Ellie McDoodle: Best Friends Fur-Ever (Ellie #3)
Ruth McNally Barshaw
Bloomsbury, 2010
$12.99, Hardcover
978-1599904269
March 11th, 2012
Genre:
Realistic, Humor
Age: 7+
Description:
Ellie’s teacher assigns a report on animals and Ellie has no idea what to do
her paper on. When a neighbor asks her to pet sit her exotic parrot, Alix,
Ellie jumps at the chance thinking she’s found an animal. Hating public
speaking, Ellie hopes that she can get Alix to say parts of her speech for her
and get her an A—too bad Alix seems to hate Ellie, calling her Ellie Crazy
Pants, and prefers the company of Ben-Ben the Monkey Boy (aka Ellie’s little
brother). When Ben-Ben accidentally lets Alix fly outside, Ellie fears how
she’ll get him back—it might take some teamwork to do it if she can fess up to
her errors.
Opinion: The
Ellie books are hilarious and fun. Written in a fancy typeface for handwriting
and crammed with lots of illustrations and doodles by “Ellie” the journal style
really helps get you inside of Ellie’ head and makes you really feel for her,
including all her frustrations, insecurities, nervousness, and sibling drama.
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