Holy Enchilada!

I am an elementary teacher who just wrapped up third grade. I read the Hank Zipzer series aloud to my class this year and they all agreed this was their favorite. At one point, we were laughing so loud that a colleage stuck her head in the classroom to make sure we were okay. All of these books kept the kids interested, made them laugh, and got many of them reading them independently after I had read it to them! One of our class catch phrases this year was, in the words of Frankie, "right, and my name is Bernice." Many of my students could relate to Hank's learning challenges and felt better knowing it was "okay" to struggle! Hats off to Henry Winkler and Hank!

This book Holy Enchilada is about this boy named Hank Zipper. He has a learning challange called dyslexia. He is very bad at spelling and math but mostly spelling. In this book Heritage day is coming up. Hank desides to make enchiladas with his two best friends Frankie and Ashley. When it comes time to make the recipe, he could not read the fraction 1/3tbls for chillie powder. So he guesses that it said 3 1/3tbls. Uh oh what is Hank going to do now... I would definataly recommend this book to anyone that loves humor.

Holy Enchilada This book is about a boy named Hank Zipzer. He is not good with fractions so when he goes to put spice in it he puts way too much. When he takes it to school for a foreign day at school his teacher tries it and falls on the floor. Well his name is Hank Zipzer and his hair goes everywhere! The difference is my hair goes strait. Another difference is that I am good at fractions. And another person is Yoshi. He is good at everything. I liked the book and I an reading the next book right now. Yes I would recommend that some one else read it. My favorite part was when his teacher passes out because of the spiciness.

This was the best book I've ever read! Even though I don't have learning disabilities like Hank I have a lot in comon with him. But I still can't believe that Hank got the chance for Yousi to come over! But over all this was my favorite book of all time.This book was sooo funny and entertaining. Believe me you'll love it!

Having more than my own share of number mix ups, I REALLY appreciated getting a chance to browse this book. I am well out of the natural target range for this series, but was definently in many of the sittuations described in this series. We have good intentions, but confusion makes the sittuation look like somebody has misbehaved or simply did not care about anything. When it would have been easier to talk over (and down to his audience) Winkler instead demonstrates natural empathy. Because math is hard for Hank, he has accidentally mis-measured the ingredients in the enchilada recipe---which ironically he had originally thought was better than the 'traditional' school assingments. Everything is worked out in the end though.