Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka

Have you ever: • Had your brother try to sell you your own shirt? • Made a list of all the bad words you know – for your teacher who is a nun? • Believed one of those AMAZING! ads in the back of a comic book? • Broken your brother’s collarbone playing football – four times? • Tied your little brother into his bed with your dad’s ties? Jon Scieszka has. Which is probably why Jon’s dad used to call him and his five brothers KNUCKLEHEADS. Here is Jon’s side of the story. And here, at last, is the memoir that might answer some of the questions of how the heck does someone think up a story of a little man made of very smelly cheese.