Baloney (Henry P.) is a children's picture book written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. It was published in 2001 by Viking Press. [1]
The book tells the story of an alien schoolchild who has an excellent reason for being late for school – he had been blasted off into space.
The book encourages the reader to work out the meaning of a word from its context. The apparently alien words sprinkled throughout the text are actually from Earth languages.
