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Dec 14, 2009

R. rated it:

Later in life, when conversation turned to books one read as a child...and after exhausting my fond memories of Frog and Toad...I recalled this character.

"Who?"
"Amelia Bedelia..."
"You're pronouncing it wrong. It's Uh-mee-lee-ah Buh-dee-lee-ah. Hold on."
"Where are you going?"
"Making sure I didn't miss taking my pill."

So, note: "Amelia Bedelia" doesn't rhyme with "Oh-Hell-yeah Regalia"

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Feb 09, 2012

Samantha rated it:

Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish is about a housekeeper with a very literal mind. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers leave Amelia a list of chores to do while they are gone. To Amelia "drawing the drapes" literally means taking a pencil and paper and making a picture of the drapes. "Change the towels in the green bathroom" means phsycially changing their appearance with scissors. These are just examples of chores Amelia takes literally. When the Rogers return home Mrs. Rogers becomes very an More...

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Oct 30, 2011

Catherine rated it:

Easy-to-Read

This book is the funny story of a maid on her first day of work. Her boss, Mrs. Robinson, can’t be there on her first day of work, so she leaves Amelia Bedelia a list of tasks to accomplish during the day. She does everything exactly as the list says. When the list says “dust the furniture” she puts Mrs. Robinson’s dusting powder all over the furniture. From literally drawing the curtains to dressing the chicken by putting clothes on it, she follows the list exactly. Howe More...

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Oct 30, 2011

Kathryn rated it:

This book is a good easy read book for children. It contains a lot of humor to keep children engaged in reading. The vocabulary is simple. This book is also a good book to teach about meaning of words and phrases. Amelia Bedelia is instructed to complete a "to do" list. On that list there are many things to do. The first thing Amelia is asked, is to change the towels in the green bathroom. The literal meaning is to physically take the towels that are in the bathroom and replace with ne More...

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Feb 05, 2011

Nicola rated it:

Reason for Reading: Ds read aloud to me as his reader.

Well, everybody knows the antics of Amelia Bedelia, the maid who takes everything literally. This is the first book written about the famous maid, that made her such a beloved literary character. My son loved the book, thought it was just absolutely hilarious and couldn't believe how "stupid" she was. "Stupid" is a word we are not allowed to say in our house so I asked for another word to describe Amelia and he c More...

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May 18, 2010

Melissa rated it:

This story is about a maid named Amelia Bedelia that is hired by an older couple. During her first day she encounters some complications with the chore list she is given. Her thoughts of what the list tells her do is different than what the couple had in mind. This book contains detailed illustrations that help the reader imagine each task that is being done by Amelia Bedelia. The book helps the reader open their imagination to the thought process of Amelia Bedelia and her requested chores. The More...

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Dec 12, 2011

Colby rated it:

Amelia Bedelia is a fun loving story about a maid who gets everything backwards. She starts out as her first day ever as a maid for Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. Rogers has left her a long list of chores to do while they are gone for the day. Amelia Bedelia does exactly what the list asks her to do...just not in the way Mrs. Roger's meant for her to do them. When she's asked to dress the chicken, well she thinks she has to dress the chicken...she actually dresses the chicken in clothing! When t More...

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Feb 06, 2012

Gina rated it:

Amelia Bedelia is another one of my favorite books for young readers. I remember reading these stories countless times with my parents as a child. This book is very different from other children’s books in the sense that adults can find it funny as well. While I was just reading this, I was literally laughing out loud. Kids will find the silly things Amelia does extremely entertaining and leave them wanting to read more. It’s a great book that children and parents can enjoy together. The vo More...

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Nov 05, 2011

Ellen rated it:

Amelia Bedelia. What can I say. I always wanted my parents to hire a maid, but I could never decided if I wanted Amelia Bedelia or Hazel.
I was a very literal child and I could totally identify with Amelia. I mean, I had often had those same questions. Seriously, wouldn't dusting mean to put dust on it? The chocolate covered fish, a picture that will stay in my head all my life.
But as an adult with kids who take everything literally, I was able to read them Amelia in all her in More...

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Apr 08, 2010

Sharon rated it:

This story stirs many childhood memories and is a favorite I still keep on my bookshelf. Amelia is a maid who can never get it right and her hilarious mishaps make for a great read for children. She takes everything literal on her "to do" list and if she needs to dry clothes, she actual sets them outside to dry. I love how silly this story is and I wonder about the actual Amelia Bedelias out there who do take everything as literal as she does. It is okay though because she makes it all More...

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Feb 18, 2010

Megan added it

This book is great for young children who are getting more comfortable with language and starting to read more independantly. Immediately, i noticed that "Amelia Bedelia" is an easy to read book: level 2. It says right on the front cover that this was written for children in grades 1-3. Some features of the book that make it ideal for this age group is the larger, double spaced font, and that is has more than one sentance on a page. The author uses a variety of punctuation and quotatio More...

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Nov 28, 2011

shranicky rated it:

This easy-to-read book is just that, it’s very easy to read for children. Amelia Bedelia is hired as a maid for the Rogers family. Mrs. Rogers gives her a list of chores to finish while the family goes out for the day, and even though Amelia tries as hard as she can, she can’t seem to do anything right. On the chores list, there are many things to do. But, before starting the chores, she makes a pie to be nice. The first thing Amelia is asked to do is to change the towels in the green bathroom. More...

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May 27, 2010

Justina rated it:

Amelia Bedelia is a housekeeper for the Rogers. She is given a list of chores she must do and while she does complete her list, she takes her tasks too literal. Amelia is like a child; for she does not understand simple things like drawing, the drapes to her that means to actually drawing drapes on a canvas when she should be moving them to let in the sunlight. The tone of the book is comedic it makes the book enjoyable for the children. This story would be good for children from first to third More...

