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This is an all-time favorite of mine.
My fifth-grade teacher, Miss Shannon, read it to the class chapter by chapter, and I was so absorbed in the story I cajoled my grandma into buying me a copy so I wouldn't have to wait for the next day's reading time. I recently re-read it with my kids and they loved it, too. The humor (downright Monty Python-esque in places) and vocabulary was a bit over their heads, but they still got into it. Seriously, what's not to love about a talking dodecahedron?
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My fifth-grade teacher, Miss Shannon, read it to the class chapter by chapter, and I was so absorbed in the story I cajoled my grandma into buying me a copy so I wouldn't have to wait for the next day's reading time. I recently re-read it with my kids and they loved it, too. The humor (downright Monty Python-esque in places) and vocabulary was a bit over their heads, but they still got into it. Seriously, what's not to love about a talking dodecahedron?
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A fun read - kind of humorous that I am 30 years old the first time I read it! This one is going to be one to have on the kids bookshelves in a few years.
The back flap starts to describe the book "For Milo, everything's a bore.". I was wondering how applicable it would be in this world of kids getting smartphones and playing with iPads from a young age - I mean, that's the problem right? Kids (and adults) aren't bored anymore, we are too preoccupied with ... everything? However, I found it very ...more
The back flap starts to describe the book "For Milo, everything's a bore.". I was wondering how applicable it would be in this world of kids getting smartphones and playing with iPads from a young age - I mean, that's the problem right? Kids (and adults) aren't bored anymore, we are too preoccupied with ... everything? However, I found it very ...more
I'd never read this but had heard that it was like a later day Alice in Wonderland. I found a copy on a clearance table and decided that at 10 cents it was time. I read it as a bathroom read but I felt that it went on too long and got a bit tedious. It had a clever idea at it's root, and hinted at bigger issues but never really nailed any of those for me. I think that it was written at level that an elementary student might enjoy but the characters all too clearly just stood for something and no
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My favorite book ever! This is one of precious few books I have read multiple times. Absolutely a classic from the Isle of Conclusions to the dodecahedron.
Oct 18, 2010
Stacie
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Jun 01, 2011
Crystle
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Apr 24, 2012
Jurgen_i
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Jul 17, 2013
Laurice
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Aug 24, 2013
Becca
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Oct 13, 2014
Linda Rowland
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Dec 10, 2015
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