by Lois Lowry
Review by Annalise Rose, age 10.
The main characters names are Timothy, he is the oldest, and then there are the twins, Barnaby and Barnaby, most people just called them Barnaby A and Barnaby B. Then there was little Jane, the youngest and the only girl, besides her mother of course. They lived in a tall thin house, with an attic as a play room. Whenever Timothy, or Tim for short did not like something none of the other kids were allowed to like it either.
One day they found a baby at their door step! They brought the baby in the house to show their mother. When they showed the child to their mother she just wanted to drop it of somewhere, but Jane did not want her to, because she thought it looked cute with its little curls. Then her mother walked over and cut off her curls, and jane did not think it is cute anymore. You might guess from this that the mother was mean!
One day the kids mother and father got invitations for a free ship ride called The Reprehensible Travel Agency, which the children had sent to the house in order to possibly get rid of their rotten parents (they were hoping a giant squid would eat them). Of course that would mean a baby sitter for the children left behind. They went through so many baby sitters, till finally a plump little lady got the job!
Did the parents get eaten? And by the way, if you think the children were mean for planning this, you should see how the parents try to get rid of the children! HINT: they've been reading too much Hansel and Gretel!
I would recommend it! It's a great read aloud book.
I haven't read this one, Anna, but thanks to your review now I want to!
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