Friday, April 25, 2008

What's So Bad About Being an Only Child



Best, Cari. What's So Bad About Being an Only Child. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Farrar, Strause and Giroux: 2007. ISBN: 9780374399436.

The book What's So Bad About Being an Only Child is about a girl named Rosemary Emma Angela Lynette Isabel Iris Malone. She is an only child and in the beginning of the book and no one knows what to name her. Her grandparents, mother, father, aunts and uncles don't agree on one name so her parents give her all six names. As Rosemary goes into middle school she starts getting bored and starts going to her friends' houses and all of her friends have brothers and sisters. So she things that her life is incomplete. If you would like to learn more about Rosemary, you will have to read the book. I think this is an excellent book about being an only child. Even though I, myself, am not an only child, I truly think that this book is a good book for kids that are an only child. I also recommend this book for kids that are by themselves in their family, and for kids grades 3 though 6.
B.L., Grade 5, Arcadia Elementary

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