Add Humor to Your Neighborhood
By Michael Sherman
Klutz, 2011
$12.99, ages 6 and up, 40 pages.
Concrete got the blahs around your block?
Grab some chalk and turn all that wear and tear to your comic advantage.
In this fun twist on an old pastime, Sherman inspires kids to turn ugly concrete into a crack up with a few strokes of chalk.
"Release your inner smart aleck," he encourages before taking readers through a basic how-to and a slew of his own ideas.
The book comes with four fat pieces of chalk and pictures of cracks, walls, steps, rocks even drains dressed up silly.
There's even a section on how to take hopscotch up a notch (literally up a wall) and transform blacktop into track for tricycle test driving.
