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From: Linda Sherouse <shfamily216>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:05:55 +0800
One of the funniest books I remember reading was "Hawkins" by Barbara Brooks Wallace. When a ten-year-old boy finds a coupon, wedged in a spiked iron fence, with only the magical word, "FREE" and a space for his name and address, he can't resist temptation and mails it away. He wins a personal butler who is quite British and very proper. Hawkins treats him as he would any client and the ten-year-old learns the drawbacks and benefits of a personal assistant at his age.
It's sequel, "Hawkins and the Soccer Solution" (I think that was the title) is not as funny as the first. I remember reading the original tale to many classes and the fifth graders really caught most of the humor! When the spiked iron fence comes back into the story later and the young boy finds himself caught on the spikes at the top, many students laughed, gasped, and then stopped, wondering if it was okay to laugh at a somewhat serious predicament.
My second funniest favorite has already been mentioned: Pinkwater's "Fat Men From Outer Space." While my copy is very well worn, it still delights many readers and has served as a charming trick to entice even the most reluctant reader.
Linda
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:05:55 +0800
One of the funniest books I remember reading was "Hawkins" by Barbara Brooks Wallace. When a ten-year-old boy finds a coupon, wedged in a spiked iron fence, with only the magical word, "FREE" and a space for his name and address, he can't resist temptation and mails it away. He wins a personal butler who is quite British and very proper. Hawkins treats him as he would any client and the ten-year-old learns the drawbacks and benefits of a personal assistant at his age.
It's sequel, "Hawkins and the Soccer Solution" (I think that was the title) is not as funny as the first. I remember reading the original tale to many classes and the fifth graders really caught most of the humor! When the spiked iron fence comes back into the story later and the young boy finds himself caught on the spikes at the top, many students laughed, gasped, and then stopped, wondering if it was okay to laugh at a somewhat serious predicament.
My second funniest favorite has already been mentioned: Pinkwater's "Fat Men From Outer Space." While my copy is very well worn, it still delights many readers and has served as a charming trick to entice even the most reluctant reader.
Linda
-- Linda D. Sherouse, M.Ed., M.L.I.S. Educational Consultant 182 Mill Rd./ P.O. Box 1197 North Hampton, NH 0386297 Home (603) 964T89 Cell (603) 502U60 Adjunct Faculty URI, Graduate School of Library and Information StudiesReceived on Sun 05 May 2002 06:05:55 AM CDT
