Hattie

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Pub Date 07 Apr 2020 | Archive Date 28 Sep 2020

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Description

Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures.

Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab, and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong—like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos.

Hattie is funny, lively and sympathetic chapter book, perfect for reading aloud and for newly independent readers.

Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures.

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ISBN 9781776572700
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 160

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This is an odd little adventure book about Hattie and the mischief she gets into. From things like pulling up the neighbors flowers, because she wants pretty flowers for her mother, to putting soap into one of the boys drinks, because she is angry at him.

Like any good picture book, you can read this at the children's level, as well as at the adult level, where things are hinted at, such as the father not approving of Hattie going to after school sessions at the local church.

The story follows her adventures for her first year of school, a place she has never been before, and because she lives way out in the back of beyond, she has never hung out with other children her age, so has no way to know how to react to them.

It is cute, a little weird, because even though it is a good translation, some things are still odd, and some things can't be translated, such as the song they are supposed to sing at the end of the year.

Enjoyable escape, however. So, recommend it.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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Hattie reminds me of a Swedish Junie B. Jones or Ramona Quimby. This is the story of her first year in school and events of what seems to be about a years time. Told in a childlike way of course, because Hattie is only six.

Some of Hattie's antics are a bit odd for a children's book. Like when Hattie and Linda, her best friend who has a pet guinea pig named Roy, decide to get revenge on the lunch lady for making Linda eat two pieces of Blood pudding. They decide they are going to put water in an electric outlet with the intention of giving the woman a shock. Or when she gets upset about the woman from the church yelling at her when she opens the bathroom door and woman is sitting on the toilet. I'll admit, the use of the word "Plop" was a comical touch.

Overall, Hattie is a fun, and funny book. Her adventures are sweet and she quickly becomes an endearing child.

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