I thought I would share a children’s book I received with you in exchange for a review. The new book is called My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris . Inside this post is my affiliate links. if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage off the products you purchase.
My Headache Has a Bellyache will make you stop and think Then you will find yourself scratching your head as you look at the funny title. Can you imagine that My Head Has A Bellyache because I couldn’t see my head having a bellyache could you? Come and join me and let’s read this book together once we get through checking out the cover with the Birds that have clothes on them. Yes, I said clothes.
Charlie has graduated from #Homeschool but I still believe Charlie should begin the morning by reading 30 minutes every morning. But getting Charlie to sit down and read is worse than pulling teeth when it comes to Charlie. I’m so happy to say this morning Charlie actually picked a book up off my desk because he thought the title was funny and he liked the cover.
As a mom I knew to be quite and watch and see what Charlie did. Charlie might just carry the book from room to room. Or Charlie might look at the cover and sit the book down and never pick it back up. Or Charlie might actually open the book up and began to read the story. If I am lucky Charlie might share with me what he was reading.
LORD, help me I hear Charlie laughing do I ask what is funny or just be quiet? I keep working with my head down and then I hear mom look at this and its a picture from the book. I look and go back to work. Then again, I hear mom, look. Then Charlie ask me to come sit next to hm as he is looking through the book.
OMG Charlie is reading My Head Has Bellyache And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups. Now Charlie has his notebook making notes from the book that he wants to share with his dad. Before we know it a hour has passed and Charlie is reading the book page by page.
Then Charlie says mom can I take this book upstairs I want to show Tank and Future what I was reading this morning. I let Charlie know that is okay but to make sure and put the book up so it doesn’t get messed up. Later that evening David comes in and Charlie comes downstairs to show his dad the book.
They end up sitting on the couch thumbing through the book and I hear them laughing and laughing. David is even reading the book to Charlie. Which was a God moment. Once they finish Charlie and David let me know they would like to share My Head Has Bellyache And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups with my nephew Jason who will enjoy the storyline a lot.
I believe My Head Has Bellyache And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups is for Middle School teachers, but I can also see smaller children enjoying some of the information if the parents read the book to them. As well as adults’ especially men although women will find it funny as well.
If you don’t believe me just look at the cover which is read and catches your eye. Then look at the individual on the cover. Didn’t you wonder what he was doing? I know you smiled when you thought about him. How about the Bird with a sock on his head? Did you see the child on the back of the book with the blue hat on? Wouldn’t you want a hat like this? Charlie and I do.
Charlie liked knowing no; animals were harmed in making this book. Thank the LORD. Look the book admits sometimes Dads are no help at all. If you disagree just ask mom, who will say the book is right as rain. if you bite yur nails you can stop because there is a nail-biting Fairy in the book that can cut them for you.
This year Charlie will be turning 16 and I plan on printing out | The Most Disobedient Kid In The World” |My Head Has Bellyache And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups” to hang up in Charlies room. Because it isn’t about Charlie being bad but how he is growing up and up and up.
Now its time for you to pick up a copy of My Head Has Bellyache And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups and pick up your and your children’s favorite snacks and beverages. Then find your favorite seats and read this book to them because I only shared a small sampling of what you will find inside with you. Because I wanted you to pick up your own copy and then come back and leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of the story and why.
About:
This hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestselling poetry book I’m Just No Good at Rhyming is full of surprising twists of wit and wordplay that will have readers rolling on the floor laughing!
“Highly recommended, it gets 5 stars and 8 moons and a chef’s kiss and a tip of the hat and a jump in the lake from me.”—Bob Odenkirk, award-winning actor, writer, and comedian
I’m Just No Good at Rhyming is this Century’s most acclaimed comedic poetry collection so far, described as “a worthy heir to Silverstein, Seuss, and even Ogden Nash” (PublishersWeekly), “wildly imaginative…inspired and inspiring” (Kirkus), and as “everything a book for kids should be” (B.J. Novak). Now, Chris Harris delivers all that and more with dazzling new heights of creativity, kooky conundrums, witty wordsmithing, and of course, wacky laugh-out-loud fun!
There’s a whole new cast of characters to meet, from the Nail-Clipping Fairy (who delivers teeth at night), to Orloc the Destroyer (who can be defeated only by his mommy), to the Elderly Caveman (who complains about the younger generation obsessed with playing with fire). There are more mind-bending verbal and visual riddles, plus there’s plenty of hilarious hijinks hiding around every corner, whether it’s a Buffalo that escapes one poem and roams through others or a meteor threatening to land on the book and obliterate everything. There’s even a mini book-within-a-book! In between it all, cartoonist Andrea Tsurumi’s diverse range of exuberant people, creatures, and anthropomorphic objects ripple through the pages with playful energy.
About the Author: Chris Harris
Chris Harris is a writer and executive producer for How I Met Your Mother and The Great Indoors, and a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. His pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. He was also the author of the anti-travel guide Don’t Go Europe! He lives in Los Angeles.
He loves peppermint stick Ice Cream and, when he’s not too full, just-a little-bit-more-Peppermint-stick-Ice-Cream-but-don’t-tell-anyone. He’s a funny guy, as you can tell from his children’s poetry collection,I’m Just No Good at Rhyming. In his spare time, he gets older.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David cates
