Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (1954 - present) is a popular, award winning children's author. He has written over 21 fiction and educational books for children. Sachar was a teacher for several years and used this experience and people he knew as inspiration for many of his books. He is most well-known for his book Holes and the Wayside School series. Sachar's book Holes won a Newbery Medal and was made into a movie a few years ago. It was a very popular and loved movie also. The Wayside School series was also made into an animated tv show in 2006.
I read the Wayside School series when I was a kid and I absolutely enjoyed every minute of the books. They are hilarious and very nonsensical. Wayside School was orininally intended to be built as a one-story building with 30 classrooms. Instead, it was accidently built sideways as 30 stories with one classroom on each floor. The students and teachers face unusual but very humerous adventures everyday at Wayside School.
I read the book Holes only after seeing the preview for the movie coming out. I never read it as a child, but I don't think I would have fully appreciated the irony then. I loved the book simply because it was highly entertaing because of all the irony. The book has an element of magic to it in the way of a curse. The main character Stanley and his family were cursed along time ago. This curse causes events to happen that seem almost magical. This book was very entertaining and I would recommend it to everyone.
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