![]() ![]() It all began when her best friend Margaret let Clementine cut her hair in the school bathroom. Finally, a character that can challenge Ramona Quimby for her throne.Ĭlementine can tell you right from the start when her week started going poorly. Engaging, mischevious, never ever dull, and topped off by illustrations by Marla Frazee, Pennypacker's early chapter book, "Clementine", is everything you could hope for in a story for kids. I mean, how am I supposed to resist that? What we have here is one of the most amusing characters to grace the pages of children's literature in years. Sorry, Sara, but how could I help it? We're dealing with a book where if the infant brother of the main character says, "Go for a wok?" to her, he's referring to a game in which she puts him in the family's wok and spins him around real fast. I blame Sara Pennypacker personally for the fact that what was once a lovely little ARC is now a dog-eared-to-death series of bound pages. So to stop myself from this habit I've only been dog-earing the Advanced Readers Copies of books I review. If ANYONE knows not to dog-ear pages it should be me. If I'm reading a children's book (which, 19 out of 20 times is usually the case) and I hit on a passage that I think is especially amusing, I'll dog-ear the page. ![]()
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