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Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

by Stephen Manes

A three-day experiment in perfection

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the California Young Reader Medal

    Listed among five kid-voted statewide awards won by the book.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A three-day experiment in perfection

Milo Crinkley’s project begins with an unlikely library discovery: a manual promising to make its readers perfect in three days. He tries its instructions for practical reasons—hoping to escape parental nagging, blame for his sister’s tricks, and the need for erasers. The premise turns the everyday wish to get things right into a humorous children’s story, with the supposed expert’s extravagant claims adding to the joke. The description leaves Milo’s outcome open, making the promise of perfection itself the story’s playful question.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12 looking for humorous fiction
  • Young readers interested in stories about perfection and everyday family frustrations

Themes

Perfection and self-improvementFamily misunderstandings and blameHumor

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Book overview

Is it possible? Can an ordinary human being really become a perfect person in three short days?

Milo Crinkley thought so. What gave him the idea was a book that fell on his head one day at the library--a book with the impressive title Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! The author, Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish, did look kind of weird, but he claimed to be the world's leading authority on perfection.

Milo took the book home and followed its instructions. He liked the idea of being perfect. Perfect people never had their parents nag at them. Perfect people never had to take the blame for rotten tricks their sisters played. Perfect people never needed erasers. Perfect was obviously the perfect thing to be!

Did Milo become a perfect person in just three days? More important, can you?

Do you think we're going to answer all your questions here when we want you to read this hilarious book?

A personal message from Dr. K. Pinkerton Silverfish, world's leading expert on perfection:

● Maybe you think it's all a lot of baloney. Maybe you think nobody can
become perfect in three short days. Well, maybe you should think again!

● Here's my no-risk guarantee:

Try this book for just three days. If you're not absolutely delighted
with the results, you can go soak your head. Now, what could be fairer
than that?

● I won't be satisfied until every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth completes my amazing crash course in perfection. So, remember: If you don't read this book, I'm going to tell on you!

Winner of five kid-voted statewide awards!

California Young Reader Medal
Charlie May Simon Award (Arkansas)
Georgia Children's Book Award
Nene Award (Hawaii)
Sunshine State Award (Florida)

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