A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
A couple of boys have a summer adventure where they learn all about nature (um, sort of), eat banana waffles (of course), play lots of video games (naturally), and miss their parents like crazy... (yea, right).
This Caldecott Honor-winning book is a moving and hilarious celebration of young boys, childhood friendships, and the power of the imagination, where Marla Frazee captures the very essence of summer vacation and what it means to be a kid.
Awards
2009 Caldecott Honor Book
Starred reviews in Kirkus, Bulletin, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award for Picture Book 2008
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 2008
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year 2008
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 2008
An ABC Best Book for Children 2008
Delaware Diamond Award Winner
Reviews
★ “As respectful of kid sensibilities and priorities as it's possible for an adult to achieve.”
–Kirkus, starred review
“In this tongue-in-cheek story, Frazee's text plays straight man to her comic illustrations, and the clever interplay between the two fuels the books humor.”
–Horn Book
★ “... sweetly captures the pleasures of youthful time-wasting in the company of your best friend with a keen understanding that those pleasures are best when they're unsentimental. The result is just realistic enough to be perfect, a grade-schooler's idyllic summer with limited demands for learning and bettering and a whole lot of reveling in kid priorities.”
–Bulletin, starred review
“Frazee offers another riotous story that plays deadpan words off sly, subversive pictures.”
–Booklist