Otis Spofford (Cleary Reissue)

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Summary: Perfect for non-readers!
Review: I recently read this book to my 2nd grade class. They absolutely adored Otis. Story time became their favorite time of day. Many have requested their own copies to read independently. I hope this is the beginning of something really big! We are now beginning HENRY HUGGINS

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Summary: Otis' mischievous antics are absolutely enthralling!!
Review: I recently read this book to my 2nd grade class. They absolutely adored Otis. Story time became their favorite time of day. Many have requested their own copies to read independently. I hope this is the beginning of something really big! We are now beginning HENRY HUGGINS

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Summary: A highly reverberating and humorous book!!
Review: I recommend all lovers of children's books to read this captivating classic of the exploits of a mischievous young lad, as only a genius such as Beverly Cleary can explain. It made me want to relive my childhood days!

Once I started to read the book, I just could not put it down. Cleary contiuously maintained my interest throughout the reading of the text. I am sure children in the age range of 9-12 will be able to relate to the title character, Otis Spofford.

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Summary: Always do your school work right!
Review: I thought this book was pretty stupid, although it is written for people slightly below my age level. The book is about a young boy whose purpose in life seems to be the creation of "excitment" (what anyone over the age of 10 would call mischief). The people he aggrevates do get back at him, but he ends up having the last laugh. For these reasons, I would not recomend this book. While there are some parts that will get a chuckle from someone of any age, the book glorifies teasing and unkindness and exhibits people who put very little value in their friendships. There are many books out there that will be more entertaining to children that will also have better moral overtones. As my title says, it is a decent book, but parents can do better than Otis Spoford.

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Summary: A decent kids book
Review: I thought this book was pretty stupid, although it is written for people slightly below my age level. The book is about a young boy whose purpose in life seems to be the creation of "excitment" (what anyone over the age of 10 would call mischief). The people he aggrevates do get back at him, but he ends up having the last laugh. For these reasons, I would not recomend this book. While there are some parts that will get a chuckle from someone of any age, the book glorifies teasing and unkindness and exhibits people who put very little value in their friendships. There are many books out there that will be more entertaining to children that will also have better moral overtones. As my title says, it is a decent book, but parents can do better than Otis Spoford.

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Summary: Perfect for non-readers!
Review: Otis Spofford is a boy just looking for a little excitement. To Otis excitement means upstaging a playacting toreador, shooting spitballs at classmates and even his teacher, sabotaging a class experiment, upstaging a friend while helping the local football hero, and especially chasing and teasing the very prim and proper Ellen Tebbitts. Otis' classmates and teacher warn him that someday he will get his comeuppance for his antics. When Otis takes his teasing of Ellen too far then his comeuppance finally happens.

Beverly Cleary's "Otis Spofford" was one of the funniest books I ever read. I particularly enjoyed Otis' comments on how "dopey" the characters in the books he had to read for school acted. Ms. Cleary obviously wrote "Otis Spofford" for children who felt the same way about reading as Otis did. Otis is no dope and non-readers will love him for it!

Some of Ms. Cleary's older books are sometimes dismissed as being "quaint" or out of date with their 50's settings and families (father works and mom stays at home.) "Otis Spofford" was written in 1961, but Otis has a single mother who owns her own business and they live in an apartment. In some ways Ms. Cleary was ahead of her time; but there is no denying that Otis is a wildboy of the 50's. "Otis Spofford" is an extremely readable and hilarious book featuring the wonderful drawings of illustrator Louis Darling. (I've always preferred Mr. Darling's idealized illustrations of very 50's looking children (the girls in dresses or rolled up pants with moptop hairstyles, the boys in canvas hightop sneakers and bristled haircuts) which are in Ms. Cleary's older books to the illustrations of her more recent books which make some of the characters look rather ugly- Ramona is so much cuter when drawn by Louis Darling than Alan Tiegrin.)

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Summary: This book is GREAT!
Review: This book is all about a young boy who gets in trouble alot. He always seems to enjoy to annoy Ellen Tebbits. His mother is a dance teacher at the dance school close to his home and has no time for him. In the middle of the book his class does a experiment including two mice. At the end of the experiment Ellen get to take one home but gives it to Otis instead. I thought this book was exciting and I was not able to put it down. Even though i told you some of the story get it and read the whole thing.