#Sideways Stories from Wayside School

[school-of-all-time]

Semifinal: Wildcliff vs. Wayside

[kjelmose]

30 classrooms, supposed to be sideways

[andyoullhearitagain]

Just me?

[kahran042]

This is the only day you can reblog this until next year.

[picturebookshelf]

Sideways Stories From Wayside School

Original Edition: 1978 -- This Edition: 1985 Story: Louis Sachar -- Art: Julie Brinckloe

[allegorymetaphory]

I still spend a nonzero amount of time thinking about sideways stories from wayside school.

[bells12]

I think about this chapter a lot.

[thee1jas]

I’ve been drawing characters from sideways stories from wayside school by Louis sachar so this is bebe Gunn

[cthulu-in-a-ballgown]

Imagine an edgy remake of Sideways Stories from Wayside school where Sammy (the dead rat hidden in layers of raincoats) is introduced through strip poker.

[ilikereadingactually]

Reread Time: Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar (this edition illustrated by Julie Brinckloe, Avon Camelot 1985)

i was visiting my parents over the weekend and finished the book i was reading, so i pulled this from a box of books in my childhood bedroom that i've been meaning to bring home with me. what a fun reread!!! just the right amount of silly and offbeat humor. these are the stories of the teachers and kids of the class on the 30th floor of Wayside School, built 30 stories high instead of 30 classrooms in a row. i feel like rereading this has revealed to me a formative interest in narratives that are subtly interconnected, because these stories mostly each feature one kid and stand alone, but of course they involve the other kids in the class and refer to what you've learned or will learn about those kids in other stories! what a delight. my fave might be Paul, who sits in the back and doesn't pay attention to class, just spends the whole story battling his internal need to pull first one and then the other (to make it even and fair) of Leslie's tempting pigtails in the seat in front of him. VERY RELATABLE, PAUL.

the deets

how i read it: i read my physical copy from the late 80s or maybe early 90s, when i was in elementary school. it has a charming amount of yellowing on the edges of the pages, and forms in the back to mail order such gems as the Bunnicula series and mysteries by Mary Downing Hahn.

try this if you: enjoy dry, slightly dark humor, dig an alternate universe only a little different from ours, or know a kid in elementary school who is reading chapter books and likes funny stories.

a line i really liked: for context, Mrs. Gorf hates kids and keeps turning them into apples for such trespasses as sneezing or crying.

By the end of the week all of the children were apples. Mrs. Gorf was very happy. "Now I can go home," she said. "I don't have to teach anymore. I won't have to walk up thirty flights of stairs ever again."

[school-of-all-time]

School of All Time Final!

Welcome to the final!!

Asks are open if you want to send in propaganda. May the best (most interesting, most awful, most iconic, whatever) school win!

This tournament began with 256 schools (technically more if you count the qualifying rounds). If you want to know how we got here, you can see all the brackets below the cut:

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[incognito-princess]

I'm reading "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" to my class- I don't want to spoil the book for you, but in the first chapter there's a teacher who turns naughty children (and not naughty children) into apples. Yesterday I was finishing my apple after lunch and my class was dramatically horrified, exclaiming, "Who was that?"

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

few things make you feel worse about yourself and your prospects in life than returning to The Thing You Are Established And Well Known To Suck At, putting a solid chunk of your day into it, really giving it your all, feeling proud of yourself.... only for the results to be an utter disaster

like now not only do I know that I do, in fact, still suck at this

but I wasted time, energy and money/supplies and feel stupid for doing so, given that I really should know by now that I suck at it

I WANT TO BE GOOD AT IT. IM TRYING SO HARD WHY ISNT IT ENOUGH

I could have spent this time and energy doing things that I AM good at, and that also notably NEED TO GET DONE ON A DEADLINE VERY SOON. but instead I wasted the latter half of my day/night, and now I'll be exhausted and out-of-sorts tomorrow over this.

[reisolate]

I unexpectedly found a copy of the book in my house one day, and I greatly enjoyed it. Many people knew Louis Sachar for Holes, but this is what I knew him for.

every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had

[sivavakkiyar]

Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories From Wayside School

[tsunflowers]

”people from my neighborhood” by kawakami hiromi is a really weird book. every chapter is about three to five pages long and involves some shit like this

after I read this one I realized what it reminded me of—sideways stories from wayside school. the characters are consistent but the things that happen in the neighborhood are surreal and often sinister. it’s a short read and it’ll make you say “what?!” a lot