Day 5: A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup

I loved this book! It is funny and quirky and just the right amount of weird. The story follows Mr. Cheeseman and his three, attractive polite and relatively odor-free children, a sock puppet named Steve, and their psychic hairless dog. Mr. Cheeseman and his late wife created the most amazing and powerful invention the world has ever seen. Mrs. Cheeseman died because the family refused to give it to the top secret government agents, international superspies, one of whom happens to be a chimp, or corporate villains. Now the family is on the run from town to town, changing their names trying to stay one step ahead of those evil characters. Along the way they meet a crazy circus troupe, a cowboy singing poet, a ghost and a bunch of unusual helpful people. Mr. Cheeseman hopes that he will be able to get his powerful device working so he can find a way to save his wife. This is a funny book, one of my favorites so far this summer. I plan to check out the next book in the series, Another Whole Nother Story. A Whole Nother Story would make a great read aloud for third and fourth grade. I would recommend this to kids who love The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch.