Patrick has a craving for molasses, until the explosion of a fifty-foot tank fills the streets of Boston with the stuff.
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Grade 1-3 A story based on an event that occurred in Boston in 1919. Patrick McGonnigal O'Brien loved molasses. One day he is sent to the store by his mother to fill the empty molasses pail; just as he reaches the store, the huge storage tank explodes and fills the street with molasses. Patrick goes home covered with molasses from head to toe. Of course, a street running full of molasses is too tall a tale for his mother to believe, so Patrick is scrubbed and sent to bed in disgrace. When Papa comes home similarly decorated, all is forgiven, and Patrick has finally found the limit of his molasses tolerance. Uniformly gray pictures with little detail scattered throughout make this look like a poor choice for reading aloud but the subject matter is unusual, and children will relate to poor Patrick's inability to get his mother to believe him. An adequate selection for those just beginning chapter books. Candy Colborn, Cottonwood Creek Elementary School, Englewood, Colo.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion (Library Binding)
This is a good book to teach young children about the genre of historical fiction. You can use it to help them understand what is real and what is not and how to distinguish between the two. It also opens up a discussion about what molasses is and how not too long ago things were very different in this country. You can take this story many places. It also introduces onomatopeia.
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