Book Write Up #2: Book #9 (Chapter Book)

Author: Nancy Krulik
Title: Katie Kazoo Switcheroo (Going Batty)
Illustrator: John & Wendy
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Young Adults
Theme: You don't know what it is like unless you live in the shoes of someone else.
Primary and Secondary Characters: Katie and her best friend Suzanne
Date of Publication: 2009
Publishing Company: Grosset & Dunlap

This book is about Katie and her friends. Her best friend is Suzanne. Katie and Suzanne love to hang upside down and play a lot. Katie's teacher Mr. G, is a very hands on teacher. In teaching about nocturnal animals he turns off all the lights in the classroom. The kids come in the room and it is dark. Then Mr. G jumps out of the closet as a rat and scares all the kids. He then talks to the kids about nocturnal animals, and the kids love it. He tells the kids that they are going to go to the zoo, to see nocturnal animals. Katie is a little weirded out about this, because there are times when a gust of wind comes and turns her into something else. She once was an Italian man and a bird. She lives in their shoes for awhile, so she is scared that the gust of wind will turn her into a nocturnal animal, because she thinks they are kinda nasty. The day at the zoo Katie gets lost, and the gust of wind comes and turns her into a bat. She realizes that she has furry skin and bat hooves. The longer she is a bat she realizes that bats are smart and fast. Her best friend then comes in the bat cave and talks badly about bats, this hurts Katie's feelings. When Katie turns back into herself she goes back to school the next day, and tells the kids all about bats.

When I become a teacher I can use this book in teaching my students that they cannot judge things from their outside appearance. They need to see the good qualities in all things.