Amelia
Bedelia
Book Report
Book Report
By Harini
Grade III
The title
of my diorama project is "Amelia Bedelia, Shapes Up" authored by Herman Parish and
illustrated by Lynne Avril. Genre:
Humorous fiction.
The setting
of the story in the first chapter, which I
choose for diorama 3 - dimensional project is the math classroom because it explains the math fraction
problems in a humorous way.
The main
characters are
1. Amelia
Bedelia a funny girl, who takes the instructions literally. She makes hilarious
explorations of homonyms and idioms.
2. The
math teacher Mrs. Robbins
The plot of
the particular scene that I choose for the diorama, in the story is when Mrs.
Robbins explains fractions, to the students.
[Mrs. Robbins at the beginning of math class]
Mrs. Robbins: "What if I gave you a pie-"
Amelia Bedelia: "Thank you." “I love
pie".
Mrs. Robbins: I'm not really giving you a pie. Just
pretend. If I want to give eight slices to eight people, what fractions of pie
would each get?
Amelia Bedelia: “I’ve never tasted fraction pie. Is it
good?
(The whole class laughed)
Which is a funny humorous fiction kind plot, that the
author creates a problem through
Amelia Bedelia and resolves through
the teacher Mrs. Robbins, so that the readers could understand in a right
context.
Finally, I would like to recommend this book to others because the author of Amelia
Bedelia's book series explores various homonyms, figurative languages, idiom
and phrases, so that the readers could learn much more in a humorous way. For
example "It's time to hit the sack" means "It's time to go to
bed"
Happy
reading!
