Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm by Herman Parish

Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm Reviews

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  Zoë

  [Book #33 for my grad school Children's Lit class]
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  Cindy Sheppard Gidge

  Read this awhile back when my kids were young; a laughable tale of the dear maid who takes everything literally :) Marvelous kid's books!
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  Katja Labonté

  3 stars. This book is very punny, and I think it goes over the heads of most little kids. As an adult, I enjoyed it more because of understanding the jokes better. It was a classic Amy Bedy type of story though, which my little siblings appreciate. And it makes me want to go to the library!
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  Courtney

  I loved Amelia Bedelia growing up and now I enjoy reading her stories to my children!!
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  Maya Epstein

  Cute! I loved Amelia Bedelia when I was little(r). It was was fun to revisit her.
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  Victoria

  A cute story, but many of the puns that are meant to amuse children were abstruse and outdated.
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  Jessica

  Love having an Amelia Bedelia book set in a library
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  Sandra Ayala

  This book tells the story of Amelia Bedila who is a house maid but also is confused on what to do. In the book Amelia Bedila is given specific instructions of chores to do around the house but somehow she always misunderstands these chores because the person who gives the order always gives orders as a figure of speech. However, Amelia Bedelia does not understand figure of speech and always takes the commands literally, so she does her job wrong throughout the book. At the end the owners come back and are surprised and annoyed that none of the chores get done, however Amelia bakes a pie at the end. That pie is so good that the home owners forgive her for her mistakes and realize why she had done everything wrong. This would be a good book to have in your classroom library because it can help out students who are just learning English and may not completely understand figure of speech yet. This fiction book is also fun for kids from grades 1st to 4th to read for leisure and get a laugh out of it.
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  Christine

  I read this today with my 7 year old book buddy. It was great fun as usual to see how mixed up Amelia Bedelia can get, this time in the library. As well as being a great book to read aloud, it also shows what a great place the library can be.
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  Rebeca Sanchez

  Amelia Bedelia is introduced as a maid of the Roger household, and in this book she goes to the local library. She spends most of her time at the library and mainly messes up everything with her literal sense. For example, when the librarian said the books needed sweaters Amelia made actual sweaters for the books. She causes a ruckus in places faster than a cheetah racing his prey. Amelia is a volunteer in this book when she misunderstands everything that is said when the librarian tries to clarify everything that is said. Mrs. Page- the librarian- is later surprised when Amelia steals away in the bookmobile while she was trying to "fix" everything that was messed up.
  
  I never thought that a "literal" book would be such a fun read with the main character doing all the things a child would do. The series overall is goofy and friendly from Parish's perspective of Amelia's actions and behaviors. I enjoyed the book overall with Amelia trying to help her library community, she's able to charm the librarian and kids from her "childish" nature. From the book's colorful illustrations and light humor, I would recommend this book to primary grades for pure enjoyment or even a lesson.
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  An EyeYii

  Amelia is the same bouncy happy housekeeper, flowery hat, ruffled apron, here surrounded by library books and summer shorts, T-shirts on child readers, by the original illustrator Sweat. Original series author Parish kept word play simple, easy. Now, her nephew Herman goes on less clear tangents I tried to follow but have lost interest.
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  Melissa Namba

  I want to say that I love it, but I don't. it is a good book and I'm glad that the series has expanded. however, some of the jokes seem tired. and when things are clarified they aren't really explained.
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  Leigh

  This doesn't read with the old charm of other Amelia Bedlia books. It reads like it might be newer. At any rate her quirks and willingness to do things exactly as stated is extremely heavy handed, passing into cringe level cheese.
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  earlgray

  I mean, it wasn’t awful, but the plot and storyline could have been so much better—at least a BIT more organized. I had no idea what was happening when and why it was happening. The transitions were nonexistent. I did however enjoy the library setting and the blunt jokes. SO MUCH BLUNTNESS.
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  Madeline Clements

  Amelia Bedelia is a classic from my childhood. This book is funny and teaches children not to take things so literally.
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  Jessie Drew

  Cute book. Helps introduce the idea of that words can have multiple meanings.
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  Katie Solt

  This was such cute book
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  Lizzie-Anne

  Just reread this for my nephew and he loves it just as much as I did when I was his age. Still as funny and heartwarming as ever!
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  Mama Smith

  Funny but again above my smart 5 year olds head in terms of puns.
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  Erynn

  I got this book signed by the author!
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  Story

  This definitely wasn't my favorite Amelia Bedelia book. I felt it was longer than necessary and didn't really hold our attention. Not bad but I don't feel the need to read it again.
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  Grace Lynch

  That bookmark pin though. That was funny!
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  Emily Gayle

  This book wasn't awesome like the original. It had some funny moments but wasn't my favorite. I did like the message of using libraries and reading though.
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  Vinod Jayachandran

  Yet again , Amelia Bedelia ends up doing something silly and ends up helping others.