Rating: 2 stars
I walked into the house today from my weekly morning out without kids to hear our sitter reading this book to Lorelei. I told Miss Chloe, "I just rescued you from finishing that book!" She gave me a thankful look and told me it was giving her a headache--I knew she wasn't exaggerating much. Here's a little example of what is in the loooooooong (three little chapters!) book:
"We could trick-or-treat."Good grief. I hope that your children will not find these in the library. If the do, consider hiding it immediately after you come home, in a place even the sitter can't find.
"How do we do that?" asked Morris.
"We go to people's houses and do tricks for them," said Norris.
"Then they give us treats."
"I don't know any tricks," said Boris.
"Maybe Floris knows some tricks," said Norris.
"Sit, Floris."
"I don't think Floris knows that trick," said Morris.
"Roll over, Floris," said Norris.
"Floris does not know that trick either," said Morris.
"Stand on four legs, Floris," said Norris.
"What a great trick," said Morris.
"Floris is such a clever dog," said Boris.
A lot of the first and second readers are like this, they repeat words or sounds a lot but don't make a lot of sense. In Ryan's reading program last year at school we were supposed to ask questions like, "who were the main characters? Was there a problem? How was it solved?" and Ryan would read a book like this and say, "It wasn't about anything." :) His first book review. ")
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