Oh, Iggy. He means well. Sometimes. Maybe. At any rate, he doesn't mean to do anything really bad.
In this second book of his (mis)adventures, the author gives some wry asides on the "lessons" to be learned (or not learned) in the story but the real meat is the shenanigans of Iggy. It all starts when Iggy and his friends get bored and suggest burying something... preferably Iggy, since he's the shortest. Iggy quickly comes up with an alternative idea, and that leads to an unfortunate confrontation with their frightening principal Mrs. Wander, and then more things happen and Iggy gets suspended and he's just trying to not bother his dad and...
Well, it all ends well in the end. Sort of. Mostly for Iggy, and depending on your interpretation of "well."
Sam Ricks' black and white illustrations show the exuberant and heedless Iggy, zooming through life and from one disaster to another, and are the perfect match to Barrows' tongue-in-cheek lectures on the importance of Learning Your Lesson and Doing The Right Thing.
Verdict: This is the second book in the series and I laughed all the way through. Parents who dislike Junie B. Jones and Wimpy Kid will not be appreciative of this kind of humor and if you want more well-meaning disasters try Katy Kelly's Melonhead, but most kids will find this hilarious and (hopefully) are unlikely to emulate Iggy's antics.
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