The Time Warp Trio travels back in time to 1877 Brooklyn. As they travel through their neighborhood they see how things were then. It bring the history to life for the reader when being seen by a similar perspective.
It's a good suppliment to the industrial revolution or inventors/inventions. An activity to go along with this book would be for the students to design their own inventions. ( )

For this reading log I read The Time Warp Trio: Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?, by Jon Scieszka. I definitely enjoyed this story for many reasons. The message of this series is to provide many different historical backgrounds, time periods, and experiences in order to pass this knowledge to children in a fun and hilarious way.

Firstly, this story is engaging to its readers and utilizes several strategies to achieve this. There are illustrations that can be found everywhere in this book. This is a chapter book, and I was definitely pleasantly surprised to see how many illustrations were included. At some points, they are small, but at others, they take up an entire page. At the very end on page 71, we see the trio going back to their original time period instead of 1877 Brooklyn, NY. There is a full page of illustration to help the reader visualize the scene. They overall help convey what is happening in the story and provides extra clarification.

Furthermore, when the trio arrive in the new time period, they provide lots of helpful knowledge that shows the reader the information and book is accurate to the time it is portraying. One character named Samza says, “The towers were finished by 1876. All the cables were done by 1878. So we are somewhere between those two dates.” This character was very into research and information, and helps set up the accurate time period through a realistic and descriptive manner.

Finally, this story includes the trio, who are 3 boys, and their 3 great-granddaughters they met in a previous book in the series. This creates a very large potential audience, as kids like to read about characters similar to themselves. Both the male and female characters create hysterical dialogue, alone and together, which adds a lot to the story. Towards the middle of the story, Sam and Samza are having a small argument, which ends up being humorous as you read it. They go back and forth saying things like “You said it, I don’t know, you should know, I don’t, get lost, we’re going to be!” These types of little arguments definitely happen amongst boys and girls their age, so it becomes engaging and relatable to the readers. ( )

Jon Scieszka is the Author of the book Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge. He was a teacher at a school in New York. Scieszka is a teacher, a writer, a lifeguard and a painter. The book begins with Fred, Joe and Sam on top of a building. As they walk towards the other end of the building they discover that the building is not completely finished. Throughout the book the three boys try to save inventions like the light bulb and the phonography. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest of imagination.
I hope to one day have the collection of these books sitting in my class room library. This book is one of the best books ive read. I wish they would come up with more but they havent yet. When i grow up i hope that i can make books like these ones.

Jon Scieszka is the Author of the book Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge. He was a teacher at a school in New York. Scieszka is a teacher, a writer, a lifeguard and a painter. The book begins with Fred, Joe and Sam on top of a building. As they walk towards the other end of the building they discover that the building is not completely finished. Throughout the book the three boys try to save inventions like the light bulb and the phonography. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest of imagination.
I hope to one day have the collection of these books sitting in my class room library. This book is one of the best books ive read. I wish they would come up with more but they havent yet. When i grow up i hope that i can make books like these ones.

Jon Scieszka is the Author of the book Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge. He was a teacher at a school in New York. Scieszka is a teacher, a writer, a lifeguard and a painter. The book begins with Fred, Joe and Sam on top of a building. As they walk towards the other end of the building they discover that the building is not completely finished. Throughout the book the three boys try to save inventions like the light bulb and the phonography. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest of imagination.
I hope to one day have the collection of these books sitting in my class room library. This book is one of the best books ive read. I wish they would come up with more but they havent yet. When i grow up i hope that i can make books like these ones.