I loved this we read this with our friends the life skills children they seamed to have loved it to!! Very cute Thanks Ms.Maples for reading this to our homeroom's!!!

This is so my new favorite book!

Hilarious book - one of my kids' all-time favorites. Perfect for writing units, for perspective, for girl-boy tensions, and for all-out laughs.

This is what happens when you let a girl and a boy collaborate on a story. You get tenderhearted princesses, ponies, evil giants, and big dudes on motorcycles who rush into save the day and get rich on the gold thread the princess spins. But princesses these days aren’t content to sit back and spin gold thread while the big dudes on motorcycles get all the glory. Hell no. They hit the gym, pump some iron, and become warrior princesses. Hell yes. And then they kick the butts of the giants that have invaded their kingdoms and stolen their ponies. But, big dudes on motorcycles don’t really like spinning gold thread either, so they make an invisibility cloak and they go off to rescue the ponies. Warrior princesses don’t like getting left behind so they go with the big dudes (on motorcycles) and they rescue the ponies together (after fighting about who gets to do it). The giant is terrified and jumps off a cliff. Then, the WP and the BDOM go back to the kingdom, get married (what??), and have a beautiful daughter, no, son, no, daughter, no, son…ad infinitum.

This was a most fantastic picture book. Not only is it a non-traditional butt-kicking princess story, BUT there’s also a motorcycle dude in it. No less than three talented illustrators contributed to the success of this story. The princess illustrations are all lovely and fraught with unicorns, while the motorcycle dude features lots of dark violence, katanas, and volcanoes exploding all around him. So funny.

This book is SO fun to read! WE have read it every day this week, and I didn't get tired of reading it even 5 times in one day. Though I'm sure it's designed for an older age group, even my two-year-old LOVED it, especially the wet, stinky feet page :) Two kids share their favorite fairy tale story they made up....but they disagree on what is the "cool" story. Very fun to read....especially in different voices.

A friend of mine, Kelsey, gifted this to me years ago, to give to Kaya. Kaya loves this book, I read it to her every night. She likes the side notes from the authors. The book is hilarious, still a bit gender conforming / stereotyping, but it is cute, and breaks the rules of traditional fairy tales.

A book made to look like it was written by 2 kids - a boy and a girl. They make-up their own fairy tale that combines a princess and a motorcycle dude. Good book, but could possibly be scary for younger kids.

Evan got a kick out of this one. It's a boy and girl that have made up their own fairytale. I really liked the illustrations.

This is one of those children's books that is a joy for adults to read! A boy and a girl have to make up a fairy tale--each one is assigned his/her own artist--the results are so fun!!

This author came to my kid's school and signed a book for them. They think this book is the coolest ever. It's a little weird for me, but they love it.

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude is a new fairy tale told by two kids: a boy and a girl. The illustrators use different types of pictures depending on who is telling the story. The girl's version of the fairytale involves a princess and her ponies while the boy's tells of giants and motorcycle dudes. This story was slightly entertaining, but I enjoyed the pictures more than the story.
Genre: picture book
Copyright: 2005

This book is written from two points of view, boys versus girls. Both a girl and a boy were assigned to read a fairy-tale in class. The catch is that the boy and the girl couldn't decide on a story so they made up their own. I can imagine that if this were real and a teacher asked this from her students that the reaction she got from her students would be similar to what happens in the book. From the very begging you can tell this isn't your normal picture-storybook. What makes this story unique is that there are three illustrators involved in this book. One for the girl’s point of view, one for the boys point of view, and one for the characters in the book who are telling the story. This is a cool detail because it shows us the diverse takes on the girls and boys imagination. It also helps us not get confused because the characters telling the story look completely different then the story they are telling.

This book could be used in class to help teach diverse perspectives as well as story writing. I think that most children would like this book because the dueling characters are fun to look at, you want to keep reading to figure out what happens at the end, and boys and girls can relate to this book. I think this might be a book that boys will like to read because boys perspectives are often overlooked in fairy-tales. An activity that could be used with this book is a read aloud with girls reading the girl portion of the made up fairy-tale and boys reading the boy portion of the fairy-tale.