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4.4/5 Barnes & Noble Publisher Henry Holt and Co Pages 224 Illustrator Janet Tashjian ISBN 9780805089035 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 7/6/2010 Originally published 6 July 2010 Page count 224 Followed by My Life as a Stuntboy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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My life as a book by janet tashjian with cartoons by jake tashjian
My Life As a Book is a middle grade novel by Janet Tashjian, illustrated by her teenage son, Jake Tashjian. It is the first book in the My Life As a... series. It is published by many companies. It is used in many schools as well as several city-wide reads. It has been translated into ten languages including Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew, Turkish, Czech, and German. Its sequels - My Life As a Stuntboy and My Life As a Cartoonist - have also been translated into several languages.
Contents
- My life as a book by janet tashjian with cartoons by jake tashjian
- Janet and jake tashjian talk about their book my life as a book
- Reluctant Reader Background
- Awards and Reviews
- References
The novel tells the story of Derek Fallon, a twelve-year-old boy who finds reading difficult. As a way to learn his vocabulary words, he illustrates them in the margins of the book. When he discovers a newspaper in the attic with the story of a girl who drowned on Martha's Vineyard, he spends his summer trying to uncover the mystery of what happened instead of completing his summer reading list.
Settings: Martha's Vineyard, Store, Animal Care, Derek's House
Janet and jake tashjian talk about their book my life as a book
Reluctant Reader Background
Tashjian wanted to write a book for reluctant readers with the humor and visual support of a Calvin and Hobbes book. (The novel is dedicated to Bill Waterson.) She incorporated the methods of several reading programs into the novels such as Lindamood Bell’s ‘Visualizing and Verbalizing’ and Maryanne Wolf’s ‘Rave-O.’
Awards and Reviews
“A kinder, gentler Wimpy Kid with all the fun and more plot.” Kirkus, starred review.