Z-Baby (age eight) listens to a lot of books, but I think this is the longest one she’s read herself, not by herself, mind you; I slogged through each and every page with her. But she read it and finished it and enjoyed it.

Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm by Herman Parish. Illustrated by Lynn Sweat.

Z-Baby’s Thoughts:

Amelia Bedelia takes everything literally. Mrs. Page says, “Take our bookmobile . . .” And Amelia Bedelia thinks she means literally “take our bookmobile.”

Amelia Bedelia makes coats (jackets) for the books. A girl named Lisa says that Sam devoured the book, and Amelia Bedelia thinks that an actual person ate the book. But it was a dog named Sam. And there’s one more funny part. When they tell Mrs. Page that Sam devoured the book, Mrs. Page thinks that Lisa means that Sam really, really liked learning form that book. So she asks Lisa, “Did he enjoy it?”

And Lisa says, “He sure did.”

I learned that a thesaurus is a book that has words that mean the same.