Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
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Book Reviews of Because of Winn-Dixie
Book Review: A 4th grader's perspective
Summary: 3 Stars
My 10-year old son wrote this review for school:
Because Of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo, is an excellent, realistic book about a generous, lonely, and motherless girl named Opal that only wants love. When Opal finds out that she is loved a lot, at the end of the book, she is no longer lonely.
When Opal moves to Naomi, Florida, she finds herself friendless. One day, her dad tells her to go to the grocery store to buy produce, but instead of coming back with food, she comes back with a funny, scruffy, little old dog. Opal is generous enough to care for the dog, who she names Winn-Dixie after the store that she found him in. In return, Winn-Dixie helps Opal make friends and keeps Opal company. As Opal and Winn-Dixie keep trying to make friends, Opal really wished her mom was there to give her good advice.
The book "Because of Winn-Dixie" is mediocre because I feel the words are easy and the plot is slow for fourth graders, but the plot is good. The characters are so different that it is silly Opal is friends with all of them. The book's plot also has some sad parts and some funny parts which makes those sections fun to read and interesting. I recommend this book to anybody that likes relationships or is lonely.
Book Review: loved it
Summary: 3 Stars
when 10 year old indiana opolis is sent to the wind-dixie grociery store to pik up a couple items she finds her self running into an unexpeted dog in the produce ile the dog is ratty and making a mess and he is covered in tomatos the store manager wants some one to call the pound but the indana sais the dog is hers as indana opolis and win-dixie go on in the story they start to gain a conection like indana thinks she can kinda omminicate with win-dixie and as the story goes on indna opolis gets more and more curious about her mom. As she and wind-dixie go on they make new freinds and have to face new fears every day. towards the end will she find out who her mom is that you will have to find out for our self. when i was little it was hard for me to make freinds but when i did make a freind it opend up a lot more apportunities to make more freinds. i think that this is a good book for children like and under cause i think that this book to me is a little kidish but it still is a good book.
author:cate dicamillo
genre:fiction
theme: that even if your new you can still make freinds.
plot: she makes lots of freinds and she finds out what her mother is like
publisher:candlewick
Book Review: Great characters. Great narration. The only thing missing is a plot.
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a read-aloud mom with a family of boys. And we read a LOT Of children's literature. This book has some great funny moments and some wonderful descriptions, but in the end -- absolutely NOTHING happens. Just relationship building. And maybe there are kids out there who think character studies are simply *fascinating* and wait spellbound to see whether Otis will accept the invitiation to the party, or whether the Preacher will open up to his daughter... but those kids don't happen to live in my house.
Not a bad book, but it goes nowhere.
Parent notes: abandonment by the mother; remote father; alcohol abuse; punching a police officer; war is hell
Book Review: Strange
Summary: 2 Stars
I didn't really get this book. A guy got arrested for playing his guitar. A women shaved her sons' hair off because of fleas. Amanda, well she just seems like a snob, even if her brother DID die. Gloria Dump has a tree filled with bottles and jars to keep ghosts of bad things away, that just sounds crazy to me. Sweetie-Pie Thomas, not even CLOSE to a real name. Opal names a dog after a store and noone even notices, except for Gloria Dump who barely said anything about it anyway. The dog wasn't gone a minute, he just hid under a bed. What I DO think is cool about this book is it talks about how people have REASONS to be upset or be mean or be strange. The End. Not a very good book, unless if you like reading this; Blah blah blah. No lie, all it is is conversations and blah-blah-blahing with other people. Seriously! Who would read this book?