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Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia

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Wow! It's a road trip that sets the scene for this absolutely hilarious Amelia Bedelia novel that will keep her fans laughing 'till the last page!

Good Drriving, Amelia Bedelia is filled with tons of "Amelia-isms," her constant misinterpretations of the most ordinary things -- most outstandingly "fork in the road!"

The wonderful illustrations bring the story to life. This is most certainly a book not to be missed! It's wonderful.

I ordered several Amelia Bedeelia books for my granddaughter for her 7th birthday. She absolutely loves them.

Amelia Bedelia might never learn to not to take things literally, but then Mr. Rogers seems to keep forgetting what makes his housekeeper so unique, so he is not exactly showing a high learning curve either. In "Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia," things start off innocent enough. It is Amelia Bedelia's birthday and she is going to go visit her cousin Alcolu. Mr. Rogers offers to let her drive the family car, but Amelia Bedelia has not driven in years so he decides to see if her driving is as good as the picture on her drivers license. Of course, this turns out to be something of a mistake.

Actually, in this story, written by Peggy Parish's nephew Herman and illustrated by Lynn Sweat, there is more of a tendency to go with puns, especially once our heroine drives by a farm: "Herd of cows" says Mr. Rogers, and Amelia Bedelia says "Of course I have heard of cows." Once we get to cows we get around talking about a steer and horns, but then the pair are back on their way, looking for the fork in the road, trying to find a jack, and getting a toe.

So with all these puns this new adventure for Amelia Bedelia is really not in the true tradition of the series where the fun is always in how she takes comments literally, but it still has its moments and is charming in its own way. Sweat, of course, provided the illustrations for some of Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia books such as "Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia" and "Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping," so for many young readers these will be familiar pictures.

Amelia Bedelia is out on the road in this adventure. She is taking a road trip and the reader gets to meet new friends like Jack and the frienly framer. Fans of Amelia's books get to
say Hi to old friends like Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.

Amelia Bedelia goes driving with Mr. Rogers and they end up getting a flat tier. Mr.Rogers goes to find help and leaves Amelia in the middle of nowhere. A friendly tow truck guy comes and gives Amelia Bedelia and Mr. Rogers a ride home and there is a BIG Suprise ending that you will find out when you read the book. I thought that this book was a great Amelia Bedelia book and I gave it 4 stars.

She is back and now she is driving the last book I reviewed was Amelia Bedalia and The Suprise Shower now you get to go on a road trip with her and meet new friends like jack and say hi to old friends like Mr.and Mrs. Rogers and Cousin Alcolu. This is a great book for the little kiddies that you have around the house and great for you I rated this book a 4.

I love all of the Amelia Bedelia books so much. I am so lucky to have kids; otherwise, I probably never would have discovered these books. Even though I am an adult, and these are kid books, they are worth it. And then some. They are so good.

This particular book "Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia" was written by the nephew of the original author after her death. I am grateful that he continued on the series. Amelia Bedelia is one character I never want to lose.

In this series, Amelia Bedelia is the housekeeper. She is a young girl (probably about 18?), and she takes things literally. For example, if you tell her to hit the road, she will take a stick and go out to the the road and hit it (the road) with the stick. She is not being a smart-alic; that is just the way her brain works. She gets into some funny situations!

Everybody has talents. Amelia Bedelia has a HUGE talent in cooking. She follows the directions literally and her cooking turns out perfect. So what if Amelia Bedelia doesn't do other things correctly, her cooking talent more than makes up for all her shortcomings.

In this particular book, Amelia Bedelia practices her driving. She obviously can drive with no problem, other than taking things literally! Will there be a disaster?

I have read all of these books years ago, but I just re-read this particular book, "Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia". I plan to re-read all of the other books in this series.

If you haven't been lucky enough to discover this series yet, I recommend you find these books!

"Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia" is a story about a girl named Amelia Bedelia who wants to visit her cousin Alcolu so she can take a day off and rest on her birthday. Friends of hers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers allow her to use their car to get to her cousin's house. But first Mr. Rogers takes Amelia out to make sure she still knows how to drive. Along the way, Amelia keeps misinterpreting Mr. Rogers's directions, like pushing on the horn of a cow instead of honking the car horn and misinterpreting a fork in the road as an actual kitchen utensil lying in the road. Soon their car gets a flat tire, but luckily a man in a towtruck happens to pass by and gives them a ride home where a party is waiting for Amelia.
I think that this is a pretty good book because it is fun to see how Amelia Bedelia can mix up just about anything Mr. Rogers says to her but I didn't find anything really special about it. The book is entirely for entertainment of how Amelia totally misinterprets everything around her.

This book is one that shows how a lot of things can be muisunderstood. It explains how people can screw up a direction, or just what someone si trying to tell them. It also teaches that when you are drving or doing some other important task, you need to concentrate, and make sure you know what you are doing. This book is full of surprises about what happened to Amelia Bedilia when Mr. Rodgers took her driving.

I like this book because these are some things that people do tend to confuse in life. IF you do not know how to drive, you should learn before you go on the road. This is a good childrens book on teaching responsibility and learning. I think many young kids will enjoy this book, escpecially when they are just learning how to read.

Amelia Bedelia is out on the road in this adventure. She is taking a road trip and the reader gets to meet new frineds like Jack and the friendly framer. Fans of Amelia's books get to say hi to old friends like Mr.& Mrs. Rogers. Amelia goes driving with Mr. Rogers and they end up with a flat tier. They meet a friendly tow truck guy that takes them back to Mr. Roger's house where there is a suprise ending. I thought that this book was great and should be enjoyed by children of all ages. I rated it a 4.