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erinlynn1989's review against another edition
5.0
Oh my goodness.
As a substitute, I really enjoyed this book. It was hysterical. Now I don't take everything literally like Amelia, but sometimes, teachers leave some wacky plans.
It was fun to read to my preschoolers. They liked it. I liked it. It was a win/win.
As a substitute, I really enjoyed this book. It was hysterical. Now I don't take everything literally like Amelia, but sometimes, teachers leave some wacky plans.
It was fun to read to my preschoolers. They liked it. I liked it. It was a win/win.
emkoshka's review against another edition
3.0
Nothing's ever boring when Amelia Bedelia is around; this time, she takes over as substitute teacher and teaches the kids a lesson or two about how to make learning inadvertently fun. They're a bit mean though to go along with all the bizarre things she does without correcting her. Funny enough, a few days after I read this book, I walked past a house where someone had planted a light bulb in a planter box. Awesome! I also loved her attitude to maths problems involving apples being taken away: 'You all have apples. Somebody is going to try to take some away. Are you going to let them?'.
theresidentbookworm's review against another edition
3.0
Who wouldn't want Amelia Bedelia as their teacher? Just imagine her teaching high school. That's a book I would read right now. (And of course, she makes everything better in the end by making pie. Pie is just the solution to everything.)
nnecatrix's review
2.0
Book #22 for 2012
This week I began volunteering for the children's summer literacy program at one of the local trailer parks. There is a time each day for silent reading, and I had planned to read one of the books I had downloaded onto my phone's e-readers while the students were reading books they had selected. My phone was being uncooperative, though, so I plucked this book off the shelf.
It took me all of 15 minutes to zip through, and it was fairly entertaining in spots. I might have given it 3 stars, but there was a problem with possessives that ticked me off. I know it sounds weird to say "the Rogerses" to mean the Rogers family, but really, that's how the plural is formed. (Likewise, my family is referred to as the Pontiuses, not the Pontii, even though the latter is much more fun to say.) So the home of the Rogers family is "the Rogerses'" and not "the Rogers'." I personally think we should follow the French model, which pluralizes a family name by sticking a "les" in front of the name and turns "the home/place of" into the much more elegantly economical "chez." In the meantime, though, can we please not put terrible English errors in children's books?
I also gather that this particular story may not have been the best introduction to Miss Bedelia. I just couldn't get past the idea that sometimes she was more than a little stupid. Even if she's usually more clever than this book made her out to be, however, she is certainly no Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
This week I began volunteering for the children's summer literacy program at one of the local trailer parks. There is a time each day for silent reading, and I had planned to read one of the books I had downloaded onto my phone's e-readers while the students were reading books they had selected. My phone was being uncooperative, though, so I plucked this book off the shelf.
It took me all of 15 minutes to zip through, and it was fairly entertaining in spots. I might have given it 3 stars, but there was a problem with possessives that ticked me off. I know it sounds weird to say "the Rogerses" to mean the Rogers family, but really, that's how the plural is formed. (Likewise, my family is referred to as the Pontiuses, not the Pontii, even though the latter is much more fun to say.) So the home of the Rogers family is "the Rogerses'" and not "the Rogers'." I personally think we should follow the French model, which pluralizes a family name by sticking a "les" in front of the name and turns "the home/place of" into the much more elegantly economical "chez." In the meantime, though, can we please not put terrible English errors in children's books?
I also gather that this particular story may not have been the best introduction to Miss Bedelia. I just couldn't get past the idea that sometimes she was more than a little stupid. Even if she's usually more clever than this book made her out to be, however, she is certainly no Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
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