Santa Claus Doesnt Mop Floors (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #3) by Debbie Dadey

Santa Claus Doesnt Mop Floors (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #3) Reviews

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  Darth J

  
  Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors... Or Does He?
  
  This third installment into the Bailey School Kids series is filled with elementary school holiday time nostalgia that children (and children at heart) will enjoy.
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  Brandon

  It has been forever sense I've read a bailey school kids book. I admit I'm way above the target audience age ,but nostalgia always wins . I've read a few as a kid but I cannot tell you anything about them. Santa doesn't mop floors starts with a janitor being mad because some kids pulled a prank by placing peanut butter down handrails.The janitor quits and they have to find a new employee. Here we meet Mr.Jolly, a chubby guy with a beard, that loves the cold and has a little small friend named Eli ,who is assumed to be an elf .Mr Jolly also has a little red book that he writes things in Everytime a kid misbehaves and drives a sports car with a Santa phrase on the lisense plate. That's really all I can give away as this book is only 70 pages long .I will say I did enjoy this tho it was very christmasy, plenty of snow and talks about Christmas .It even almost felt like a Hallmark movie at some points . The only negative I have is it just ends I kinda wanted a little more. I give Santa Doesn't Mop Floors a solid 3 out of 5 stars .
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  BookeryBliss

  The collection of "The adventures of the Bailey School Kids" stories are among my all-time favorite children's books. Witty, mischievous and fun, these short and silly books continue to bring giggles to the young and old. Just as I have enjoyed them as a kid, my own children also love them today. I even catch myself re-reading them (alone) from time to time. What can I say? I guess I'll always be a BSK kid at heart.
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  Kyla

  I loved these books as a kid & still think they're some of the best beginner chapter books. It was fun to revisit this story.
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  Brittany

  I loved the Bailey School Kids as a kid. Just read this one and thought it was cute and funny, but I could have lived without the fat phobia and body shaming…
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  Dolly

  This is the 3rd book in
  The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series by
  Debbie Dadey,
  Marcia Thornton Jones and
  John Steven Gurney.
  
  This story centers on a new school janitor who looks a lot like Santa Claus. It also discusses the topic of believing and not believing in Santa and Christmas, so I would warn parents that if they don't want to bring up the fact that many schoolchildren at this age doubt the existence of Santa, this book may not be for you. Our girls have been questioning the jolly old elf's existence, at least between the two of them. This book doesn't really answer any questions definitively, but it celebrates the magic of the season and it also validates their ponderings.
  
  We've read several books in this series and our girls like them. We are skipping around the series, but it doesn't seem to matter much. We will certainly read more as we come across them, although I prefer our girls to read them independently. They are quick, entertaining reads and aren't scary.
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  paige turner ♡

  I have always enjoyed books with Christmas cheer, miracles, and all that stuff. I mean, it was pretty sad to learn that Eddie's mother passed away and his dad didn't want to celebrate Christmas anymore. That could be why he's being such a rotten kid.
  
  But to take on Santa Clause, that kids got some nerve.
  
  But Again, Eddie goes on with his usual, "I'm gonna prove to you monsters don't exist" or "I'm gonna prove to you this person isn't that type of thing" again, and again he fails.
  
  But still, I wish Santa had stuck around to hear Eddie say thank you.
  
  I wish that we were able to witness the dad saying he was going to stay at home for Christmas, and that they needed Christmas joy.
  
  That's the only thing that was missing.
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  Jerome Otte

  Another fun addition to the series. Mr. Jolly is the new janitor, and his Santa-esque appearance, fondness of cold weather, and seemingly magical ability to clean up Eddie’s over-the-top messes raise suspicions about him being Santa Claus. He also seems to be making notes about the kids’ behavior.
  
  Fun, interesting, not scary at all.
  
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  Olivia

  santa do not mop floors but build toys.
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  Micaela Semien

  I liked reading this during the Christmas season, thesd series were so good! I could not put this book down.
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  Kirk

  Holy shit. I’m not done reading yet, but there’s too much gold not to start now.
  
  The kids bully the original janitor out of school. A new dude shows up in shorts and a t-shirt to take over.
  
  He watches the kids during recess.
  
  Takes notes.
  
  If he ain’t Santa, he’s going to be on To Catch a Predator before Christmas. I’d put money on it. So he better fucking be Santa. There’s no room for a bait and switch here, dudes. If there is, it’s going to require some major finesse to rationalize this behavior.
  
  He has a little man who follows him around and begs him to come home.
  
  The new janitor don’t give a fuck, and why would he? He can smoke his pipe in the elementary school lunch room (there is a nice drawing of this in the book). I had to check the date to see when this book came out.
  
  This book was published in 1991. Santa is smoking in the lunch room in 1991.
  
  Anyway, this dude isn’t going anywhere. The wages are alright. It probably is even refreshing to get out of the house 🤷🏻‍♀️
  
  So it gets more interesting, of course . . .
  
