Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka

With six boys growing up in the Scieszka house in Flint, Michigan, life was never boring. Jon Scieszka, the second oldest, says, "I think it was my dad, finding that his toast tasted like melted green plastic army man, who first asked the question, 'What Knucklehead put an army man in the toaster?'" (The answer wasn't Jon-that time, anyway!) The more Jon Scieszka thought about it, the more he realized, "I get a lot of my ideas from all the strange things that happened to me growing up with five brothers." Index. Afterword. Black-and-white photographs.