Gooney Bird Greene
by Lois Lowry
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Author: Lois LowryIllustrator: Middy Thomas
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook
Published: 2002-09-30
ISBN: 0618238484
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
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Book Review: A Good Book for Beginning Readers
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd give Gooney Bird Greene 4 stars because it's a sweet and funny book that teachers a lot to a young reader, but I wasn't incredibly impressed. Newton's third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Of course, that's a part of science, but action and reaction become a part of second grade when Gooney Bird Greene joins Watertower Elementary School and her new classmates, not to mention her teacher, Mrs. Pigeon, don't know how to react. You see, Gooney Bird quickly proves to be as strange as her name when she shows up on her first day at Watertower fabulously clad in pajamas, topped with a cowboy hat, claiming that she just moved there from China. Those are the actions, so what are her classmates' reactions? That's for you to find out by reading Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry. Her laid back, perky personality and charisma eventually win over her classmates, though, and she soon becomes their favorite story teller. All of her stories are absolutely true, or so she claims, but her audience is more than a little skeptical when their titles include: How Gooney Bird Came From China on a Magic Carpet; The Prince, the Palace, and the Diamond Earrings; Why Gooney Bird Was Late for School Because She Was Directing a Symphony Orchestr;, and Beloved Catman Is Consumed by a Cow.
The moral of this story, though I'm not sure Lowry particularly tried to incorporate one, is that things aren't always what they seem. All of Gooney Bird's stories are very different from what their titles make you think, but the titles still fit the stories. All of the characters in Gooney Bird Greene are your basic stock characters of second grade school children, the second grade teacher, Gooney Bird's parents, and all of the characters in her stories, but hilariously exaggerated. Lois Lowry's style in this book is very well adapted to an audience of beginning readers and the way she writes very much reminds me of poetry. The story flows wonderfully from one thing to the next, she uses repetition skillfully in some places, and I could've sworn I saw a simile, but I cannot locate it now.
Gooney Bird Greene is entirely set in Gooney Bird's second grade classroom. This is a quick-read chapter book with occasional pictures perfect for a beginning reader. So if you know one, be sure to order Gooney Bird Greene.
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