Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia is loved by all children, including me. In this book, she ends up placing dates from a calendar into a "date" cake, putting a mirror on top of the Christmas tree so that everyone could be a star when they looked into the mirror, and stuffing stockings with stuffing meant for a turkey. This book catches and holds the attention of all readers because they cannot wait to see what silly mistake Amelia Bedelia will make next. The pictures also help break up the long sections of text and add to the hilarity of reading the book. The main message of the book is that mistakes are okay and sometimes they work better than what the original product was supposed to be.

Once again, literal-minded maid Amelia Bedelia makes a botch of her employer's instructions for Christmas preparations, but as always she comes up smelling like a rose.

Too long, too corny, and too repetitive for me, but my daughter loved Amelia Bedelia when she was four and still loves her today, twenty years later.

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Rated "Indifferent" in our old book database by Rod; rated "Good" by Adelia.

This is a perfectly funny book for young readers, but might also call for some explanation on a teachers part depending on the age group. Amelia Bedelia does it again by confusing everything on the Christmas list of things to do. This book is so funny, and once students fall in love with her character they often want to read more of her books.

Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia is a long story about a day in the life of Amelia Bedelia. She is a maid at the Rogers’ home, and she has a very long list of things to accomplish by the time they come home with Aunt Myra. Amelia takes things very literally; for instance, she thinks that a date cake is made out of the calendar dates, and not the fruit dates. She didn’t know how to stuff a Christmas stocking, so she made Thanksgiving stuffing and put it into clean socks. She had a rough go of it that day, but Aunt Myra enjoyed the things she did to welcome her home. The illustrations in this story are simple and get the point across in few pictures. There are a lot of words, but it doesn’t take much to finish the story with ease. show more The story is kind of hysterical, and children can laugh at her mishaps. She is quite the character, and the author did a good job of portraying her thoughts, so the audience knows what Amelia Bedelia is thinking when she completes the list that Mrs. Rogers wrote for her. show less

I enjoy Amelia Bedelia books for the reason that when I am working with a student who is learning English and does not know some of our wacky terms, these books can help. Amelia books have a lot of "play on words." For example "dust the drapes" and Amelia puts dust all over the drapes. I think that even kids who know english find these books funny and young readers get a kick out of her. As long as a young reader is interested in what they are reading, then they will keep reading, and that is very important.

Amelia Bedelia proves that she is not up on her Christmas vocabulary as she stuffs stockings with stuffing, cuts the tree with scissors to trim it, and makes a date cake by cutting up a calendar. Mrs. Rogers is worried about impressing Aunt Myra, but she proves to be a kindred spirit to Amelia Bedelia, and loves the mirror at the top of the tree with a "you're a star" sign. Of course it also helps that Amelia Bedelia makes a rockin' spice cake!

It Christmas Eve and Amelia Bedelia has lots to do in the Rodger's house before aunt Myra comes. She looks at the list Mrs. Rodgers left her. She begins to complete each task, but she takes it literally. Such as stuff the stockings, make a date cake, she puts dates from the calendar in it, etc. I would use this book as it is a funny story about figures of speech and not taking them literally. This book is good for ages 4-8.