I love Amelia Bedelia. She is such a funny character! The Amelia Bedelia stories are great books for children beginning to read. I like to read them aloud to students. It is fun to hear their reactions to Amelia Bedelia's misinterpretations and the illustrations are entertaining too. ( )

This is a good example of realistic fiction because the setting is very vivid and described throughout the story. For instance, Alcolu decorates the bushes with a box of prunes and then "showers" Miss Alma with the garden hose. Also, a variety of characters are present throughout the story such as Amelia, Alcolu, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, and the guests.

Media: watercolor, pencils ( )

My husband hates this book so much that he has taken on toothbrushing just so he won't get stuck reading it at storytime. He just can't stand the inconsistencies: how does Amelia Bedelia know how to ice cupcakes but not fish? Wouldn't icing fish be more intuitive? It isn't just metaphorical language that she has a problem with, such as "run over this tablecloth with an iron." Because then she would put frozen water on the cupcakes.
I am not bothered by this problem. And I enjoy the vision of a life where people have afternoon parties with tea and presents, and where ladies get together and sew, wearing shirtwaist dresses. Does it take place in the South of France? I also like the one lady who wears black, with severe glasses. She looks like a 1996 poststructuralist academic who has wandered into the wedding shower. But a cheery one.

It was very funny. I like when Amelia showered Mrs. Rogers with the hose. I liked at the end when the kids held Mr. Rogers' friend down and showered him with the water. ( )

Amelia Bedelia is always a simple, fun and entertaining read! In this volume, we find Amelia and her cousin in charge of setting up a surprise wedding shower for a friend of her employer Mrs. Rogers. In typical Amelia Bedelia fashion, the literal meaning of the requests and orders given and the intended meaning are two different things entirely...it's always fun to watch kids register that the words in the story really do mean two different things (like filling a bowl with cut flowers...simple, yet taken literally, you get something entirely different from it...this is the joy of Parish's writing). Parish always does it with just the right amount of frivolity and light-hearted humor that it's impossible not to love Amelia Bedelia despite all the trouble she causes! I love the Amelia Bedelia series as a read aloud because it's so much fun, but the Amelia Bedelia series is also ideal for young readers, especially those just starting to read on their own! There are not a lot of words on each page, but what is there is easy to understand and conveyed succinctly and with humor and the illustrations are perfectly matched to the text (with a slightly old fashioned feel to them). You just can't go wrong with these books! ( )