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Ellie McSnelly and Carrie O'Toole were running and laughing-their first day of school was today! And they wondered just what was in store.
Would this be a good year?
Would school be a bore?
Everyone remembers feeling excited and nervous each fall on the first day of school. It's no different for Ellie McSnelly and Carrie O'Toole. But this year, there's not only a new teacher to meet, but a brand new kid as well. Lazlo S. Gasky doesn't look or speak quite like the other kids, and no one is sure what to make of him. In fact, they respond to his arrival at Brookhaven School by taunting and teasing him. But when Ellie realizes how tough it is for Lazlo, she reaches out, and after school one day they share an afternoon of soccer, strudel, and chess. Besides making a new friend, she and Lazlo teach their classmates an important lesson-one that isn't in their schoolbooks-about accepting people who are different...and in getting to know Lazlo, the kids learn that people aren't that different from each other after all.
From one of America's most respected journalists, The Brand New Kid is a heartwarming story about tolerance and the need to give others a chance that will entertain and inspire children and adults alike.
- Sales Rank: #141925 in Books
- Color: Black
- Brand: Doubleday
- Published on: 2000-10-10
- Released on: 2000-10-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.30" h x .33" w x 8.31" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 32 pages
Amazon.com Review
On Ellie and Carrie's first day of second grade there's a brand new kid in the class. But when the teacher asks her students to welcome the ultrablond, blue-eyed, pink-lipped, loud-voiced, accent-sporting Lazlo S. Gasky to Brookhaven School, they all mock him instead: "Too different and strange to fit in they all feared." Lazlo grows unhappier by the minute, as he is ostracized and taunted by his classmates. One day, however, when Ellie sees his sad-looking mother walking forlornly toward her car ("Her son's having trouble, she might pull him out, / this school may be wrong for him, she's full of doubt"), things begin to look up for Lazlo. At that moment Ellie begins to wonder what it must be like to be a new kid, feeling so "different and strange," and she decides to take steps to get to know him, even at the risk of facing her friends' ridicule. ("At school the next day the kids stopped her and said, / 'You were walking with Lazlo, are you sick in the head?' / Ellie paused and replied, 'Now I know him, you see, / Lazlo isn't that different from you and from me.'"
NBC News' Today coanchor Katie Couric's rhyming book provides a healthy approach to treating people who may be perceived as different, and works well as a springboard to discussion. Though the suddenness of Ellie's turnaround in attitude seems a bit unnatural and the rhymes are often forced ("They arrived at his door greeted by his French poodle / and Mrs. Gasky was there with a plate of warm strudel!"), the message of The Brand New Kid will certainly not be lost on children. As Couric writes in her introduction, "It sometimes takes courage, but I hope this story will inspire all of us to reach out and make someone feel a little less scared and a little less lonely." Hear, hear. Caldecott Honor artist Marjorie Priceman's watercolor spreads are positively delightful, washing warmly over the pages in a free, buoyant style. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
From Publishers Weekly
Couric, co-host of NBC's Today show, pens an energetic though uneven picture book about tolerance. When second grader Lazlo S. Gasky, who speaks and looks different from everyone else, arrives at Brookhaven School, the other kids are quick to both tease and alienate him. Some weeks later, when Ellie McSnelly sees Lazlo's tearful mother, the girl makes kind overtures to him that Lazlo happily returns many times over. Ellie soon inspires others to extend a hand in friendship. Couric's laudable message of inclusion comes through. Unfortunately, however, the narrative's rhyming-couplets format results in forced, sometimes ungrammatical, phrasing (e.g., "They arrived at his door greeted by his French poodle/ and Mrs. Gasky was there with a plate of warm strudel!" and "He's terrific at chess, and his Mom's really sweet./ Playing soccer the guy doesn't have two left feet"). In what appears to be a hole in the plot, Ellie's best friend, Carrie, from whom she is initially inseparable, all but disappears for much of the proceedings. Priceman (Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin) compensates by picturing Carrie even when she's absent from the text. Using softer lines and more muted hues than usual, the artist captures a full gamut of emotion, particularly in the crabby faces of taunting classmates and a beaming portrait of Lazlo at the moment he makes his first real friend. Ages 3-8. (Oct.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
K-Gr 2-When Lazlo S. Gasky, the new kid in town, goes to school, he is teased, left out of games, and even tripped while carrying his lunch tray. It's not until one of his classmates sees his mother crying that she considers being nice to Lazlo. After a day of playing chess and eating strudel together, Ellie sticks up for him at school. The rhyming text, although at times awkward as well as faulty in cadence, helps keep the tone light. However, it also raises some major concerns, mainly the lack of adult intervention. Where are the adults when Lazlo is being maligned? Why does "the best teacher by far in the whole second grade" single out the new student by drawing attention to his "different" name? Where's the gym teacher or the lunch monitor when Lazlo is being mistreated? And how is it that a student is privy to Mrs. Gasky's concerns? "Her son's having trouble, she might pull him out,/this school may be wrong for him, she's full of doubt." Pen-and-ink and watercolor art helps to create distinct and sympathetic characters. Readers have only to see the transformation of Lazlo's face as he smiles to know how much it means to him to have a friend. The looseness of the drawings, the accomplished use of texture, and the white of the page enhance but don't entirely compensate for this flawed yet sincere title.-Martha Topol, Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Get a grip, reviewers! This is a great work!
By Andie
I am almost embarrassed about the schlock that passes for "reviews" for this book! Never have I seen so many people tear apart an author, a theme, the handling of the theme, the reason for a book -- as this! The book wasn't written to obtain a Pulitzer Prize, folks! The book was written for the clear and much needed purpose of revealing what it feels like to be ostracized as a child in school.... This book, wisely written from the perspective of an otherwise "good" kid, one most kids could identify with, is insightful in handling a nuance in bullying -- that not all bullying behavior is done by the identified class "bully."
Why Ms Couric's motives in writing a children's book is even a thing, is a mystery to me. Why, at the very least, would she not be given the benefit of a benign if not charitable motivation: she saw a need for kids to hear about the agony of being different in the intolerant world of grade school children, she gives a nod to the private hell of parents sending their off on a school bus to face that world, she paints the sadness of feeling more alone than ever when surrounded by kids.... and then the capacity in all of us to scratch the surface and embrace the differences as well as the similarities in us all.
I loved this book. My son, who is now 17, can you this story and even some of the lines --we read it so many times when he was a child.
I encourage you to buy or borrow this book and share it with a child ...ask them what they think. At the very least start a discussion about who in their class is picked on or made fun of? Who eats lunch alone? Who is most disliked and why? Every child has a story ..which means every class has a Lazlo for one reason or another and how very very sad that is... If this book saves just one -- what a gift it is!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Lumbering
By LonestarReader
I am trying to remember why Couric went into the kids' book business. Wasn't the day job working out Katie?
As I picked up the book from a display of "back to school" books it was not displeasing to look at. Although the illustrations are working hard, they cannot rescue this book. The storyline was very predictable, heavy handed and pedantic. The rhyming verse just saws away and lumbers along in a forced and sing-song fashion.
"His name is a different one, Lazlo S. Gasky. He's new to our school and the town of Delasky."
Wow, how about that. The kid's last name happens to rhyme with the name of the town. Golly.
To go on any further would be cruel. Couric and other lesser lights are under the impression that a tale must be moralistic in order to appeal or impress children. I suppose it does impress unsuspecting parents and grandparents who will misguidedly but with the best of intentions, purchase this book.
If you are looking for a REALLY good book with this theme, go get "Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon" by Patty Lovell with divine illustrations by David Catrow.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Clunky rhymes almost redeemed by delightful illustrations
By J. Roberts
Katie Couric's theme is familiar enough. A young person endures the travails of being the outsider until they are taken into the fold of the group who once persecuted them. This theme, though, has received far better treatment by real authors.
Couric's "celebness" may be bona fide but her writing is not. "The Brand New Kid" is written in verse that stumbles so often that it robs the book of playfulness and flow. What's more, her protaganist is flat and uninteresting. He is persecuted but, unfortunately, that is about all he is. Throughout his torments, Couric's "new kid" remains insipid, displaying none of the pluck or defiance which we associate with our favourite children's book characters. Any sympathy we feel for him stems only from Marjorie Priceman's touching illustrations.
More interesting than the book itself is the reason why it was allowed to become a best-seller. Besides the hype NBC bestowed on its network darling, behemoth Barnes & Noble gave it prominent display and high praise nationwide in each of their stores. Suspiciously, B&N has a major marketing role on NBC's web-site. Something's rotten in Denmark...
Couric's efforts in writing this mini-morality play were no doubt sincere. Nevertheless, this book's only claim to prominence comes from its author's celebrity status. Would that these celebrity egoes stop invading the world of children's books, and instead make room for a new generation's EB White or Roald Dahl.
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