This funny picture book from Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons, and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss is a delight for kids, with its colorful illustrations and gentle comeuppance for a well-meaning principal who learns that learning outside of school can be just as important as being in school.

Tillie goes to a fine, fine school where kids learn about dinosaurs, build pyramids, and paint portraits. When her principal decides to call all the students and teachers together for an announcement, no one could have predicted he would say that there will be school on Saturdays! Soon everyone goes to school on Sundays, holidays, and even the summer. He loves school so much that he forgets to give anyone time off!

Author: Sharon Creech
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 07/24/2001
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 11.24h x 9.32w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780060277369
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 53195 / Fine, Fine School


Award: 2004 California Young Reader Medal Winner - Primary
Award: 2005 Monarch Award Nominee - Grades K-3
Award: 2002 Irma S. & James H. Black Award Honor Book - Children's Literature


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 06/15/2001 pg. 862
Ingram Children's Advance 07/01/2001 pg. 9
BookPage 08/01/2001 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2001 pg. 75
School Library Journal 08/01/2001 pg. 144
Booklist 08/01/2001 pg. 2116
New York Times 01/20/2002 pg. 14
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 39 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2002 pg. 39 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Bliss, Harry: -

New York Times bestselling artist Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine. He is the author and illustrator of Bailey and Luke on the Loose and the illustrator of A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech, Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig, Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, and Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo. His self-titled single panel gag cartoon Bliss appears in newspapers internationally. He lives in New Hampshire. You can visit him online at www.harrybliss.com.

Creech, Sharon: -

Sharon Creech has written twenty-one books for young people and is published in over twenty languages. Her books have received awards in both the U.S. and abroad, including the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Honor for The Wanderer, and Great Britain's Carnegie Medal for Ruby Holler.

Before beginning her writing career, Sharon Creech taught English for fifteen years in England and Switzerland. She and her husband now live in Maine, "lured there by our grandchildren," Creech says.

www.sharoncreech.com