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Summary: The funniest book I have ever read
Review: I think anyone who likes funy books will like this one it is so funny I almost laughed right out of my shoes. So don't just sit there order it before it is on back order.
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Summary: 9 year old M.A.Boston area 2002
Review: I think this is a HAVE TO READ book. It's about a girl who's parents get lost at sea. Every day she goes down to the beach to look for her parents. She goes to live with Miss Perfidy. Her Uncle Jack is a person who tries to sell peoples houses. One day her Uncle Jack comes to Cole Harbour, where Primrose lives, and reluctantly adopts her. She walks to and from school every day. Her teacher, Miss Honeycut, tells Primrose's entire class that Primrose will start mourning any day while Primrose is in the libray. Some things change Primroses life forever, like the time Primroses got run over by a truck and she ended up in the hospital without a toe, so I strongly recomend this book.
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Summary: Book Review from a 4th grader
Review: I thought the book Everything on a Waffle was great. Primrose Squarp is an 11 year old girl who looses her parents at the beginning of the book. The story starts with Primrose and her mother together and her father out at sea. When her mom finds out that a typhoon happens, she is so worried she goes down to the dock and tries to rescue him. She leaves Primrose with the neighbor Mrs. Perfidy. Instead of rescuing Primroses father, she also vanishes.The rest of the book is filled with adventures. As I read this book it reminded me of the Pippi Longstocking stories. Both Pippi and Primrose are brave, smart, alone alot of the time and never give up what they are trying to acheive. Primrose lives with many different people. My favorite was Uncle Jack. She makes friends with an interesting person named Miss Bowzer. Miss Bowzer runs a restaurant named "The Girl on the Red Swing". She serves every meal she makes on a waffle. For example, she served broiled swaordfish on a waffle to Uncle Jack. She also lost body parts in some of her adventures. You'll have to read the book to find out which ones. One of my favorite things about the book is that the author ended each chapter with a recipe. So there are 15 new recipes to try. Each recipe has something to do with something mentioned in the chapter. My favorite recipe is Aunt Tilly's Lemon Sugar Cookies. I will not tell you how the book ends, you will have to read it and find out. I am a 10 year old girl that loves to read and I think that this book is especially good for this age but really any age will love it. My mom read it and liked it too. Enjoy the book!
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Summary: Everything Served on a WAFFLE?
Review: If you are looking for an interesting, funny, realistic fiction book, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath is a PERFECT book for you!
The story takes place in modern times in Coal Harbor, British Columbia, Canada.
The main character is an eleven-year-old girl called Primrose Squarp. She is helpful, thoughtful, and persistent all the time, because she never gives up thinking that her parents aren't dead when her parents were lost at the sea.
One June day, Primrose's parents were lost at the sea because of the large storm. Everyday she went down to the docks to watch the boats come in. Primrose knew that her parents were alive and waiting for someone to rescue them on an island somewhere, even though everyone in her town thought that they were dead.
For a while Primrose lived with Miss Perfidy who smelled like a mothball, but Uncle Jack came to take care of Primrose. He was a gentle and cheery man and she enjoyed the life with him but some problems happen. After that she was sent to the foster parents, Evie and Bert. She met many warmhearted people but she experienced many troublesome events. She lost her baby toe by bumping into the truck and the tip of her ring finger by getting stuck in a net, and also lost all of her sweaters her mom knit. However, she always thought positively about everything. Primrose often went to her favorite restaurant, "The Girl on the Red Swing." It was Miss. Bowzer's, and there everything was served on a waffle! She was very friendly to Primrose and taught her some cooking. She always helped her and understood her.
One day Primrose went to that restaurant with Uncle Jack, Evie and Bert. While they were eating, they heard someone scream, "Fire!" Where? The townhouses Uncle Jack had sold were on fire. Everything was burning. Almost everyone was rescued but someone was in yet, so Uncle Jack went into the fire to help. One who helped out was Miss Honeycut. Uncle Jack had to stay in the hospital because of injured, though he was fine. Miss Perfidy died in a few days before he got out of the hospital, because she was very old and sick.
The week before Christmas, Uncle Jack got out of the hospital. Primrose and he took walks on the beach. At that time, what do you think happened? Unbelievable!
