Petunia

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Summary: Proud Petunia Pleases
Review: I was saddened to see that Petunia was out of print. I wanted to order a copy for each of the first grade students who I worked on this class play with this year. The book has a great moral to it, is hilarious to the younger set and has such cute illustrations. I remembered this book from my childhood and will order an out-of-print copy for my son. Any publishers out there--"Please reprint the Petunia books!"

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Summary: class play renews love for this classic
Review: I was saddened to see that Petunia was out of print. I wanted to order a copy for each of the first grade students who I worked on this class play with this year. The book has a great moral to it, is hilarious to the younger set and has such cute illustrations. I remembered this book from my childhood and will order an out-of-print copy for my son. Any publishers out there--"Please reprint the Petunia books!"

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Summary: Petunia is perfect!
Review: Petunia finds a book, and because she carries the book around, she thinks she's smart. However, when Petunia starts passing out advice based on her "knowledge", the barnyard is ripe for one calamity after another. Petunia and her friends are colorful and comical in the illustrations, and the problems her newfound intellect creates are clever and funny. And, it couldn't be a truly good children's book without a truly good lesson at the end - a little moral about books and their value. Perfection.

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Summary: Proud Petunia Pleases
Review: Petunia is a silly goose who finds a book and believes she'll be wiser if she's seen carrying it around. And the other barnyard animals actually think she *is* wiser because of it. The thing of it is, she's still just a silly goose, who gets her friends into all sorts of scrapes.

"Petunia" is a pleaser but gets a little too philosophical in the last two pages. That's okay-- the first pages and clean 1950s illustrations make up for it. A classic.

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Summary: Childhood favorite
Review: Petunia was a fourth grade favorite of mine many years ago. Her "wisdom" was so cleverly revealed in the end that I kept the book checked out of the school library all year long.

Rating:
Summary: Childhood favorite
Review: Petunia was a fourth grade favorite of mine many years ago. Her "wisdom" was so cleverly revealed in the end that I kept the book checked out of the school library all year long.