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Summary: A curious freckle quest
Review: Judy Blume's "Freckle Juice" is a short tale for young readers, with illustrations by Sonia O. Lisker. Blume tells the story of Andrew Marcus, a 2nd grade student who wishes he had freckles. Things get freaky when a classmate promises to sell him a "secret recipe for freckle juice."Blume taps effectively into the culture of children's folk magic and urban legend with this tale. I was a bit turned off, however, by Blume's portrayal of Andrew's shrewish, hysterical, overbearing mother. After finishing the book, I thought, "When this kid grows up, he's going to have some serious issues with women!" I also didn't like the fact that the "villain" of the story essentially lies, swindles, and violates classroom discipline and suffers no consequences. Still, "Freckle Juice" is a fun story with a memorable "gross-out" factor.
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Summary: A curious freckle quest
Review: Judy Blume's "Freckle Juice" is a short tale for young readers, with illustrations by Sonia O. Lisker. Blume tells the story of Andrew Marcus, a 2nd grade student who wishes he had freckles. Things get freaky when a classmate promises to sell him a "secret recipe for freckle juice." Blume taps effectively into the culture of children's folk magic and urban legend with this tale. I was a bit turned off, however, by Blume's portrayal of Andrew's shrewish, hysterical, overbearing mother. After finishing the book, I thought, "When this kid grows up, he's going to have some serious issues with women!" I also didn't like the fact that the "villain" of the story essentially lies, swindles, and violates classroom discipline and suffers no consequences. Still, "Freckle Juice" is a fun story with a memorable "gross-out" factor.
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Summary: Decent plot but hard read-aloud
Review: My thoughts reading this to myself were that Freckle Juice is a fun early chapter book. I thought it fit in well with today's market. Frankly, it's better than many of the serial books that children are zipping through these days. The writing fairly well-paced for young readers and the dialogue is decent. My thoughts reading it aloud to my children were that it could have been cut by half, my kids were bored and many sentences were cumbersome. It felt like there were many little add-ons that distracted my children instead of holding their attention. Yet my 7-year-old daughter approved it and we enjoyed the clever ending.
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Summary: Sweet And Very Funny...
Review: See story summary above. Wonderful story about a grade school boy who desperately wants to look like someone else, and in the end learns to love himself just the way he is. Wonderful way for children to learn respect and self-esteem. Should be required reading for grades K-3.
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Summary: Ms. Woody's Class Book Review
Review: The characters in the story are very silly and amusing. Our class learned how you can make freckles by reading this book. This book is a very funny book because of the things that one of the characters does in the story. We learned that you shouldn't trust all people. Everyone learned that you really can't make real freckles. Read this book because it's really funny.
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Summary: hahaha
Review: The first time I read this book, I was in Elementary, and had lots of freckles. I loved it. It was really funny when he drank the "freckle juice" and also when he wrote freckles on his face. I loved the end....well, read it yourself!
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Summary: hahaha
Review: The first time I read this book, I was in Elementary, and had lots of freckles. I loved it. It was really funny when he drank the "freckle juice" and also when he wrote freckles on his face. I loved the end....well, read it yourself!
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Summary: Reviews from seven-year-olds
Review: The following reviews were written by four 7-year-olds in aclassroom book club I led. We studied reviews from Amazon.com beforethey wrote theirs to see how there can be many different opinions on one title: Rachel says: This book is about a boy named Andrew Marcus and how he wants freckles. I think it is funny because when he gets sick and his mother sends him to bed, she gives him two spoonfuls of stuff that tasted like peppermint and he dreams that a monster makes him drink two quarts of freckle juice three times a day. I would recommend this book to a friend because it is funny. David says: This book is about a boy named Andrew Marcus and how he want freckles. I like this book better than The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo, also by Judy Blume, because it was more fun to read and I like the story better. I recommend a friend read this book. Ashleigh says: This book is about Andrew wanting freckles like Nicky Lane. I think this book is very funny because I like drawing freckles on my face. I want everyone to have this book. Annie says: Andrew Marcus wanted freckles like Nicky Lane. He put freckles on with a magic marker but his teacher, Miss Kelly, gave him soap and told him he was good without freckles. I don't encourage yo to buy this book with your money because it is not a good story. If you want to see what I mean, check it out at the library.
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Summary: Fantastic Freckles
Review: This book is a good first chapter book for 2nd graders. There are 40 pages (7 of which are full page illustrations) There are more pages with half page illustrations. The book is entertaining. The particular book my kids read does not have color illustrations - the illustrations are in black and white, which my kids complained about. The story line is good. The moral of the story is "we all have things about ourselves we would like to change." It's about self acceptance. My 5th grader read this book, but he wasn't particularly thrilled about it. My 3rd grader liked it much better. There are a lot of color descriptions in the book and it would probably be better served with color illustrations. That is why I reduced it 1 star. We compensated for this by drawing color pictures for the pages that had good color descriptions. This is a good story, I remember reading it in elementary school. You don't forget this one soon for some reason, probably because it's one of the first chapter books kids read and, in my case, it was a leap above the "Pug, Jan, and Ted" of my younger days.
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Summary: Comical entertainment
Review: This book is a good first chapter book for 2nd graders. There are 40 pages (7 of which are full page illustrations) There are more pages with half page illustrations. The book is entertaining. The particular book my kids read does not have color illustrations - the illustrations are in black and white, which my kids complained about. The story line is good. The moral of the story is "we all have things about ourselves we would like to change." It's about self acceptance. My 5th grader read this book, but he wasn't particularly thrilled about it. My 3rd grader liked it much better. There are a lot of color descriptions in the book and it would probably be better served with color illustrations. That is why I reduced it 1 star. We compensated for this by drawing color pictures for the pages that had good color descriptions. This is a good story, I remember reading it in elementary school. You don't forget this one soon for some reason, probably because it's one of the first chapter books kids read and, in my case, it was a leap above the "Pug, Jan, and Ted" of my younger days.
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