Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $1.44 You Save: $3.55 (71%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Freckle Juice
Book Review: A Bunch who loved the Freckle Punch
Summary: 5 Stars
We the students of the third grade here at St. Andrews School in Boston, Ma hereby proclaim that we loved Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. The story was funny, silly and goofy. It also taught us an important lesson-we should like ourselves just the way God made us! Readers out there young and old, pick up Freckle Juice. You won't be disappointed!Book Review: A classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember reading this when I was a kid and when I saw it on my seven year old's summer reading list, I had to buy it for him.
We have been reading the book together and we have BOTH been giggling over it. My son teases me because I have a lot of freckles -- he thought I drank some freckle juice! LOL!
Judy Blume's books are just as good as I remember them.
Book Review: A curious freckle quest
Summary: 3 Stars
Judy Blume's "Freckle Juice" is a short tale for young readers, with illustrations by Sonia O. Lisker. Blume tells the story of Andrew Marcus, a 2nd grade student who wishes he had freckles. Things get freaky when a classmate promises to sell him a "secret recipe for freckle juice."Blume taps effectively into the culture of children's folk magic and urban legend with this tale. I was a bit turned off, however, by Blume's portrayal of Andrew's shrewish, hysterical, overbearing mother. After finishing the book, I thought, "When this kid grows up, he's going to have some serious issues with women!" I also didn't like the fact that the "villain" of the story essentially lies, swindles, and violates classroom discipline and suffers no consequences. Still, "Freckle Juice" is a fun story with a memorable "gross-out" factor.
Book Review: Comical entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a good first chapter book for 2nd graders. There are 40 pages (7 of which are full page illustrations) There are more pages with half page illustrations. The book is entertaining. The particular book my kids read does not have color illustrations - the illustrations are in black and white, which my kids complained about. The story line is good. The moral of the story is "we all have things about ourselves we would like to change." It's about self acceptance. My 5th grader read this book, but he wasn't particularly thrilled about it. My 3rd grader liked it much better. There are a lot of color descriptions in the book and it would probably be better served with color illustrations. That is why I reduced it 1 star. We compensated for this by drawing color pictures for the pages that had good color descriptions. This is a good story, I remember reading it in elementary school. You don't forget this one soon for some reason, probably because it's one of the first chapter books kids read and, in my case, it was a leap above the "Pug, Jan, and Ted" of my younger days.Book Review: Cute
Summary: 4 Stars
For an adult, this would be a fairly short and easy read, but it's still pretty funny because of the simplicity and fun of this story. The main character wishes he had freckles and is jealous of a boy in his class who has lots of them. Being a kid, he doesn't realize that freckles aren't something you can just get, though boy howdy, he tries hard!
The story becomes really entertaining as he is offered a concoction by a classmate who tells him it will give him freckles. The story ends on a rather funny and surprising note which teaches us one important lesson - the grass on the other side is always greener.