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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
A fun story for beginner readers. I just didn't like Sharon exploiting her classmates. And seeing how my sneaky daughter read this....I'm hoping she's not getting any ideas. Still, a good chapter book just for fun.
Reread this old favourite last night. I loved it for the nostalgia it brought, but as a whole, I think I was slightly disappointed.
Pop Sugar 2015 Reading Challenge - A book that came out the year you were born
Good early chapter book.
Good early chapter book.
I just read this in about 10 minutes, so it's beyond me how my teacher spent more than one session reading this to us in grade three. I definitely remember the blue freckles taking up more of the story than it did, so that was a bit disappointing as a nostalgic reread. But it was very cute, and I remember LOVING it when we read it in grade three. so five stars.
I remember liking this book as a child so I thought my son might, especially since he has so many freckles. Not so much. He said he really just didn't like it but he was pretty vague in his review. I'm giving it four stars because I still liked it and it was just as charming as I remembered it. I do have to say, though, that we were both awed that Andrew bought the secret freckle juice recipe for $0.50 and that was FIVE weeks allowance!
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume has been around since I was a kid. I could have read it when I was in school but I didn't. When it comes to reading I was (and to a degree still am) an ornery and sometimes obstinate reader. As a child I was told repeatedly by teachers and other well meaning adults (except immediate family members) that I had to read Judy Blume. Guess what I did; I didn't read her. No sir. My free reading time was my time and I wasn't going to take assigned reading.
Thirty years later I have a son who had Freckle Juice assigned to him for reading group at school. He loved the book and insisted I had to read it. I have an open reading policy with him which includes my vow to try any book he recommends to me. When he recommended Freckle Juice I made it the next library book I had to read.
Freckle Juice ends up being one of Judy Blume's shortest books, coming in at only 48 pages. That's half the length of even the shortest of the Magic Tree House books. The plot is pretty basic too in the form of a problem, a solution, a failed result, a new problem, a new solution. It's classic plot progression A to B to –A to B' to A'.
Andrew hates having to wash his face every day before school. He feels it's making him late to class but his mother insists. He figures if he just had freckles like his friend at school he could get away with not washing face in the morning. Sharon, another classmate, says that for a price he can buy her family recipe for "Freckle Juice." All it ends up doing is giving him a stomachache and to save face he has to come up with some other way of having freckles.
It's a cute and obvious plot with not much in the way of twists or turns except perhaps for the teacher's solution near the end of the book. I can see though why my son liked the book.
Thirty years later I have a son who had Freckle Juice assigned to him for reading group at school. He loved the book and insisted I had to read it. I have an open reading policy with him which includes my vow to try any book he recommends to me. When he recommended Freckle Juice I made it the next library book I had to read.
Freckle Juice ends up being one of Judy Blume's shortest books, coming in at only 48 pages. That's half the length of even the shortest of the Magic Tree House books. The plot is pretty basic too in the form of a problem, a solution, a failed result, a new problem, a new solution. It's classic plot progression A to B to –A to B' to A'.
Andrew hates having to wash his face every day before school. He feels it's making him late to class but his mother insists. He figures if he just had freckles like his friend at school he could get away with not washing face in the morning. Sharon, another classmate, says that for a price he can buy her family recipe for "Freckle Juice." All it ends up doing is giving him a stomachache and to save face he has to come up with some other way of having freckles.
It's a cute and obvious plot with not much in the way of twists or turns except perhaps for the teacher's solution near the end of the book. I can see though why my son liked the book.
Fun book about what kids get up to in 2nd grade. Really enjoyed it and super short.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated