Congratulations, Miss. Malarkey! By Judy Finchler and Kevin O'Mally
This book is about a teacher who is keeping a little secret from her class. The students all get worried by how she is acting. Finally she has reveals that she will be getting married and that the whole class is invited to join her at her wedding that saturday.
As far as kids books go, this plot was not at all interesting to me. The only part that I thought was good about this book is that is gives you a little glimpse into how people of different cultures get married all over the world and what some of the traditions are. Oh and there is a little bit of suspense about what is happening to Miss. Malarkey but I can't see why children would be interested really in a book about a teacher who is engaged. Maybe...
an interesting little part of the book is for us older readers to enjoy. The names of the characters are funny. First there is obviously Miss. Malarkey, there is also principal Wiggins, and a Mr. Buffup and the fiancee is bob Fulla so the big joke at the end (a very corny joke) is that the kids ask if they have to call her miss fulla-malarkey.
The pictures were a little different because sometimes they were from a different view than normal. What I mean is that it looked really zoomed in on a face or on one page the wedding invitation.
It made the teacher look like a hero to the children which is always fun! The boy gets so worried that there is something wrong with Miss. M or that she might be leaving that he can't even concentrate in school. It doens't help that all his friends are talking about it too. That reminds me of middle school also because once a rumor gets going it spreads like wildfire and people always assume the worst. Of course what you hear from your friends "has to be true" since they said it so you pass that information along and it spirals down from there.
This book is about a teacher who is keeping a little secret from her class. The students all get worried by how she is acting. Finally she has reveals that she will be getting married and that the whole class is invited to join her at her wedding that saturday.
As far as kids books go, this plot was not at all interesting to me. The only part that I thought was good about this book is that is gives you a little glimpse into how people of different cultures get married all over the world and what some of the traditions are. Oh and there is a little bit of suspense about what is happening to Miss. Malarkey but I can't see why children would be interested really in a book about a teacher who is engaged. Maybe...
an interesting little part of the book is for us older readers to enjoy. The names of the characters are funny. First there is obviously Miss. Malarkey, there is also principal Wiggins, and a Mr. Buffup and the fiancee is bob Fulla so the big joke at the end (a very corny joke) is that the kids ask if they have to call her miss fulla-malarkey.
The pictures were a little different because sometimes they were from a different view than normal. What I mean is that it looked really zoomed in on a face or on one page the wedding invitation.
It made the teacher look like a hero to the children which is always fun! The boy gets so worried that there is something wrong with Miss. M or that she might be leaving that he can't even concentrate in school. It doens't help that all his friends are talking about it too. That reminds me of middle school also because once a rumor gets going it spreads like wildfire and people always assume the worst. Of course what you hear from your friends "has to be true" since they said it so you pass that information along and it spirals down from there.
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