Curtis and Scieszka: Funny Summer Stories
Summer memories are the best memories. Something about all the free time and nice weather just seems to make hilarious and memorable things happen. I had the chance to meet two very funny authors recently. We talked about their books, summer reading, and I asked them for their most memorable summer experiences.
Jon Scieszka, the author of the Time Warp trio series, The Stinky Cheese Man, and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, describes a memorable summer experience involving a cat, a pecan nut bar, and 5 brothers barfing in the car! If you have read his autobiographical book, Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka, then you already know this story, but it's still funny to hear him tell it! (If you haven't read Knucklehead, it's HILARIOUS! You should check it out.)
Christopher Paul Curtis, author of Bud, Not Buddy, Elijah of Buxton, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, had me cracking up (you can actually hear me laughing in the video) when he described how collecting beetles for his beetle aquarium landed him with 4 broken fingers. Yeah, it sounds painful and I shouldn't laugh, but getting your lips stuck to a frozen car mirror sounds painful too and you know you laughed at THAT scene in The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963!
Now it's your turn. Can you top either of these summer stories? What is YOUR favorite summer memory so far? Let us know in the Comments.
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I love the stinky cheese man!!!I saw a play of it last March:)
Comment #1 | Posted by: s.snape2000 on July 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Hmm.....this year we went to Hawaii? The beaches had strong currents and once I got my face smushed against the sand in the water.
Comment #2 | Posted by: GNOletsgo1 on July 19, 2010 at 04:27 PM
The time I tripped, and fell off the moon
Comment #3 | Posted by: qwerty0987654321 on July 19, 2010 at 07:19 PM
have you ever shown your face on stacks?!? just wondering!
Comment #4 | Posted by: stuffedbear3 on July 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM
My favorite summer memory so far is when my dad took me and my family to the lake and when we were on the boat we rented I almost caught a HUGE hybrid striper but he got away when it was almost on the boat. It also just about weaved a basket with the lines under the boat! My dad is also a bass fisherman so even though our guide told him not to yank the rod back to set the hook, he keps on doing it, and ripped holes in tons of fishes lips!
Comment #5 | Posted by: Purplepancakes98 on July 19, 2010 at 11:42 PM
i think Christopher Paul Curtis's in the funniest and my favorite memory.
Comment #6 | Posted by: soccermvp on July 20, 2010 at 08:03 AM
love jon scieszka's books! I've read them all and they are awesome! So far my favorite summer memory was having a conversation about the pros and cons of tomatoes with 8 other people from my family.
Comment #7 | Posted by: gylfie97 on July 20, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Wow Jon Scieszka had a hilarious summer memory! I love his books! Don't you?
Comment #8 | Posted by: specialk10 on July 20, 2010 at 02:40 PM
my favorite summer was when
I went to Louisiana to visit my family.
Comment #9 | Posted by: anthony1999 on July 20, 2010 at 02:55 PM
He is so weird
Comment #10 | Posted by: cocopuffsfalls on July 22, 2010 at 02:49 PM
I love to read Bud, not Buddy!!!!!!!=)
Comment #11 | Posted by: MooseTraxx16 on July 29, 2010 at 05:49 PM
When my dad and sister and I were at Universal Studios and Spiderman vaulted out of a store, said hi to us, and ran away. Then a few minutes later he ran back. XD
Comment #12 | Posted by: Firegirl47 on July 30, 2010 at 08:59 PM
I REMEMBER READING STINKY CHEESE MAN, AND IT WAS SO FUNNY.
Comment #13 | Posted by: business woman on July 31, 2010 at 01:01 PM
this summer at the mall, i threw a coin into one of the huge fountains and fell flat on my face in front of a bunch of strangers and kids into the fountain! i felt like ramona when she fell through the ceiling!
Comment #14 | Posted by: Kyndall on August 02, 2010 at 08:52 AM
haha lol love reding bud not buddy <3
Comment #15 | Posted by: hce98 on August 03, 2010 at 09:27 PM
I guess my funiest summer memory was when my dad tried out our slip n' slide. He rolled off our yard, and all the nieghbors saw a thirty year old man with swim trunks, sliding off his yard.
Comment #16 | Posted by: Marina on August 07, 2010 at 09:15 PM
my funniest memory is when i went to summer camp and i slipped and fell in the mud=( It was so embarassing!!!!!!!!!
Comment #17 | Posted by: crazylion on August 13, 2010 at 06:41 PM
My favorite vacation is when I went to MEXICO!
100%MEXICAN(PROUD OF IT)
Comment #18 | Posted by: hawklolsome2 on May 18, 2012 at 05:06 PM
Well,last year I went to Vietnam to visit my aunt and grandmother.We went to the beach.I don't know how to swim but when I went in the water I got some water in my nose (this part might be gross while it might be funny to other people) well,my dad told me that I had something poking out of my nose and I got really embarrassed...
Comment #19 | Posted by: werewolfcat5 on June 18, 2012 at 09:28 AM