Description
Twelve-year-old Tad is a blogger with a plan, in the book Jon Stewart calls "hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school." Tad has an agenda: Survive seventh grade. He also wants to: grow a mustache, get girls to notice him, and do a kickflip on his skateboard. But those are not the main reasons he started a blog. Tad just has a lot of important thoughts he wants to share with the world, like: Here is the first thing I have learned about having a dog in your house: Don't feed them nachos. Not ever. This highly illustrated and hilarious book is by the Emmy(R) Award-winning former head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and is based on a column in MAD Magazine. Through a series of daily entries, readers are treated to a year in Tad's blog that will leave them in stitches. MAD Magazine and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) E.C. Publications. (s14)
About the Author
Tim Carvell is the head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which he has won six Emmys. He has also served as a writer and editor at Fortune, Sports Illustrated/Women, and Entertainment Weekly; his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times, Esquire, Slate and McSweeney's, the Daily Show books America: The Book and Earth: The Book, and the anthologies More Mirth of a Nation, Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans and The McSweeney's Joke Book of Joke Books. He lives in New York with his partner, Tom Keeton.
Reviews
"Hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school." -- Jon Stewart "This book will make you laugh. If you're not into that sort of thing, consider yourself warned." -- Stephen Colbert "Tad is the rapid-fire, pop-culture-referencing, actually-funny stand-up-comic-in-waiting that I wanted to be in middle school!" -- Tom Angleberger
Book Information
ISBN 9780061934384
Author Tim Carvell
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Dimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 13mm
About the Author
Tim Carvell is the head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which he has won six Emmys. He has also served as a writer and editor at Fortune, Sports Illustrated/Women, and Entertainment Weekly; his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times, Esquire, Slate and McSweeney's, the Daily Show books America: The Book and Earth: The Book, and the anthologies More Mirth of a Nation, Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans and The McSweeney's Joke Book of Joke Books. He lives in New York with his partner, Tom Keeton.
Reviews
"Hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school." -- Jon Stewart "This book will make you laugh. If you're not into that sort of thing, consider yourself warned." -- Stephen Colbert "Tad is the rapid-fire, pop-culture-referencing, actually-funny stand-up-comic-in-waiting that I wanted to be in middle school!" -- Tom Angleberger
Book Information
ISBN 9780061934384
Author Tim Carvell
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Dimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 13mm
