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Marvin One Too Many
Share the love of reading with your beginner reader
"I Can Read" books are widely recognised as the premier line of beginner readers. Inaugurated in 1957 with Else Holmelund Minarik's "Little Bear," illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the series has grown to over 200 titles, which include mysteries, adventure stories, poetry, historical fiction and humour. Featuring award-winnin...more
"I Can Read" books are widely recognised as the premier line of beginner readers. Inaugurated in 1957 with Else Holmelund Minarik's "Little Bear," illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the series has grown to over 200 titles, which include mysteries, adventure stories, poetry, historical fiction and humour. Featuring award-winnin...more
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
July 1st 2003
by HarperTrophy
(first published 2001)
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The I can read book, Marvin One Too Many, by Katherine Paterson, is a inspiring book about how a little boy learns to read. In the begging, Marvin Gates is anything but excited for school. He keeps messing things up, like making his sister late for school then being one too many for his teacher, which is a reoccurring theme in the story. Marvin try as he might can not learn how to read and all the other kids in his class make fun of him for it, but when his teacher, Ms. Brown, gave Marvin a lett...more
Overall, "Marvin One Too Many" was a much smaller book than other picture books. It's vertical layout seems to make it appear like a novel book, but much smaller. Initially, i noticed that the illustrations for the book looked like a color pencil drawing. There was great care in terms of shading, which made the pictures look beautiful. The text was larger and widely spaced out, perfect for beginning readers so they can see clearly the each individual word. On the cover, i noticed immediately tha...more
Marvin One Too Many By Katherine Paterson
When reading this book I felt sad for Marvin, he felt so alone because he was like an extra. Since he felt bad at school he was unable to learn. He hated that all the children made fun of him because he couldn’t read. He was waiting for the day he wouldn’t have to go like a snow day. That day finally came, but he cried because he thought it was his fault that his parents were having a hard time at the farm. He started to cry and told his parents that he w...more
When reading this book I felt sad for Marvin, he felt so alone because he was like an extra. Since he felt bad at school he was unable to learn. He hated that all the children made fun of him because he couldn’t read. He was waiting for the day he wouldn’t have to go like a snow day. That day finally came, but he cried because he thought it was his fault that his parents were having a hard time at the farm. He started to cry and told his parents that he w...more
Feb 24, 2009
Stacie
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This is an I Can Read book I found when I went to the library with my daughter. I picked it up because I know Sharon is on a Katherine Patterson kick. Katherine Patterson's primer book is really amazing. Marvin One Too Many is about Marvin, who lives on a dairy farm and struggles with reading. Patterson shows the conflict first-grade Marvin feels as he realizes he is slow and seeminlgly can't learn to read. Marvin feels like he can't ask his parents to help him each night as the teacher reques...more
Jan 24, 2012
Jordyn Mcleod
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This story reminds me a lot of a little boy that I used to babysit for. Except he didn't struggle so much with reading, he struggled with math. While he was at school he would get very upset when the student around him would make the connection and the little light bulbs would go off in their heads but he would sit there in confusion not understanding how to complete the problems. Children need to understand that not everyone learns at the same pace and that it's okay if it takes them a bit long...more
I loved this book because it touches base on the anxiety that chilcren sometimes get while reading, especially when they're not as advanced as theyre expected. The book also offers a positive subject that if we take the resposibility as children's peers to read to our children, often they will become better readers themselves. I was once told that I wasn't at the same reading level as majority of my class, so this book hit a sensitive subject for me and brought by certain childhood memories.
Marvin One Too Many is a decent book. I honestly wanted to cry because Marvin felt like an outcast and such a burden to his family and teacher. This book didn't make me smile until the last few pages when his father said he was the last one to read in his class as well; then his father started to help him read. This book reminded me of how my dad used to help me read as a young child. If you want a book that motivates you then this story is a great one to read!
This book was good. It is about a boy named Marvin who doesn’t know how to read. He goes to school and kids make fun of him. He thought he was one too many. He felt that he didn’t belong because he couldn’t read. He learns how to read when the help of his father. The illustrations were colored in colored- pencils. There is not that much text and the text is big enough to easily read. Some of the words are used more than once throughout the story.
Wonderful book on the anxiety children often feel about reading specially when they're "behind" the level expected, but book offers a positive outlet that if we take the resposibilit as parents and teachers to read to our children often they will become better readers themselves. I was once told never to ask my children to do something they don't see me doing so I had to fall in love with reading all over again so they could see me reading also.
Jul 01, 2010
Dolly
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their children
This is a good book to read aloud with young readers, especially reluctnant ones. Our girls couldn't understand why Marvin didn't like books, so it was good to help them see how some children don't get read to very much and/or struggle with their reading.
Apr 22, 2009
Corinneecomly
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
beginning readers, especially boys
Shelves:
1-2nd-grade-reader
Struggling readers can identify with Marvin in this easy reading book. Marvin is a farm boy at a new school who gets lost, isn't on the class list, and can't read. Colored pencil illustrations break up text.
Aug 15, 2009
Breana Manley
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it reminded me of when my step mom came into my life at first.
My son really got a good kick out of this book. We read it twice in one setting and I am sure he would wants to read it again and again.
She really liked it.
Feb 03, 2013
Igraine
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Oct 19, 2012
Jen
marked it as to-read
Oct 06, 2012
Sharon Cochran
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From author's website:
People are always asking me questions I don't have answers for. One is, "When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?" The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. Today I want very much to be a writer. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. When I was twenty, I wanted t...more
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People are always asking me questions I don't have answers for. One is, "When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?" The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. Today I want very much to be a writer. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. When I was twenty, I wanted t...more
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