Snakes! and the Boy Who Was Afraid of Them

by Barry Louis Polisar

Book Overview

In a delightfully subtle way, Polisar promotes self esteem through a character who thinks for himself in this companion book to The Snake Who Was Afraid of People. Afraid of snakes, Lenny has to endure a field trip to the zoo's snake house. He encounters taunts from his bullying classmates and little sympathy from his teacher and guidance counselor, who are pictured increasingly snake-like and menacing until the wickedly funny surprise ending. It's a book about fears that says there's nothing wrong with having them. In fact, there are some things you should be afraid of. Polisar's protagonist is a child who not only thinks for himself against a popular belief-but proves himself right. A delighfully subversive serpent metaphor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938663151
• ISBN13: 9780938663157
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Rainbow Morning Music Alternatives
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7