  Alright. New development. This janitor sweats all the time and wants the building cold. Maybe he’s acclimated to the north pole. Maybe he’s a fucking drug addict though. Maybe he’s sweating out last night’s coke binge 🤷🏻‍♀️ Hard to say.
  
  In the next development, the kids do what kids do best: act like assholes. They cover a room in toilet paper and make a mess.
  
  Five minutes later it is completely clean.
  
  Magic?
  
  Or is this new janitor part of the mafia cleanup crew and he just took this job to embezzle funds?
  
  Melody finally admits this shit is creepy, and I am relieved at least someone notices how odd all this shit is other than me.
  
  Then they make another mess and do whip its in the hallway like me and my friend Tom used to do in the dairy aisle in Jersey City.
  
  In the end, it really doesn’t matter if this dude is Santa, a drug addict, a pedophile, or part of a mob cleanup crew. Eddie oversteps again and again, and Mr. Jolly is infinitely kind (or drug-addled).
  
  Mr. Jolly tells Eddie to calm the fuck down, and the next day Eddie shows up to school feeling better. For the first time in history it worked! Someone told someone else to calm right the fuck down, and they listened! I think I’ll try this technique again with my wife tomorrow 😌
  
  
  
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  Britt

  Eddie keeps making messes and causing trouble in school. When he finally goes too far, his actions result in the janitor quitting and because it's so close to Christmas, it's going to be hard to fill the position. The principal knows that the damages were caused by someone in Eddie's class so he punishes them by taking away their recess to make them clean instead. As if by a miracle though, the school does get a new janitor named Mr. Jolly. He came dressed in bright clothing, had a long white beard and was round in the middle, he sort of resembled Santa Claus. Well, Eddie was determined to make Mr. Jolly quit too so he made even bigger messes that should take hours to clean but were somehow, cleaned in minutes. When the students noticed that Mr. Jolly's friend looked like an elf, called him by the name of "S.C." and saw him writing in a notebook all of the time, they started to wonder if he was the real. You never do know where you'll find him, but do be aware that he always sees you.
  
  This series is perfect for Elementary students and the illustrations are great.
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  McKenzie Richardson

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  Craft-Cycle
  
  Growing up, I loved the Bailey School Kids series. It was a fun way to mix mystical elements into reality. In this one, the school gets a new janitor who may or not be Santa Claus.
  
  Fun story with interesting events. I'll admit the kids are kind of jerks in this one (playing tricks on the janitor, making fun of fat and short people), but overall it is entertaining. There are definitely some cringe-y moments, but to be fair this was published in 1991, before the mainstream fat acceptance movement. There are definitely some flaws, but overall it is still a fun book.
  
  A nice book that isn't too Christmas-y.
  
  
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  Derek L.

  This was such a cute little story. I never read this one when I was a kid, but the charm is definitely in this story. It does fall short somewhat, as wtf is a grown ass adult man doing smoking a pipe in an elementary school and acting like a perv by stalking little kids? I mean, I get that the kids believe he's Santa Claus (as if S. C. wasn't a dead giveaway), but it comes off as problematic now.
  
  Also, I hate to bring this up, but there's a slight fatphobic remark in the book that didn't really sit well with me. Sorry but even if you were a 90s kid, you knew better.
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  Shilo Quetchenbach

  This was a lot of fun. It was nice to see Eddie having a bit of a change of heart. (I haven't read the first book to my 3rd grader because he's very impressionable and tends toward getting in trouble and I think the focus on Eddie trying to bully teachers to quit is asking for trouble. Luckily Eddie mellowed his troublemaking a lot in the following books.)
  
  Kiddo enjoyed the is-he-isn't-he question of whether Mr. Jolly is really Santa Claus. We didn't discuss it as much afterwards but he still enjoyed it.
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  Alex

  I enjoyed this book because I like Christmas. I did not like this book because I don't really like Bailey School Kids books. I did not like this book because I did not like the part when there was a box overflowing with whipped cream.
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  Hannah Belyea

  When Bailey Elementary gets a new custodian for the holidays, the third graders believe that this jolly soul with the thick white beard may in fact be Santa Claus! Dadey brings holiday cheer with this fun and funny entry to the beloved series!
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  Sheena

  My daughter Easton and I are currently working our way through the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids books. This is the best way to get her to want to read and its almost a game to find all the books.
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  Samantha Osborne

  Another good read from the Bailey school kids
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  Sabrina

  It kind of ends abruptly, but it's cute.
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  Laura Danielle

  Loving this series. I'm ready for more. This is helping me get my reading in since im not feeling well.
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  Alex

  I think I'm enjoying this series even more as an adult than I did as a kid!
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  Angel Navarro

  A very cute and fun Christmas story.
  
  The story feels nostalgic and magical!
  
  The ending could have benefited by a few extra pages but that's about it.
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  Kristin

  Cute.
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  Sarah

  Eddie loves to stir the pot.
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  Reneethereader

  I am loving these more and more as I'm getting to read them
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  Ashlyn Stelmach

  This was a solid, nostalgic read, but I feel like the ending left a little to be desired.