As the School Library Journal opined in a starred review of The Stupids Step Out, “Even youngest listeners will laugh with smug superiority as they follow these good natured dummkopfs from departure to journey’s end.”īut one naysayer-who gave the book a one-star review on Amazon-had this to say: And I don’t imagine most children are in any danger of confusing the Stupids’ aggressively literal naïveté with real-life intellectual deficits.
Making fun of fools may not be officially acceptable these days, but few books are so perfectly calibrated to a child’s sense of humor. Do people still read The Stupids, that classic series of children’s books written by Harry Allard and James Marshall in the seventies and eighties? They must, right? They’re too good.
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