![]() ![]() ![]() 7-10)Ī long-running series reaches its closing chapters. Every kid will understand her desperate desire not to look like a fool in front of her classmates, and they will find her very talented solution-achieved with a little help from her principal-enormously satisfying. Even as Clementine’s antics escalate, the narrative avoids the pitfall of deteriorating into slapstick with the constant reminders of her essential humanity. Which is how you get a teacher to come and look at it.” Clementine’s quest for a talent includes gluing beer-bottle caps to the bottoms of her sneakers juggling her mother’s pocketbook, half-full coffee cup and her kitten, Moisturizer and leashing her little brother as a prop. ![]() ![]() When I was done writing, I curled my hand over my sentence as if it were too private to share. Pennypacker once again demonstrates her keen insights into the third-grade mind with Clementine’s priceless observations of the world around her: “At journal writing I did my idea. What to do when all the third- and fourth-graders are putting on a talent show but you don’t have a talent? That’s Clementine’s dilemma, and her mechanisms for escaping the talent show escalate into hilarity. ![]()
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