Dan Gutman
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Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a vis mere full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Dan Gutman
2 Titles (My Weird School Special: Mr. Jack is a Maniac & Deck the Halls We're Off the Walls) (2014) 68 eksemplarer
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Mr. Corbett Is in Orbit! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 1) (2021) 64 eksemplarer
My Weird School Special: We’re Red, Weird, and Blue! What Can We Do? (My Weird School Special, 7) (2020) 38 eksemplarer
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Get a Grip! We're on a Trip! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 2) (2022) 36 eksemplarer
My Weird School Graphic Novel: Dorks in New York! (My Weird School Graphic Novel, 3) (2023) 13 eksemplarer
My Weird School Christmas 3-Book Box Set: Miss Holly Is Too Jolly!, Dr. Carbles Is Losing His Marbles!, Deck the Halls,… (2015) 4 eksemplarer
Coolest Chapter Books for Kids Sample 4 eksemplarer
My Weird School 8-Volume Boxed Set: 1 thru 8: Miss Daisy Is Crazy / Mr. Klutz Is Nuts / Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy / Ms.… (2005) 3 eksemplarer
My Weird School Summer Reading 3-Book Box Set: Bummer in the Summer!, Mr. Sunny Is Funny!, and Miss Blake Is a Flake! (2020) 3 eksemplarer
My Weird School Daze (Set of 6) Mrs. Dole; Mr. Sunny; Officer Spence; Mrs. Jafee; Dr. Brad; Miss Laney (2010) 2 eksemplarer
My Weird School Series (8): Mr. Louie Is Screwy; Mrs. Yonkers Is Bonkers; Mrs. Macky Is Wacky; Mrs. Kormel Is Not… (2002) 2 eksemplarer
Miss Lanely is Zany 1 eksemplar
Wer stoppt Cyber-Boy? 1 eksemplar
Gefahr aus dem Cyberspace. ( Ab 10 J.). 1 eksemplar
I Didn't Know You Could Do That With a Computer: Practical Unusual and Wonderful Software You Can Buy (1986) 1 eksemplar
My Weird School Back to School 3-Book Box Set: Back to School, Weird Kids Rule!; Miss Child Has Gone Wild!; and Ms.… (2019) 1 eksemplar
Personal Tech: My Computer Runneth Over 1 eksemplar
My Weird School Fast Facts Sports/Geography 1 eksemplar
Daring to Dream 1 eksemplar
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- 1955-10-19
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- Nationalitet
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- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA
Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA - Uddannelse
- Rutgers University
Vailsburg High School - Erhverv
- children's book author
magazine editor
columnist
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- 213
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- Medlemmer
- 43,219
- Popularitet
- #392
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 409
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- 2,147
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- 9
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You can tell the characters are copied-and-pasted and manipulated to do a few poses. I get it. Taking shortcuts as an artist is certainly fine, especially with lengthy projects like graphic novels. I only point it out because it gave the artwork such a stiff feeling.
Anyway, the story’s nonsensical but fun. At one point, AJ and Andrea argue over killing aliens or not. Yeah, the story’s wacky as you would expect. There are a lot of well-meaning facts in the story from climate change to NASA. The running gag” …That’s when the weirdest thing in the history of the world happened” always felt like an awkward transition to me. But I also fully acknowledge I’m not the intended demographic. I’m sure kiddies will have a blast like I used to do with the chapter books as a kid.… (mere)