I Fooled You: Ten Stories of Tricks, Jokes and Switcheroos

I Fooled You: Ten Stories Of Tricks, Jokes and Switcheroos

edited by Johanna Hurwitz (Children's New Books)(J I Fooled You)(2010)
Ages 8-14 years

Children's writer Johanna Hurwitz has collected 10 stories from different authors that revolve around the theme, "I fooled you." Each author approached the theme with different ideas so each story is very different. The first story is actually a poem by Douglas Florian. Megan McDonald wrote a Judy Moody and Stink story, where Judy tries to fool her brother-who in the end fools her. Matthew Holm has a funny graphic story about monkeys that has hardly any words. In the end it's the monkeys who do the fooling needless to say. There is a story about twins by David Adler that touches on more serious topics like fairness. Johanna Hurwitz herself includes a story about a girl who is bothered when she sees one of her classmates consistently wearing her cast off clothing. This story, too, touches on some more serious topics but in a lighthearted way.
The stories are short and easy to read and the cover art is cartoonish so really the stories could be read by younger readers, even though the book is geared toward 8-14 year olds. The cover art would probably not interest a 14 year old, so they would most likely pass this book by.-SC-