Little Wolf's Book of Badness

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Summary: a cute, funny book
Review: I loved this book, and i'm in my 40's! Little Wolf's postcards and letters home were so funny, the way he would use a different salutation in every one. I loaned it to a friend at work who is older than i am and she liked it too, so i would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good read.

Rating:
Summary: a cute, funny book
Review: I loved this book, and i'm in my 40's! Little Wolf's postcards and letters home were so funny, the way he would use a different salutation in every one. I loaned it to a friend at work who is older than i am and she liked it too, so i would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good read.

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Summary: Crazy
Review: I think this book is excellent because it is funny and that he uses funny words.

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Summary: Kept an 8-year old then a 10-year-old rapt for an afternoon
Review: In response to the review below, my 8-year old LOVED the "ly" endings to all the salutations in Little Wolf's letters. He also pointed out (with gleeful superiority)how funny it was that various words were mispelled. He was given this book after he thoroughly enjoyed the second in the series. Then his big brother took the book for a long look. Very funny, entertaining, goofy English humor. I love the ink splotches. I just wish they were already in paperback and I'd give them out!

Rating:
Summary: Kept an 8-year old then a 10-year-old rapt for an afternoon
Review: In response to the review below, my 8-year old LOVED the "ly" endings to all the salutations in Little Wolf's letters. He also pointed out (with gleeful superiority)how funny it was that various words were mispelled. He was given this book after he thoroughly enjoyed the second in the series. Then his big brother took the book for a long look. Very funny, entertaining, goofy English humor. I love the ink splotches. I just wish they were already in paperback and I'd give them out!

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Summary: "Boo, shame."
Review: Why do some adults who write children's books purposely misspell words throughout a story in order to try and convince the reader that the tale was actually written by a child? Many kids actually can spell. Why embarrass poor spellers and reinforce bad habits? When I was young, my writing skills were built on a solid foundation of basic English grammar instruction and enhanced by the many, many well-written books I read. When I was a kid, I never saw a book printed with deliberate misspellings--except for my grammar textbooks: the mistakes were in the exercises for the student to find and correct! Worse yet, Little Wolf signs his letters home to his parents and younger brother "Smellybreff" (please!) in many excruciatingly grammar-tortured ways: "Yours fedduply; Yours sherlockholmesly; Yours hohummly; Yours upsettly" --ad nauseum. This attempt at cuteness becomes a contrivance that wears upon the reader's patience. Little Wolf says that camping is his "worst thing." I think he's worst at letter-writing and spelling. To quote Little Wolf, "Boo, shame." The resolution to the story was a long time coming, but in less than two months' time, Little Wolf goes from a faithful son who desperately misses his family and begs to be allowed to return home to an independently wealthy Cunning College graduate who has to bury his exploded uncle's dead body, He then decides to become an entrepreneur schoolmaster himself and invites his family to come live in his "nice and smelly" cellar. What a charming young cub. If you can ignore the crude line-drawings and read this book aloud to your youngster, editing for violent content and things you'd rather your kid didn't learn about yet as you go, you might convince yourself that "Little Wolf's Book of Badness" is a treatise on the positive benefits of organized scouting. Otherwise, leave it on the shelf. Our little cubs stand a great chance of growing into big Bad Wolves without an instruction manual. Don't think I missed the point. I read the final letter in which Little Wolf has an epiphany and realizes that it's better to be good than to be bad. My point is that there are plenty of other books available that each the same lesson, but which won't confuse coung readers with really substandard writing.