This is another great installment of the George and Martha books by James Marshall. The book is filled with five mini stories including one about a diary, one about scaring someone, one about an amusement park, one about a tightrope, and one about an icky story. Kids will love these books!

This is a 5 story book about 2 friends, George and Martha, who go through many things together. The first story is about one friend helping the other gain confidence and face their fears. The second story is telling how Martha writes in her diary and George wants to see it but Martha won't let him. He finally stops spying and asks to look at her diary, and martha still says no. Story 3 is about telling icky stories to one another like silly friends do. Story four is about how friends scare one another and Martha forgets to scare George, and story five is about George and Martha's night at the fair with one another and Martha finally remembers to scare George.

George and Martha are hippos and best friends. There are five stories in this book about some of their adventures. This book is good for kindergarden to third graders because there are great pictures and good lessons for children to learn. For example, in the first story, George gets nervous for Martha because she is walking on a tight rope, but when he encourages her of how great she is, Martha gains confidence and even performs tricks. Boosting people's confidence with encouragement is a positive skill for children to learn.

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/... is a website that gives background on James Marshall's life and tells a little bit about all of his books.

This book is actually made up of five short stories that all come together in the last story. The stories deal with manners and shows examples of bad manners followed by good manners. They all have elements of humor. This book is also available on tape.

George and Martha One Fine Day is a very cute story book. It has five different stories about two best friends. In each of the stories a lesson is shown, humor, friendship, and love. George is always trying to get Martha in one way or another. In the first story, she is tightroping and he is talking to her and scaring her, then he tries to read her dairy and tell her icky stories. This book almost shows to me how boys are goofy and always messing with girls,but in the end of this book Martha prevals and shows George not to mess with her. On wikipieda.com, it tells you about James Marshall's life and all the books he has written. This could be a good tool to use to help children get fimilar with his other writings. ( )