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Summary: Perhaps The Best Maid A Family Could Have
Review: "Amelia Bedelia" has entertained children, and even adults, for many years. Its silliness and humor are as fresh now as it was back when first published. In this first book, which spurned numerous other "Amelia Bedelia" stories, we see that Amelia is a maid who goes to work for an upper class family. And no ordinary maid, mind you. She is a peculair and singular maid. She is given a list of chores to do while the homeonwers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, go out. One chore she must do is "Put the lights out" when she is finished in the living room. To most other maids, perhaps, they would understand this chore to mean "turn off the lights". But not Amelia. She thinks the Rogers' want her take all the light bulbs out of the house to "air out". As a child, "Amelia Bedelia" continuously entertained me. And if it had not been for her lemon meringue pie, the Rogers' would have fired her for her incompetence. But with one bite, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers forgot about her mistakes, and kept her on permantently as their maid, leading to other delightful "Amelia bedelia" stories, and more silly mishaps and misunderstandings.
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Summary: Perhaps The Best Maid A Family Could Have
Review: "Amelia Bedelia" has entertained children, and even adults, for many years. Its silliness and humor are as fresh now as it was back when first published. In this first book, which spurned numerous other "Amelia Bedelia" stories, we see that Amelia is a maid who goes to work for an upper class family. And no ordinary maid, mind you. She is a peculair and singular maid. She is given a list of chores to do while the homeonwers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, go out. One chore she must do is "Put the lights out" when she is finished in the living room. To most other maids, perhaps, they would understand this chore to mean "turn off the lights". But not Amelia. She thinks the Rogers' want her take all the light bulbs out of the house to "air out". As a child, "Amelia Bedelia" continuously entertained me. And if it had not been for her lemon meringue pie, the Rogers' would have fired her for her incompetence. But with one bite, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers forgot about her mistakes, and kept her on permantently as their maid, leading to other delightful "Amelia bedelia" stories, and more silly mishaps and misunderstandings.
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Summary: Amelia Bedelia
Review: Amelia Bedelia is a maid and she does every thing that some one says and she does it wrong.
When Amelia Bedelia was reading a list to do she did it wrong like when it said to take the light bulbs out and guess were she put them?
When Amelia Bedelia read to change the towels she just cut the towels to change the way the figure looked.I wonder if the people that lived there got mad?
Iliked this book because that was funny when Amelia Bedelia put the light bulb outside but on the paper it said to put the light bulb out and she probably said to put them outside.
Irecmmend this to some one who likes funny stories because this is a funny book that I enjoy.
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Summary: Amelia Bedelia
Review: Amelia Bedelia is a very funny book. It makes you think about what you say. It shows that you may say something and yet what you meant may not be understood as you would have liked. The comical Amelia is a well thought up character. The whole book was very well thought up.
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Summary: Loads of Fun
Review: Amelia Bedelia is a well-meaning maid, who takes everything literally. On her first day of work at the Rogers household, she is given a list of chores and an admonition from Mrs. Rogers to "...do just what the list says". That's when all the fun starts. The first item on the list says: "Change the towels in the bathroom". Most of us wouldn't think twice about such a request. We would simply pull out fresh towels and replace the dirty ones. But not Amelia! She can't figure out why Mrs. Rogers would want to change such beautiful towels. Nevertheless, she pulls out her scissors and starts "changing" them! Mrs Rogers also instructs Amelia to trim the fat off the steak and dress the chicken. Within minutes the steak fat is beautifully decorated with ribbon and lace, and when it is time to "dress" the bird, Amelia cannot decide if Mrs. Rogers prefers a "he" chicken or a 'she" chicken!! In the end we learn that there is one thing Amelia can do with flair (and no instructions), and this makes her even more endearing to us all. Amelia Bedelia is a book about interpretation and literal meanings. This is a fun resource for teaching communication skills. Very cute.
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Summary: Amelia on the loose! Get ready for gales of laughter!
Review: Amelia Bedelia is a whimsical character who translates everything quite literally. Ameilia works at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. Rogers makes a list of chores and tells Amelia to just do what the list says. When Ameilia reads, "Dust the furniture," she thinks, what a silly thing to do, and then proceeds to stand on the divan and shake the powder puff all over the room. Next, Amelia sits down with pen and paper and "draws the curtains" since Mrs. Rogers gave instructions to follow the list. Throughout the day Amelia is surprised by the list of instructions left by her employer but is dutiful inspite of her misgivings. When the Rogers return they are flabbergasted by the completion of the chore list. Mrs. Rogers is very angry until Mr. Rogers discovers the wonderful gift that Amelia has. They learn to give her the appropriate directions because Amelia can do one thing perfectly. Kids love the mistakes that Amelia makes. And they love seeing that even a character like Amelia has a wonderful talent. Enjoy!
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Summary: Fun. Literally.
Review: Amelia Bedelia is starting her first day at her new job as a maid for the Rodgers. Since they can't be home, they've left a list of simple instructions for her to follow. Should be simple, right? After all, they only want her to draw the drapes, change the towels, and trim the fat on the meat.... These were a big hit in my family when I was growing up, mainly because we all had a literal minded sense of humor. I don't know where the author came up with all these ideas, but they are hilarious. Kids who are figuring out that we don't always mean literally what we say will enjoy these books. Grown ups will smile at how complicated our language can truly be sometimes. Either way, everyone in your family is sure to enjoy spending time around this maid.
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Summary: Fun. Literally.
Review: Amelia Bedelia is starting her first day at her new job as a maid for the Rodgers. Since they can't be home, they've left a list of simple instructions for her to follow. Should be simple, right? After all, they only want her to draw the drapes, change the towels, and trim the fat on the meat.... These were a big hit in my family when I was growing up, mainly because we all had a literal minded sense of humor. I don't know where the author came up with all these ideas, but they are hilarious. Kids who are figuring out that we don't always mean literally what we say will enjoy these books. Grown ups will smile at how complicated our language can truly be sometimes. Either way, everyone in your family is sure to enjoy spending time around this maid.
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Summary: I can never stop laughing about Amelia Bedelia!
Review: Amelia Bedelia is the funniest book that I ever seen in my entire life. My favorite part of the book was when Amelia Bedelia dressed the chicken in overalls and socks! I couldn't stop laughing about the chicken that was dressed. I love Amelia Bedelia books they are so funny that I could laugh even when I was reading the book. I really think that Amelia Bedelia is the funniest book in the world! They are so funny that even when I was done with the book I still was laughing! I still think about Amelia Bedelia at school.
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Summary: Dated and dull
Review: Amelia Bedelia might have been fun in 1965 but the whole series is excruciating now. Your child only needs to read one of these books to get the whole Amelia deal - the other titles in this series are just more of the same.
There are many book series that kids can get nowadays - Junie B Jones, Horrible Harry and so on. They're much more interesting than Amelia.
I once read a review of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat that described it as a 'karate chop on the weary little world of Dick, Jane and Spot.' It wasn't until my kids read Amelia Bedelia that I realised that examples of this weary little world were still being published. Long live the Seussian Revolution, I say.
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