Noodleheads See The Future

Arnold, T., Hamilton, M., Weiss, M. Noodleheads see the future. 425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY: Holidayhouse Inc. 44 pages, Picture/Fiction/Inspirational, ISBN 978-0-8234-3673-6

This book contains life's lesson that are mostly found in our everyday circumstances. It uses two main characters named Mac which seems to be so gullible, and that they believe all things to be literal in meaning. For example, when their uncle asks if they could help him build a wall by saying, "can you give me a hand?" However, Mac and Mac interpreted it literally thus grasping the hand trying to cut it, so they can literally give Mac's hand to their uncle. And when their uncle says, "listen up" they literally listened turning their heads up and said that they could only hear birds chirping.

At first when I was reading the book I thought wow! This is funny and kind of silly, but it is true! There are some people in each walks of life that are easy to believe in what others would say, or sometimes would be too foolish to literally understand a statement word by word. This book would help kids understand how to be wise enough and not naïve in life. To understand that some people in life would take advantage of some others weaknesses and they have to be wise enough to at least notice that.




Reviewed by: Farah E.