I would recommend this book, because in this book there were many events going on at a time and there were many big problems! I guess there was at least one bit of trouble in each chapter! I decided to stop reading at next chapter once but I couldn't, because there were many troubles going on! There were several kinds of characters. At some parts author talks about different kinds of characters together, so the story gets funnier and funnier! For the star rating, I would give five stars! Now, you want to read this book! Right? To find out what did happen at the end, read this book right now! I love this book, and so I think you will too!
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Summary: Everything On A Waffle
Review: Imagine that your parents are lost in the turbulent, stormy waters of the sea and you, only 11 year old, and you are the only one in your community who believes that they will ever be coming back. Well, that's exactly what happens to Primrose Squarp in Polly Horvath's Newberry Honor book, Everything On A Waffle. Primrose is not the real adventurous type, she's just trying to live a normal in the small town of Coal Harbor. When you don't seem to settle in one house and there's no one to support her in her beliefs. I think Polly Horvath's message is to believe, miracles happen. Not once did Primrose doubt her parents return, while everyone else could easily say "give up, Primrose your parents are dead" as easily as a cat meows. I enjoyed reading this book because at the end of every chapter they gave you a recipe to a food that they mentioned in the chapter. I think this is a good book for ages ten and up. I give this book 4 ½ stars because it could use that little, incanting something that a 5 star writing has. With an interesting plot and a most surprising ending, you'll love this book.
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Summary: Greatness is just a sneeze away
Review: In the February 2004 issue of "School Library Journal", Polly Horvath had this to say about her book, "Everything On a Waffle": "The story almost rings but not quite. Letting it go too soon is one of my great regrets". Perhaps this explains why this is, to me, the most frustrating book I've read in a long time. Not frustrating because it is bad or frustrating because it is unreadable. It is frustrating because it is incomplete. What you have here is the shell of what could well be an interesting and scintillating novel. Reading the first few chapters I had the distinct feeling that I was missing something. To read, "Everything On a Waffle", is to float on the surface of a series of grand ideas without ever getting a good look at the depths beneath. The plot, as it is, concerns the young Primrose Squarp and her single-handed refusal to believe her parents are dead after being lost at sea. As the Library of Congress describes it, Primrose, "recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life...". This is true to a certain extent. Horvath is definitely intent on showing how each human being's life is a separate interesting creation and how we shouldn't write off anyone, no matter how odd. I like Horvath's characters. I like her ideas and her wonderful sentences like, "Uncle Jack looked like a pig, albeit a lean, good-looking pig, whereas Miss Honeycut looked more like a turtle". I like so much of this book that it absolutely kills me that it should be so sparse and spare. Plot points, when the author deems them important, suddenly appear out of the blue without a proper entrance or exit. I had to reread the entire first chapter twice, being very careful to read every single word of the text. God help you if you decide to skip a sentence here or there. This is not a large book and gigantic plot twists usually include two slapdash phrases, hidden in slightly longer paragraphs. The story as it stands is fine, though a little odd. Here we have a character who believes her parents are alive and is relentlessly mocked by the townspeople for her refusal to grieve. Honest to goodness, I thought the book would end with Primrose's final acceptance that her parents really were gone and she should stop daydreaming and injuring herself by accident (which she does with frightening regularity) and instead rejoin life. Instead, a faux-happy ending is tacked on, suddenly turning a rather good and realistic kid's book into a fairy tale. I didn't want to read a fairy tale, Miss Horvath. I wanted to read a great story, and you came so close to delivering the goods I could cry. Please, in the future don't settle for a falsely everything-is-fine tra-la tra-la ending. Give us the tough good climax we, your readers, know you can deliver. "Everything On a Waffle" is fine reading. It falls short of great by a tail.
