I dread trying to ready comic-style books to my son. Unfortunately for me - he loves them. So we wade through. Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer was one of the easier ones to get through. With pirates, space adventures, sharks, cowboys and mountain lions all making an appearance, the book was a huge hit.

Raymond discovers the use of "meanwhile" as a literary device and uses it to avoid his mother. A fast paced humorous picture book that is a comic book-meets-metafiction storytelling tour de force. This is both an entertaining read aloud and a good creative writing prompt.

I could teach idea development and sentence fluency while using this text.

This was very cute and incredibly imaginative. The art is vivid and the plot is action-packed. I highly recommend it for silent reading or as a read-aloud.

Meanwhile...reminds me of Harold and the Purple Crayon, but with a focus on adverbs. WritingFix has a lesson about transitions using this as a mentor text. Here's the link: http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Pr...

I dread trying to ready comic-style books to my son. Unfortunately for me - he loves them. So we wade through. Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer was one of the easier ones to get through. With pirates, space adventures, sharks, cowboys and mountain lions all making an appearance, the book was a huge hit.

This is one of my FAVORITE stories to tell grades K thru 3. There's plenty of action and it engages both boys and girls. The adventures include pirates, cowboys, panthers, sharks, and outer space shoot-outs. "The situation was hopeless..."It also introduces the punctuation "elipsis" (The ellipsis consists of three evenly spaced ...) and its function in comic books. Very fun.

Super cute concept! Wouldn't it be so nice if there really was a meanwhile button so we could step out of a situation and think about things and come back to it when we have a good game plan? Or a pause button so we could pause parts of life and situations to take a break and come back to them.

I would recommend this book to 4th and 5th grade readers. The text resemble that of a comic book. Therefore, it maight be too challenging for younger reading to comprehend. The boy in this book takes adventures until his "meanwhiles" run out and develops an appreciation for being obedient.

What a fabulous little story!I picked this off the bookshelf in my classroom. This was part of the CLI onslaught of books delivered to me; I thought I would work my way through what the company is recommending my students to read.You know how in comic books to change the setting the author uses "meanwhile . . . "? That's what this book is about. The boy is summoned by his mother. He doesn't want to go, so he employs "meanwhile". He is transported from his bedroom to a pirate ship where he has gr...

I think the book is very good . I have no complaints.

This book bring graphic novels to younger readers be creating a picture book that plays well on comic book conventions in a way that is entertaining for young readers. The main character takes advantage of the word "meanwhile..." as it is used in cartoons and comic books to change the setting. The setting is the most crucial element in this story, as Raymond uses the word to transport himself to a pirate ship, the wild west, and other settings. In each setting, however, he finds that he is still...

Cute set of Calvin & Hobbes kinds of imaginary adventures, and a bit of a meta thing going on to support them, but.... "Meanwhile" changes not just the scene but the characters... it does *not* work the way Raymond wanted it to. This bothers me now, and it would have bothered me a *lot* when I was the target age for this book.

Jules Feiffer's "Meanwhile" is a unique and hilarious comic-book style adventure that kids aged 7-9 will enjoy. A young boy uses the word "meanwhile" to transport himself through fantasy lands filled with danger, all while ignoring his mother's request for household chore help!

I like this book a lot. Raymond loves to lay on his bed and read comic books. And his mother always seems to call him away when his story is getting juicy. She's calling him and she wants him right now. Raymond notices that in his comic books the word MEANWHILE always changes the story to something more exciting. He writes the word on his wall and he has all sorts of wild adventures. This would be a fun book to share with my fifth graders. I think this could lead to some great discussions and wr...

A boy's active imagination takes him away from his mother's calls to come help her. "Meanwhile" is the important word he discovers, and with that word he has daring adventures. Fun story with equally fun illustrations.

Cute and funny. Kids will love it!

This is an excellent book on imagination and what you can do with it. The comic book aspect catches your eye from the very start and the normal typed words gives it structure. The way that the word "meanwhile" would bounce him around from place to place gave it an interesting spin on imagination. This is a very good book. Great book for elementary students.

In comic books from back in the day, you always looked forward to when the narration box said the dramatic word MEANWHILE, which shifted the story to another part of the action and back. In this story, a young boy enjoys comics, anything to get away from his mom, who's been MEAN quite a WHILE. He decides to do something about it, writing the word MEANWHILE in a box, and allowing that box to transport him thru time and space to three different worlds. In one he's on a pirate ship. In another, he'...

Even though my dear hubby has a fairly extensive comic book collection and I've been known to enjoy the comic book Bone quite a bit, our girls don't read a lot of comic books, at least not yet. But when we saw this book at our local library, we just had to check it out. It might appeal more to boys, but we enjoyed the perilous adventures that Raymond faces. And we all had a good laugh at the Mom yelling up to her son - we all agreed that I have made similar pronouncements. Silly Mothers...