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Oct 31, 2011

Karla rated it:

Easy-to-Read Books

I remember growing up with Amelia Bedelia and absolutely loving it. Looking through the story again I can see why. The illustrations are brights and add so much detail to the story. The story line is such a hilarious one of taking phrases literally "change the towels, dress the turkey, etc." Young children do not yet have the ability to understand highly figurative language, and this book is a great introduction for that. These statements are something t More...

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Feb 05, 2011

Laura rated it:

This is one of my all time favorite stories. Amelia Bedlia is a woman who just can't seem to get things right as her new job as a house maid, even though she reads each of her instructions carefully. Amelia gets words confused in this story quite often. For instance, when she read the direction of "dress the turkey," Amelia Bedlia does what she thinks is best and cuts an outfit for the turkey to wear. When asked to "dust the furniture" Amelia sprinkles powder all over the More...

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Dec 21, 2009

Carriek rated it:

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Sep 27, 2011

Leslie rated it:

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Jun 29, 2011

Jill rated it:

Published- New York : HarperCollins, 1992.
ISBN- 0-06-020186-X
Illustrated by Fritz Siebel
Genre- Humor
Reading Level- Kindergarten-2nd grade

This is a story of a house maid who takes your words very seriously. It is a great book to teach children to be careful with their words. The maid is hired to clean the house of a wealthy couple and cleans in her own weird way by "dusting the furniture" with dusting powder rather than removing the dust. Dressing t More...

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Sep 11, 2010

Debbie rated it:

Starting a new job is always a bit uncertain but Amelia Bedelia dove right in. Luckily Mrs. Rogers left her a list of exactly what she needed to do. Even though Amelia thought it was strange to want your furniture dusted instead of undusted, she found the dusting powder, and put it on all the furniture. While she worked on completing the list of odd requests, she also made a pie for her new employers. After finding the mess Amelia made of her list of instruction, Mrs. Rogers was about to fire Am More...

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Feb 25, 2009

Elizabeth rated it:

By: Peggy Parish

Pictures by: Fritz Siebel

Genre: longer picture book, fiction

Audience: 2nd through 5th grade

Topic: Chores

Theme: Following directions, common sense

Curricular uses: Read aloud, Guided Reading, classroom library

Reading level:Transitional

Illustrations: Most of the pictures of showing what Amelia did that she wasn't supposed to do. This way the students understand how she took everything lit More...

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Nov 08, 2008

Tracy rated it:

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Aug 11, 2011

Felicity rated it:

Amelia Bedelia was not doing right choices. She was being silly with her work they wrote on the list. And before she did any of the things they wrote on the list, she made lemon meringue pie. Amelia Bedelia when she was doing the towels, she cut them and made them in to flowers and put them in her hair. And she did not close the curtains when the sun came up. And she drew the curtains. -by Felicity

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Oct 05, 2011

Luz rated it:

This book was not that interesting to me. I remember reading this book when i was little but its not anything special. I feel like kids do this all the time. The parents say one thing and kids do the other because they dont fully understand whats happenings or what is being asked of them. i can have students give me an example of times that have happened to them or maybe write their own stories.

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Jun 08, 2010

Mark rated it:

I heard a father reading one of these books to his daughter one time, and what I heard was pretty funny—so I figured I'd try this one out (it wasn't the same one—I don't remember which Amelia Bedelia book they had). It was pretty interesting, although not quite in the same style as one I had heard.

I'm not sure if the edition I have set is the right one, although the coverart is the same.

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Apr 10, 2011

Renae added it

Oh my goodness i used to love reading amelia bedelia books when i first learned to read. She reminds me of I love lucy for some reason, she is always getting into some kind of mischeif. I didnt realize how old these books are, it is so great how books last forever and stories can be engaging for decades and decades. I actually still see these books in classroom libraries.

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Aug 20, 2009

Maggie rated it:

You should read this some time! It was funny that Amelia did everything that they said, but it never turned quite right. She dressed a chicken in clothes! She cut up all the hand towels, because they said to change the towels, and she dusted all the furniture by putting dusty powder on it. It was good that she made them a surprise by making them lemon pie.

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Mar 11, 2009

Jen rated it:

For old times' sake and a bit of research, I picked this up at my library and zipped through it on the walk home. Yep, her literalness still drives me nuts, and I remember thinking when I was a child how very much trouble she would be in with my family no matter how good her baking was; I still think that. The illustrations are fun, though.

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Dec 03, 2011

Stephanie rated it:

The Rogers hire Amelia Bedelia as their new housemaid but are unable to stay on her first day. Mrs. Roger leave Amelia a list of things to do while they are out. Amelia has a different was of thinking and doesn't do quite what Mrs. Rogers had hoped. After tasting Amelia's pie, however, they decided to keep her and change their wording.

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Jul 02, 2009

Megan rated it:

So starting a story like my sunday school teacher. When I was a little children.... I read Amelia Bedelia. I wasn't one of those kids that read all the time, that came like sixth grade, but I did like to read Amelia Bedelia. She was funny and did things I wished I had thought of. She still is one of my favortie kids books of all time.

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Sep 09, 2009

Chandra rated it:

This book always tickled my funny bone when I was a kid. I think kids really like being 'in the know' and so it's fun to anticipate what silly, literal minded Amelia is going to do next! My favorite illustration has always been the 'dressed' chicken in a box. And dang it, that lemon meringue pie always makes me hungry!

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