Stuck

This book is great for a vocabulary lesson. It has a lot of tier II words. I would read this book to second graders. It is about a boy who gets his toys stuck in a tree. In order to get his other toys down, he continues to throw toys up at the tree. It is a good book for predicting what will happen

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Funny! I love the little tiny saw that does the trick but in an unexpected way!

What a funny book! I love it! Most kids have gotten something stuck up in a tree, or on a roof, and can easily relate to this book. I can imagine young readers trying to wrap their minds around such ridiculous things stuck up in a tree. Great read-aloud! Also, issues of problem solving can be

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discussed with this book.
Ages: 3-7 (B&N)

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A funny story of a boy named Floyd who once his kite gets stuck on a tree he tries even the impossible to get it unstuck. Children can engage in a discussion about common sense or put themselves in the situation of the character.

cute book about a boy that gets his kite stuck in a tree and tries throwing everything in the tree to knock the kite out. in the end he gets his kite but leaves he tree full of everything you can think of. Its a funny story that when you read it you will find your self laughing. Good book that i

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could somewhat relate to.

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I thought this was a great book. It would be really great for a read aloud book for first or second graders where the teacher could ask them to predict what comes next. It's a cute story as well!

I enjoyed "Stuck" by author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers. I liked the simple illustrations that Jeffers used that emphasize only the young boy , the tree his kite is stuck in and all the items he continues to throw at the tree, unsuccessfully, in order to get the kite out of the tree. As I read, I

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thought it was funny that Jeffers would intentionally introduce items that we assume are going to be used in a more traditional manner only to find that once again the boy chooses to toss more problems at the tree. A great example of this is the fire engine and crew who could simply climb up and remove the kite, but as we turn the page, we find that once again the boy has decided to toss them at the tree in another failing attempt to remove it. I enjoyed the childlike qualities of Jeffer's illustrations and the handwritten text, which gave the story the feeling of voice, helping me to imagine someone re-telling their account of Floyd's ridiculous attempts to resolve his issue. The theme of this book is problem solving and emphasizes looking for resolutions to problems beyond what caused our issue in the first place.

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DARLING BOOK!
MUST SEE!
CUTE! CUTE! CUTE!

Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree...and "it wouldn't come unstuck."

Not knowing what else to do he throws his shoe up to try to get the kite down...

Only to have his shoe get stuck too!

Floyd throws thing after thing up into the tree

Read to find out what gets

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stuck in the tree and in what order...

And to see if the kite ever does come down :)

LOVED IT!

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A boy gets his kite stuck in a tree, rapidly followed by many other improbable things. Great for making predictions.

A humorous story that young children will enjoy. After Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he begins to throw ALL sorts of things into the tree to get it out. Of course the things he throws in the tree get progressively stranger and stranger. Aimed for the pre-K to 1st grade crowd.

I enjoyed reading this book. Oliver Jeffers' humor reaches all ages. I thought the book was eye-catching and intriguing. Jeffers portrayed the plot in a well-organized manner. In this particular book there are multiple additions throughout. Floyd first gets his kite stuck in a tree and in order to

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get his kite unstuck he tosses other things in the tree. Unfortunately, more and more things get stuck in the tree. In the first few pages, Floyd gets his kite, shoes, cat, ladder, paint, duck, chair, and friend's bicycle all stuck in the tree. No matter what he throws up in the tree, it gets stuck. As a writer, Jeffers needs to be able to organize this plot well so that the items don't seem jumbled together or in complete chaos. Although multiple things get stuck in the tree, Jeffers explains it in an orderly way, describing each and every item and how, without a doubt, everything gets stuck. Similar to "The Heart and the Bottle," I enjoyed the illustrations that Jeffers creates. This story is dependent on the illustrations in many aspects. Jeffers explains every item that Floyd throws up into the tree. The visuals on each page enhance the story, allowing readers to get a clear understanding of the scene being described. His illustrations also add to the humorous aspect of his book. The expressions on Floyd's face give readers a better idea of how Floyd is feeling at the time and the colors bring to life the illustrations. The style of Jeffers' illustrations fits perfectly with the written text. For example, at the end of the book Floyd finally thinks of getting a saw. Readers expect the saw to be big and that Floyd will cut down the tree. Nevertheless, he pulls out a tiny saw and throws it up at the tree. The tree can no longer hold any more objects and the kite finally gets unstuck. I think that the main idea or message of this story is focused on bringing humor to children's books. It's also a simple and fun read for young children.

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Stuck is a story about a boy trying to rescue his stuck in a tree kite. He thinks hard and in order to accomplish his mission, the big throws just about anything, from a cat to a whale. It is a very cute story about perseverance and imagination. A great story for the lower grades where tons of

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predictions could be made since the reader can't even imagine what the boy will throw next in order to rescue his kite.

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I did not enjoy "Stuck", the central message of which was for one to be determined in one’s efforts to problem-solve. The problem solver in this story was Floyd, a young boy whose kite got stuck in a tree, as did everything thereafter that he threw up into the tree in order to retrieve the kite.

