Everyone knows teachers live at school. They exercise, eat, and sleep there. They have pillow fights, make shadow animals in the dark, and read stories aloud. The cafeteria staff whips up grand delectables from the leftovers at lunchtime for them to eat. Mrs. Quirk, the narrator's teacher, knows how to have fun with the best of them. One day, however, the narrator spies Mrs. Quirk at a grocery store. Could the teacher be leading a double life? On another occasion, Mrs. Quirk is seen roller-skating in the park with a strange man. How odd. And even odder is the little girl skating with them, who looks like Mrs. Quirk. In this genially goofy tale, Krensky introduces children to the idea that teachers are people, too, and the rollicking text and bright, jaunty illustrations add up to lots of fun. (Reviewed November 15, 1996)