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A review by larrys
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
4.0
As soon as we'd finished this my six year old daughter wanted the next one. Score!
It's nice to see the usual lunch lady ("canteen lady arms" etc) trope subverted. Or perhaps it's because of that old stereotype that a superhero lunch lady is funny. The food used as weapons and gadgets and the food-punny cuss words amused my daughter a lot. She isn't familiar with the American school culture -- Australian kids eat lunch outside on benches, and they don't call relief teachers 'substitutes'. The closest she has to a lunch lady is a 'lunch order lady' and she's never visited a boiler room. (Come to think of it, neither have I -- not even when I was a teacher) but the idea behind this story, that a school can function as some sort of secret headquarters is ingenious and would be even more appreciated by an Aussie kid who's had a bit more exposure to American school stories. And I do love the twist in this one. Wouldn't every teacher kill to be Teacher Of The Year?
It's nice to see the usual lunch lady ("canteen lady arms" etc) trope subverted. Or perhaps it's because of that old stereotype that a superhero lunch lady is funny. The food used as weapons and gadgets and the food-punny cuss words amused my daughter a lot. She isn't familiar with the American school culture -- Australian kids eat lunch outside on benches, and they don't call relief teachers 'substitutes'. The closest she has to a lunch lady is a 'lunch order lady' and she's never visited a boiler room. (Come to think of it, neither have I -- not even when I was a teacher) but the idea behind this story, that a school can function as some sort of secret headquarters is ingenious and would be even more appreciated by an Aussie kid who's had a bit more exposure to American school stories. And I do love the twist in this one. Wouldn't every teacher kill to be Teacher Of The Year?