Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish, Fritz Siebel, Barbara Siebel Thomas, Wallace Tripp · first published 1963
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A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
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As a kid, loved: Harry the Dirty Dog series Amelia Bedelia series Little Toot Katy and the Big Snow Tikki Tikki Tembo Eloise Babar series Others from Weekly Reader - including Gus was a Friendly Ghost, Be Nice to Spiders, The Mystery of the Great Swamp,…
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?” ↗Amelia Bedelia should be required reading at some point. She's such a special character!
on “Auto-Antonyms” ↗…you originally pronounced it. But if you don't know what sake is, then it will take a lot of context to fill in the meaning for you. And a lot of learning is pitting words against expected meanings. Amelia Bedelia is a great set of books that go into this. Such that, yes, you almost certainly have to use context to really get the meaning of words, but you need to know how to decode words for a lot of that context…
on “Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics” ↗My 6 year old loves the 2020's-era Amelia Bedelia books. In this reimagining, they are basically 100-140 page long novellas with a lot of pictures accompanying them. Amelia is a child (3rd grade possibly? Not sure exactly) and she doesn't understand…
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?” ↗…cheap.) So the way I see it, libraries are good for reading what people popularly read. They're good for introducing our children to Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, or Lord of the Rings, or Dr. Seuss, or Amelia Bedelia.
on “Weeding the Worst Library Books” ↗The Amelia Bedelia series of children's books get tons of mileage from these types of words.
on “International Racquetball Federation Officially Sanctions Racket:Next” ↗