I Wanna Books

In order from I Wanna Iguana to I Wanna Go Home

picture • 32 Pages

5.8

Series

Book #1

I Wanna Iguana

Written by Karen Kaufman Orloff & illustrated by David Catrow

4 - 8

Reading age

Page count

Jan 1, 2004

Publication date

Hardcover

$18.99

$17.97

Summary

Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won’t have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn’t want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex’s reassurances: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I’ll be married by then and probably living in my own house. and his mom’s replies: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? will have kids in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes. And the lively, imaginative illustrations show their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana.

I Wanna Series

Published from 2004 - 2014

3 books

picture • 32 Pages

5.8

Series

Hardcover

$18.99$17.97

picture • 32 Pages

Series

Hardcover

$17.99$16.97

picture • 32 Pages

Series

Hardcover

$18.99$17.97

Year	Title	Pages
2004	I Wanna Iguana	32
2010	I Wanna New Room	32
2014	I Wanna Go Home	32

The Creatives Behind the Books

Author

Karen Kaufman Orloff

KAREN KAUFMAN ORLOFF is the author of several books for children, including the bestselling I Wanna series, illustrated by David Catrow (Putnam). For Sterling, she has written Talk, Oscar, Please!, illustrated by Tim Bowers; If Mom Had Three Arms, illustrated by Pete Whitehead; and Miles of Smiles, illustrated by Luciano Lozano. She has another book scheduled for Sterling’s Spring 2018 list: Some Days. Karen lives in Dutchess County, NY.

Illustrator

David Catrow

David Catrow is the illustrator of many picture books including Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon and its sequel Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon, written by Patty Lovell; I Wanna Iguana and its two companion books I Wanna New Room and I Wanna Go Home, written by Karen Kaufman Orloff; Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel;The Middle Child Blues by Kristyn Crow; and We the Kids: the Preamble to the Constitution. He lives in Ohio with his wife, Deborah.