Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck

by Herman Parish

Overview

Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck is a funny I Can Read adventure, starring Amelia Bedelia as a young girl, that is just right for beginning readers. Amelia Bedelia, America's favorite housekeeper, has been making readers laugh for fifty years!

America's favorite housekeeper investigates all kinds of good luck and bad luck in this beginning reader starring Amelia Bedelia as a young girl. Why is it unlucky for a black cat to cross your path? Why does a horseshoe bring good luck? If you step on a crack, will you really break your mother's back? Amelia Bedelia, who always takes things literally, tries to understand common superstitions in this funny book about friendship

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062221285
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/27/2013
Series:	I Can Read Book 1 Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Herman Parish was in the fourth grade when his aunt, Peggy Parish, wrote the first book about Amelia Bedelia. The author lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Lynne Avril has illustrated all the stories about young Amelia Bedelia. The artist lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Editorial Reviews

A young Amelia Bedelia accidentally breaks a mirror as she is getting ready to go to school, and soon finds out that it means she can expect seven years of bad luck. Her friend tells her to pick up a penny for good luck, so she picks up her friend Penny. Since that does not work, her friends at school try to help her find a four-leaf clover, a horseshoe, or a rabbit’s foot, but they do not find any of these. Her teacher helps her by listing superstitions about bad and good luck, and recounting her own childhood belief that if she stepped on a crack, it would break her mother’s back. Amelia’s teacher explains that it was not true, just as breaking a mirror was not bad luck. Her neighbor, Mrs. Adams, tells her that knocking on wood three times should help her with her luck. She also gives Amelia a new mirror, causing the girl to feel like she is the luckiest person in the world. This book is written for beginning readers (level 1) and is part of the “I Can Read” series. The sentences are simple, and the illustrations are plentiful and fun. The story is amusing, and beginning readers will enjoy reading how Amelia works through her predicament with a little help from her family and friends. Reviewer: Vicki Foote AGERANGE: Ages 4 to 8.

Children's Literature - Vicki Foote