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Summary
Miss Malarkey is leaving the building.
A field trip is the highlight of every school year. Students everywhere look forward to this break from the regular class routine.
Miss Malarkey has never been in charge of running a class trip before. Bringing her students to the Science Center is a real adventure. The class really digs the dinosaur exhibit. Exploring the electricity room is a hair-raising experience for Miss Malarkey. And the phrase "stick it in your ear" takes on new meaning in the human body display. But the most important thing Miss Malarkey and her students learn on the trip is to expect the unexpected as they experience a day full of surprises and discoveries
Author Notes
Judy Finchler wrote Testing Miss Malarkey, Miss Malarkey Won't Be in Today, and Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10 , and she co-wrote You're a Good Sport, Miss Malarkey with Kevin O'Malley. She is an elementary school teacher and librarian in Parsippany, New Jersey.
KEVIN O'MALLEY is the co-author and illustrator of the popular Miss Malarkey series as well as the award-winning Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude and the national bestseller Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share . He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.booksbyomalley.com
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-This hapless teacher and her class were first introduced in Testing Miss Malarkey (Walker, 2000). In this, the fifth book, they are off to the science center. There is very little in terms of story here, and less in the way of character development. Finchler and O'Malley follow the students as they bury one another in the fossil pit or abuse the displays while Miss Malarkey's headache steadily worsens and she becomes woozy during the 3-D movie. Parents fare no better here than in the other titles in this series, as one chaperone gets lost in the rain-forest room and another ignores the kids and yaks on her cell phone. O'Malley's vivid watercolor-and-pencil illustrations are nicely executed, but the humor of out-of-control, poorly supervised children wears thin quickly if it was ever funny in the first place.-Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
In her fifth book, Miss Malarkey takes her class on a science center field trip. They don+t exactly have the scientific experience she+d hoped+instead they learn that there are ""cool hair dryers in the bathroom"" and ""gift shops aren+t cheap."" Though a lot of the humor+especially in O+Malley+s illustrations+is directed toward adults, children will enjoy the familiar characters and story line. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Fledgling teacher Miss Malarkey's real education continues in another spot-on slice of school life. Here, she leads her first field trip--to a "hands-on" science center where one child immediately gets his arm caught in a giant ear, another tries to bury a third at the "Dig Your Own" dino exhibit, others wander unchecked by oblivious chaperones into the gift shop or through an "Authorized Personnel Only" door, and similar minor but stress-inducing mishaps. O'Malley chronicles it all in bright, good-humored scenes unencumbered by extraneous background detail, and the trip turns out to be more or less fun for all--including the frazzled teacher, who finds a care package from fellow educators on her desk in a heartwarming final scene. (Picture book. 7-9) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
K-Gr. 2. That perennial class favorite, the field trip, is the fodder for the fifth Miss Malarkey series offering. This time the teacher is taking her class to the Science Center, where unruliness rules the day: Jake's arm becomes stuck in a giant ear; Allan buries Zachary in the archeological dig; and food fights are the norm in the cafeteria. Kids old enough to have gone on field trips will recognize the holiday spirit that goes along for the ride, but the illustrations miss opportunities by concentrating on the rather homely kids instead of bringing in much of the ambience of the Science Center. O'Malley's primarily white backgrounds could have been considerably enlivened with details that reflected the feel of a museum--or even the cafeteria. There are some laughs, however, and this will work as a read-aloud before or after a trip. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2004 Booklist