McCarthy's humor is right on target for mischievous younger readers. Then the perspective shifts, as readers see George draw closer in each frame to the principal's door, where the quintet is attempting life upside down. When George waits in the hall for the principal, for example, readers see the world through George's eyes-as he watches the feet of five people go by, upside down. Take a ride on the 'Vomit Comet' and learn how it feels to be weightless.
Beginning with the lively endpapers, she often divides the action into comic book–style panels overflowing with surprising perspectives. With an appealing text and funny, brightly colored illustrations, Meghan McCarthy transports aspiring space travelers to astronaut school in her young nonfiction picture book. McCarthy's googly-eyed characters look designed for animation. not as much." The closing spread shows him donning a superhero costume with a capital G on the chest he "flies" upright but threatens a terrified-looking cat ("Super George to the Rescue!" reads the speech bubble).
His teacher, tutor, the school nurse and the principal can't change George's mind, but when all of the adults try life upside down themselves, George decides he will "do something new and it doesn't get him into trouble. "George, stop spilling your food," says his mother as he eats his dinner upside down. To be upside down." It sometimes gets him into trouble, however, as do the fantasy scenarios he offers by way of excuses. Loopy and bright, first-time author/artist McCarthy's George "likes to do many things./ But he loves
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