More Spaghetti, I Say!

Minnie, the monkey, is obsessed with spaghetti. All she wants to do is eat spaghetti, but all Freddy, her friend, wants to do is play with Minnie. This modern fantasy follows the fixation Minnie has and the frustration Freddy accumulates because of it. I liked that the majority of the story was rhyming, "Play with me Minnie, play with me please. We can stand on our heads and hang by our knees." The rhyming gives the story an ease of reading because it just rolls off the tongue. The exaggeration of Minnie's love for spaghetti also creates a funny aspect to the story. For example, "I love it on pancakes with ice cream and ham. With pickles and cookies, bananas and jam. I love it with mustard and marshmallow stuff. I eat it all day I just show more can't get enough." The exaggeration encourages details in the illustrations, which was my favorite part of the book. The illustrator displays the humor in the story by matching the exact exaggerated words on the page to the pictures. The big idea of the book was to entertain readers, but also to explain how unhealthy it is to be completely consumed into a single thing and how it can affect your friendships. show less

I liked this little book, More Spaghetti, I Say by Rita Golden Gelman. I enjoyed how this book circles back around at the end. The book begins with the female monkey unable to play with the male monkey because she is obsessed with spaghetti. Throughout the book she explains why she loves spaghetti and can’t play. At the end of the story she is finally ready to play but it is now the male monkey who can’t play because she got him hooked on spaghetti. I also enjoyed the rhythm in this poetry book. It seemed to give you parts of the story in chunks and its rhythm made you want to keep going. The repeating part “I love it. I love it. I love it. I do.” was almost like the chorus of a song and made you want to finish the melody. This show more books theme was entertainment. It has easy vocabulary and sentence structure to allow for enjoyment of the story and illustrations. show less

This is a super cute story about a monkey who loves spaghetti. She loves it so much that all she can do is eat it and talk about it. Her friends get frustrated with her because they want to play with her. This book would be appropriate for second grade readers and could be fun to read aloud to younger students.

I really enjoyed this book. This picture book is a fantasy. One of the moneys is too busy eating spaghetti to play with her friends. She finally eats so much spaghetti she feels sick and has to stop. The moneys friend who wanted to play with her took the spaghetti away from her and then he ate it! When she said she can play now, the friend begins to become too indulged in his spaghetti to play. This book teaches children to empathize with others.

A little monkey girl Minnie likes eating spaghetti but her friend Freddy wants to play with her. Unfortunately Minnies is always too busy eating spaghetti so she won't play with him. Finally, they switch roles and Freddy eats spaghetti and decides he loves it but Minnie is too full. I thought this book was really funny, and it is totally relatable for children. Grades K- 3 would enjoy this book the most.

Young monkey Freddy begs Minnie to play, but she's too busy eating spaghetti, she loves it very much! When Minnie is finally ready to play, Freddy only wants to eat spaghetti. Even though this book is predictable, it is still very entertaining and contains great vocabulary. This would be a good book to use in an early elementary classroom, K-1, because of the great verbs it contains and its frequent use of the challenging vocab word, spaghetti.

"I love it, I love it, I love it I do, I love it so much more than you!" I fully enjoy this beginning reader book. Lots of rhyming, repition and silliness. For those too young for reading, it would be fun to read before recess or outside to really encourage kids to be animated and silly. Students could have the opportunity to consider a food they really enjoy.