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One aspect of the story I did enjoy was the illustrations, which fit the whimsical and child-like nature that it exuded. What I disliked about the book was its lack of a plot, as well as its repetitive nature. There was no real rhyme or reason to the story other than a young boy succeeding in getting various objects and animals stuck in a tree, which leads me to believe that the story was purely written to amuse young children. The book was also predictable in nature, which I understand is preferable to young readers, but is not to me as an older reader. I do feel as though this book will appeal to young children’s senses of imagination as well as their creativity, which is a positive aspect of the story. Overall, while the book might be one that might appeal to young children in terms of its humor, it is not one of which I was particularly fond.

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My opinion of the short story Stuck was that it was a very pointless book, and while the pictures related well to the story, it was repetitive and boring, and it was completely unrealistic. The only real lesson to learn is about determination and never giving up. The boy gets his kite stuck up in a

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tree in the backyard and begins throwing objects into the tree to try and knock the other objects down. His determination to get his kite back leads to him throwing nearly every object he can get his hands on up into the tree. The boy threw a chair, a duck, a cat, a bicycle, a sick, a door, a house, a fire engine, fire fighters, a milk man, a car, an orangutan, a small boat, a big boat, a rhinoceros, a long-distance truck, a lighthouse, a whale, and the list goes on and on. The boy continues to throw things until his perseverance pays off and he throws a saw into the tree, and the kite falls down because the tree is full.
The story is very unrealistic and shows some very unsafe activities for a child to be doing, let alone be doing while without an adult around. The story does an excellent job at show that if you don’t give up, eventually you will succeed in what you are trying to do.

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This is such a fun and playful book full of imagination! It is about a little boy who's kite gets stuck up in a tree and he uses everything he can think of to try and get it down. He throws a cat, a ladder, even a whale, but everything just gets stuck in that tree! In the end he gives up and goes

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to bed, with all those things, animals, and people still stuck. The childlike illustrations and typography add the the childlike feel and sense of suspended reality. I think adults and children alike will love this book and be captured by it's playful humor.

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I love this book. It's a funny book about a kid getting his things kite etc stuck in a tree. It encourages creative critical thinking.

Curricular connections- using it for a creative lesson on how you think Floyd could've got unstuck. Writing funny stories.

This modern fantasy book tells the story of how a boy gets everything stuck in a tree. He gets his favorite kite gets stuck in the tree, so he threw his favorite shoe into the tree. He then proceeded to throw many things to try and get them down such as a boat, a sink, a whale or a duck. The fire

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department went up into the tree, but they got stuck too. However, his kite fell down and he went to bed happily, forgetting about everything else that was stuck in the tree.

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I love the imagination and creativity of Oliver Jeffers. The boy is in a predicament, and kind of digs himself a larger hole than he needed to.

Lovely and playful illustrations to complement a silly text -- well done!

genre: modern fantasy
This is fun book about a boy who gets many different things stuck in a tree. He keeps trying to get his stuff down from the tree so he keeps throwing different objects into the tree. It is clever plot because you do not know what he is going to get stuck in the tree next.
age

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group: k-2nd.

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This modern fantasy starts out with a boy who gets his kite stuck in a tree. He begins to throw other things at the kite to try and get it down, but nothing seems to work. As the day goes on, the items he throws get bigger and bigger, and all of them get stuck! Eventually, there is no room left in

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the tree, and his kite falls down. He plays with his kite for the rest of the day, and then goes to sleep, leaving everything he threw still in the tree.

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Stuck is a hilarious book about a boy named Floyd and his journey to get his kite unstuck from the tree. Throughout his journey he continues to throw more and more objects up in the tree to get his kite out. One object after another join the kite in being stuck. It progresses to the point where he

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is throwing everything he can think of into the tree, including a ladder and even firemen! At the end he is able to throw one last thing into the tree that was full, and due to the lack of space, his kite became unstuck. The rest of the objects however, remain in the tree when he goes to bed.

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I watched a reading of this on youtube. It is what it is - if you appreciate the absurd, if you're as self-centered as a normal child and perhaps could use a little lesson in empathy, you'll probably bust a gut over this.

When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he throws his shoe up to dislodge it, only to find that the shoe gets stuck as well. Soon his other shoe, a cat, a ladder, and a succession of ever-larger and ever more absurd objects and creatures are stuck in the three, as Floyd chucks them at the problem.

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When the tree is laden with everything from a blue whale to a firetruck (complete with firefighters), his kite is finally freed, and Floyd runs off to play. After a full day, he goes to bed, haunted by the feeling that there is something he has forgotten...

Author/artist Oliver Jeffers delivers an absurdly hilarious madcap romp in Stuck, one in which the zany illustrations are more than a match for the narrative hi-jinks. The surreal humor here rests not just upon Floyd's unorthodox manner of confronting his problem, but also upon the speech-bubble comments of the people who are dragged into his messy solution, and stranded in the treetop. The artwork is quirky and appealing, in the inimitable Jeffers way that I find difficult to describe, and that, despite not necessarily being to my taste aesthetically, always works just right with the story, and keeps me amused. The scene in which whale, lighthouse, and ship are all sticking up from the tree won a particularly appreciative chuckle. Recommended to all Oliver Jeffers fans, and to anyone looking for picture-books with a somewhat surreal silliness.

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