'll want to track down the earlier copies. The "original" books are widely available for a great price in paperback, even if you have to buy them separately.

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