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Book Review
By Ashley
J. S. Kepner
Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild! by
Mem Fox
Illustrated by Marla Frazee
Published by Harcourt Brace &
Company, March 2000
 | Age Level: preschool to second grade |
| Harriet is what grownups refer to as
rambunctious! However she behaves just like normal toddlers. Through the
course of a day, the young curly haired brunet, perhaps accidentally, knocks
over her juice, drips paint from her picture onto the carpet and while
sliding off of her chair at lunchtime she took the tablecloth, thus
everything on the table, with her. Her mother, who "didn’t like to
yell," handles each incident with such deliberate patience:
"Harriet, my darling child. Harriet, you drive me wild. Harriet,
sweetheart, what are we to do?" But at nap time, Harriet gets her
mother’s last nerve when, while having a pillow fight, she rips open a
feather pillow: Then Harriet’s mother began to yell. She yelled and yelled
and yelled." This situation may well ring true for every family. Mother
and daughter apologize to each other, share a giggle and undertake clean-up
together. |
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