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Mud Trilogy #2
The Red Tide
Mud the Fish and his friends are back in Volume 2 to battle the forces of nature around them on Sentence Island. They are enjoying a peaceful life and reflecting on the meaning of words, on the two sides of sentences, and on the importance of thinking clearly. They experiment with various true and untrue sentences, grammar notwithstanding. “A fish is an animal. All fish are animals. Therefore, all animals are fish“ is clearly not true.
A series of near-calamities throws everything into disarray—a tsunami, a red tide, and then a waterspout. The red tide coincides with a distinguished visitor, Queequack, the famous paragraph expert (children will meet him in Paragraph Town, the writing book in Level 2 of the MCT curriculum), and Mud has to convince everyone that the two events are not connected. After the waterspout they learn that everything has to be in its rightful place.
Soon a tall, green stranger arrives on their shore to tell them that their disasters are a result of poor leadership. If they obey him, the mantis tells them, and echo his words, he will solve all their problems. He is a devious character and demands absolute loyalty with no questions asked. Daisy the pelican, Clack, and Mud do not fall for his false words and manage to persuade the others by using the logic they have all learned. As the great waterbird Benjamin Frankloon once said, “We must all stick together, or we will all get stuck separately.”
A series of near-calamities throws everything into disarray—a tsunami, a red tide, and then a waterspout. The red tide coincides with a distinguished visitor, Queequack, the famous paragraph expert (children will meet him in Paragraph Town, the writing book in Level 2 of the MCT curriculum), and Mud has to convince everyone that the two events are not connected. After the waterspout they learn that everything has to be in its rightful place.
Soon a tall, green stranger arrives on their shore to tell them that their disasters are a result of poor leadership. If they obey him, the mantis tells them, and echo his words, he will solve all their problems. He is a devious character and demands absolute loyalty with no questions asked. Daisy the pelican, Clack, and Mud do not fall for his false words and manage to persuade the others by using the logic they have all learned. As the great waterbird Benjamin Frankloon once said, “We must all stick together, or we will all get stuck separately.”
118 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2013
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September 12, 2021
I liked this one better than The Rescue at Fragment Crag. This story line deals with logic ideas. Still not my favorite series perhaps, but I didn't mind reading this. For my 3rd grade son's MCT Language Arts curriculum.
May 30, 2021
We loved this book and refer back to it all the time.
July 24, 2022
Yes! Yes we should teach our children how to think logically, that things people say are not always true, and that popularity does not equal truth!
August 11, 2023
I liked the message behind this book. It is about the truth. Simple enough plot, but it got the message across clearly.
I may update with how my 7yo daughter likes it after she reads it.
I may update with how my 7yo daughter likes it after she reads it.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews