Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower (I Can Read, Level 2)

by Peggy Parish

Book Overview

Learn to read with the classic Amelia Bedelia Ever since Amelia Bedelia made her debut in 1963, young readers have been laughing out loud at the antics of this literal-minded but charming housekeeper.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064440192
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Great introduction to word play!

Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower is a wonderful opportunity for readers to enjoy just how funny it is to interpret words literally. Poor Amelia Bedelia is always intending to do her very best, and follows her employers instructions to the last detail! A surprise shower involves, of course, a garden hose! Pruning a garden requires prunes! And running an iron involves -- well, you can figure it out, yourself! It's no wonder Peggy Parish's writing is so popular with her young fans -- and their parents. This one is sure to be a favorite!

Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower

Wonderful. This book is as amusing to adults as it is to children. My daughter enjoyed the book so much, she added it to her summer reading. Since it is an 'I can Read' my daughter read the story aloud to me and just started laughing as she was reading it - which is proof to me of a good book. Reading should be fun, not a chore. She has been talking about the book with friends and making everyone laugh. I recommend this book to anyone who has a child who is ready to start reading on their own and wants to add laughter to their child's reading experience.

This Party is Not All Wet...Despite the Hose!

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!

Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Sower

Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower, is a wonderful child's book, mainly read for and to 6-8 year olds. When Amelia and her cousin Alcolu is told about the "surprise shower" Mrs.Rogers is having for Ms.Alma they were confused, and then they realized, that a surprise shower is where friends "shower the special someone with gifts for the occasion.So of course Amelia and Alcolu had a gift too. The motto of this story is "its ok to be yourself, even if being yourself means strange and comfusing". I recommend this book to any child, its fun and easy to read.

Amelia Bedelia's Best Book!

This book will have parents and children laughing out loud, until the last page. In this story, Miss Alma is going to have a shower at the Rogers-Bedelia House. So Amelia Bedelia almost crashes the party with her cousin. She puts prunes all over the hedges, ices raw fish with chocolate frosting, stomps on Mrs Rogers's favorite tablecloth, and sprays all the party guests with the hose. But she knows how to do one thing the right way, and that is to make chocolate cupcakes.