Lime-colored, freckled Henry P. Baloney is late for class and faces "Permanent Lifelong Detention" from Miss Bugscuffle. He concocts an excuse that spools across the pages in emphatic, italicized ...

The initial setting seems universally familiar–“Last Tuesday morning, at 8:37 a.m., Henry P. Baloney was finally late for class once too often”–but we notice Henry and his teacher are both ...

Actually, the Brooklyn author is merely quoting from his just released children’s book, “Baloney (Henry P.).” The giddy tale, about a chronically tardy space boy facing Permanent Lifelong ...

Consummate jester Smith (Baloney [Henry P.]) revisits the classic tale of a misbehaving puppet, and needless to say, this ain't 19th-century Italy. Smith summarizes all of the Pinocchio story in ...

Children will be delighted by Jon Scieszka's use of wordplay in Baloney (Henry P.), including the spoonerism "sighing flossers" for "flying saucers." "Thursday afternoon, Barack Obama presided ...