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Summary: Greatness is just a sneeze away
Review: In the February 2004 issue of "School Library Journal", Polly Horvath had this to say about her book, "Everything On a Waffle": "The story almost rings but not quite. Letting it go too soon is one of my great regrets". Perhaps this explains why this is, to me, the most frustrating book I've read in a long time. Not frustrating because it is bad or frustrating because it is unreadable. It is frustrating because it is incomplete. What you have here is the shell of what could well be an interesting and scintillating novel. Reading the first few chapters I had the distinct feeling that I was missing something. To read, "Everything On a Waffle", is to float on the surface of a series of grand ideas without ever getting a good look at the depths beneath. The plot, as it is, concerns the young Primrose Squarp and her single-handed refusal to believe her parents are dead after being lost at sea. As the Library of Congress describes it, Primrose, "recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life...". This is true to a certain extent. Horvath is definitely intent on showing how each human being's life is a separate interesting creation and how we shouldn't write off anyone, no matter how odd. I like Horvath's characters. I like her ideas and her wonderful sentences like, "Uncle Jack looked like a pig, albeit a lean, good-looking pig, whereas Miss Honeycut looked more like a turtle". I like so much of this book that it absolutely kills me that it should be so sparse and spare. Plot points, when the author deems them important, suddenly appear out of the blue without a proper entrance or exit. I had to reread the entire first chapter twice, being very careful to read every single word of the text. God help you if you decide to skip a sentence here or there. This is not a large book and gigantic plot twists usually include two slapdash phrases, hidden in slightly longer paragraphs. The story as it stands is fine, though a little odd. Here we have a character who believes her parents are alive and is relentlessly mocked by the townspeople for her refusal to grieve. Honest to goodness, I thought the book would end with Primrose's final acceptance that her parents really were gone and she should stop daydreaming and injuring herself by accident (which she does with frightening regularity) and instead rejoin life. Instead, a faux-happy ending is tacked on, suddenly turning a rather good and realistic kid's book into a fairy tale. I didn't want to read a fairy tale, Miss Horvath. I wanted to read a great story, and you came so close to delivering the goods I could cry. Please, in the future don't settle for a falsely everything-is-fine tra-la tra-la ending. Give us the tough good climax we, your readers, know you can deliver. "Everything On a Waffle" is fine reading. It falls short of great by a tail.
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Summary: MY REVIEW
Review: Just think! You are an 11 year old in Coal Harbor, British Columbia, and your parents are lost at sea. Ok this sounds like a completely ridiculous book right? Well it isn't, Everything on a Waffle is an imaginative, creative, and inspiring book by Polly Horvath. Within the 150 pages tells the story Primrose. Primrose is a girl who is teased and made fun of because in her heart believes in that here parents are alive where they are. Primrose like one place better than any other, The Girl on the Red Swing a small restaurant where anything you order always comes on a waffle. Primrose through out the book is trying to find her place in the world. Primrose lived in many places through out the book, first with Miss Perfidy then with her uncle jack then after that she was in foster care. Standing there next to a very forgetful old woman Primrose was in the of her sentence, when an alarm doctors and nurses rushing in and pout of the room. "Miss Perfidy left the room in the middle of my sentence, permanently." I recommend this book to anyone with parents lost at sea. The reading level is 9 and older. I learned 1 major thing, to beleive in the impossible.
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Summary: Everything on a Waffle- Daniel Stanford and Eddie Stevenson
Review: Polly Horvath's Everything on a Waffle is the story of Primrose Squarp, an eleven year old girl from Coal Harbor, British Columbia. Having lost her parents in a sea storm, she is certain they are still alive somewhere on a deserted island. Primrose is sent to live with her neighbor until her Uncle Jack agrees to watch over her. Her uncle is a real estate salesman and a city developer. While living with Uncle Jack, Primrose gets into all types of trouble. She loses a toe, gets involved in a automobile accident, and hears ghosts playing hockey. Primrose makes friends with Mrs. Bowzer, the owner of a restaurant that specializes in putting everything on a waffle. Throughout the story, Primrose encounters many adventures, both good and bad, while managing to keep a very optimistic view of life. She loses her parents, has to live with her neighbor, and then her uncle. Then, she is put into foster care before finally being reunited with her parents.
Everything on a Waffle is a very witty look at small town life. Primrose views every situation with her unique point of view and manages to make the best of each situation she is put into. Many of us could learn a great deal from Primrose and her ability to overcome some of life's greatest struggles.
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Summary: eccentricity rings a bit false
Review: Primrose is sure her parents haven't perished at sea, but still she's orphaned in a small fishing village in British Columbia. Quirky in language and character and loosely structured in plot, this story entertained me slightly, but wore thin after a while because I didn't feel much of a crisis for the main character despite her circumstances. I always knew her parents would return, and the zany grown-ups in her life after a while failed to entertain. The diction/vocab is a little older than the interest level of the story. So so, despite some book awards. ages 10+
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