Herman Parish’s Amelia Bedelia Makes a Splash is a funny summer camp story for 6 year olds about a girl who takes every word exactly as it’s said.<\/p>\n
Amelia Bedelia had her summer all planned. Then her mum shares some news over dinner. The camp she went to as a girl, Camp Echo Woods, is about to close for good, and a place has come up for this last summer. Amelia Bedelia is going. For eight whole weeks!<\/p>\n
She’s not happy about it (she’s actually furious). So her parents make a deal. They’ll visit at the halfway point, and if she still hates it, she can come home.<\/p>\n
Then, right at the edge of town, the bus stops for one more camper. A tall girl called Alice sits down next to her, and suddenly things look up. There’s a cabin of new girls whose names all start with A, a counsellor called Peggy who sings everyone awake, fire lighting with flint and steel, and a night lying out under the Milky Way.<\/p>\n
And of course there are mix-ups. Amelia Bedelia hears everything literally. When the camp owner, Mrs. Evans, mentions her late husband, Amelia Bedelia offers to save him a plate of spaghetti in case he turns up. And when she’s asked for a splash of juice at dinner, well, you can probably guess where the title comes from.<\/p>\n
This is a proper chapter book, with jokes on nearly every page. Half the fun is spotting each misunderstanding before the grown-ups do. Mrs. Evans talks in old sayings (heebie-jeebies, collywobbles, the life of Riley), so for once Amelia Bedelia isn’t the only one who’s confused.<\/p>\n
Underneath the jokes there’s a lovely thread about homesickness. Amelia Bedelia makes a mark on her cabin wall for every day that passes. Anyone who’s been nervous about a sleepover or a school trip will understand. Watching her slowly start to love the place she didn’t want to go is really sweet.<\/p>\n
It’s American, so there are a few words that might need a quick explanation, like s’mores and bunks and the camp songs. None of it gets in the way.<\/p>\n
If they fall for Alice as much as Amelia Bedelia does, Amelia Bedelia Digs In takes the two friends to the seaside together, with surfboards, a pirate ship in the middle of a roundabout and her cousin Jason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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