Book 041
After the previous
book, I needed something to change the tone again.
Margaret Atwood came
to the rescue!
Yep, Margaret
Atwood.
Her children's book
is wonderful! Everyone should get a copy
for on their bookshelves and if that is not possible, do their best to find it
through their public library!
Actually, according
to the back flyleaf, she has written other children's books but Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes is
the only one I am familiar with. It must
be read out loud! It is a short picture
book. Took me about 15 minutes to read
out loud to myself.
As the cover says,
it is a rollicking romp through the letter R.
Tongue twisters abound and grins broaden with each word, even the ones
that get stumbled over.
This is a great
book, no matter what. BUT ... if your
child is having trouble with reading in school, particularly with reading aloud
in class, get this book and read it to
your child. You WILL make mistakes and
stumble and you and your child should just laugh about it, make a couple funny
noises and pick up where you were and plow on.
This book gets a
10-grin rating from me!
Book 042
Kaye Umansky is a
British writer with a British sense of humor and a love of fun and
nonsense.
Wilma's Wicked Spell embodies these things. Wilma's older sisters are already wicked
queens with castles of their own but they delight in tormenting her (as sisters
often do) ... mother is queen of the night and daddy is a mortal with interests
in gardening. In Wilma's Wicked Revenge, (the revious Wilma book) Wilma did not get anything she really
wanted for her birthday, so she had ordered a huge box full of supplies for
herself including a crystal ball with audio capabilities ... which she uses to
get revenge on her two sisters ...
In this book, Wilma's Wicked Spell (book description from
GoodReads ...), Wilma, the Wicked Queen-in-training, is off to her mysterious
great-aunt's castle to help in a highly secret Magical project, involving a
soppy princess and a spinning wheel, a talking wolf, a broken curse--and an
awful lot of washing-up. Her aunt has been plotting for a hundred years and
Wilma has just three days to help.
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