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Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess (Ready-to-Read. Level 2) (Paperback)

by Dan Gutman (Author), Elaine Garvin (Illustrator) "Crash! The baseball smashed through the window, landing in a lady's kitchen sink..." (more)

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CRASH! Young George (Babe) Ruth sends his friends' baseball right through a kitchen window. George runs in fear all the way to his father's tavern, where he finds a dollar. That's enough money to buy ice cream for all his friends to make up for the lost ball! So he takes it. Even as a boy Babe Ruth was generous. But sometimes, it got him into big trouble....

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Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Aladdin (February 24, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 068985529X
ISBN-13: 978-0689855290
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Very strange book, March 9, 2007

By	Austin Blair (Okemos, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This book is very odd and, quite frankly, not very good. First of all, Babe Ruth seems like an unusual subject for a kids' book about childhood, since from what I know, Ruth had a fairly unpleasant childhood. After all, his father signed off on parental rights when Babe was seven and he spent the rest of this youth living in a boys' reformatory (St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore).

In the story, seven year-old George (before he became known as "Babe") breaks a window while playing baseball with his friends, runs away from the scene, sees an ice cream cart, later steals a dollar from his father's inexplicably empty tavern, then buys ice cream for all his friends with the dollar. His parents discover his theft, and after a heartfelt exchange with his mother, the book ends with George's father chasing the boy out of the house with a wooden paddle! (I found myself checking the back of the book to make sure I didn't miss the last page--I couldn't believe that a childrens picture book would end in this manner).

This book may have worked better if it had been about Babe's relationship with Brother Matthias, who was Ruth's mentor (and baseball instructor) at the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, but it makes no sense in trying to write about the Babe's rather indifferent parents (and to end the book on such an odd, unresolved, and sour note that will just leave kids confused).

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3.0 out of 5 stars What on Earth is the Moral of this Story? , December 9, 2004

By	Lynn Ellingwood "The ESOL Teacher" (Webster, NY United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Strange tale for a young kid. Babe Ruth as a child steals a dollar from dad to buy his friends ice cream and runs away from a beating at home. What?????? This story is a strange tale in the manner it is told.

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