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Loading... Bartholomew and the Oobleckby Dr. Seuss
None.  chrisyt | Oct 30, 2012 |  The king asks his magicians to send something new from the sky. The result is disasterous. (  ) dianecaesar | Mar 9, 2012 | King Derwin is bored with the fact that the same 4 things, snow, sunshine, fog, and rain, fall from the sky year after year. One day, against the advice of Bartholomew, the king decides to have his magicians create something new to fall from the sky that will be all his. The magicians work all night long, and the next morning Bartholomew wakes to find Oobleck, a green, gooey substance, falling from the sky. The Oobleck was like glue and stuck to anything it touched, and as time went by the more and more Oobleck fell from the sky. Bartholomew tried to warn the people but it was too late, and everyone everywhere was stuck, even the king. The king tried to remember the magic words the magicians used in an attempt to stop the Oobleck, but it was no use. Bartholomew tells the king that rather than saying some silly magic words, he should be saying sorry. The king refuses at first, but after some convincing from Bartholomew the helpless king reluctantly says, "I'm sorry," and the Oobleck everywhere melted away. (  ) esproull | Feb 19, 2012 | King Derwin is bored with the four types of weather in his kingdom. So he tells his Royal Magicians that he wants something new to fall from the sky. Bartholomew begs him not to do it because he knows something bad will happen. But King Derwin doesn't listen. The next day oobleck begins falling from the next sky. But it's sticking to everything that it touches and getting everyone stuck. Bartholomew tries to get help but finally returns to the king, yelling at him and forcefully telling him to say he's sorry. The king swallows his pride and sobs how sorry he is for the oobleck. Magically the sun comes out and the oobleck disappears. I love the allegory behind Dr. Suess and his stories for children that have messages for adults! Great for a classroom read aloud. (  ) missbrandysue | Oct 29, 2011 | Caldecott Honor (1950) Classic Dr. Seuss  ShawnaBeck | Aug 5, 2011 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0394800753, Hardcover)Bartholomew and the Oobleck easily qualifies as a Seuss classic, first told way back in 1949. And its message--the importance of owning up to your mistakes and saying that you're sorry--is as timeless now as it was then.Bartholomew Cubbins serves thanklessly as pageboy to King Derwin of Didd, a headstrong man who's decided he isn't satisfied with mere sun, fog, rain, and snow. ("Humph! The things that come down from my sky!") He wants something else, something uniquely his own, so he calls in his royal magicians ("Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Fista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls"). Happy to oblige, the magicians tell the king they can make "oobleck" fall from the sky, only nobody--not even the magicians--knows just what oobleck is. But after a night of arcane incantations, everyone in the kingdom gets a taste of the stuff (in the case of the Captain of the Guard, literally!), as the green, gluey goo gums up everything in sight. Of course, Bartholomew tries to help, but it's up to the king to save the day, as he learns to utter not magic words but simple words with magic in them: "I'm sorry." (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:36:29 -0400) The King, tired of rain, snow, sun and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom. |
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This is a Dr. Seuss book so you know it is full of weird sounding names. Bartholomew is a boy who must save his kingdom from a bad choice the king made. The king decided that he had grown tired of seeing bright and shiny days, so he told the magician to make the weather change to rain and fog. The magician made a mistake and created Oobleck which is a grouse green yucky slime. The Oobleck covered everything, but no matter how much the boy warned people they did not listen. The Oobleck finally got on the king and he realized the mistake he made and he said the magic words “I’m Sorry”, and the magicians spell reversed and the Oobleck melted away and all were happy.
Extension:
Students can become magicians and create their own Oobleck.
Students can write a story about something that happened to them when they did not listen and how they resolved it.