Abigail Spells Review

TITLE: Abigail Spells
AUTHOR: Anna Alter
PUB DATE: April 2009

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Can Abigail spell her way to the top?

Abigail is good at many things. She can dance the cha-cha, make up stories to tell her best friend, George, and strike a fabulous pose. But there is one thing she loves to do most of all: Abigail loves to s-p-e-l-l. When her school announces the annual spelling bee, Abigail spends her days practicing with the help of George, but things don’t go according to plan. Can George convince Abigail that winning isn’t everything?

Anna Alter’s gentle text, which contains fun words to spell throughout, and gorgeous illustrations make for a perfect match in this endearing story of friendship.

Michael’s Thoughts:
We first heard about the Cybils Awards last year and Michelle from GalleySmith is hosting the Cybils Award Challenge 2010. You can go check out her site to find out how to take part.

Abigail Spells is one of the books that is on the list.

We really enjoyed this book. Abigail can do many things such as dance while George plays the maracas. make up stories for George and pose while George paints her all of which she enjoys doing but there is one thing that she loves to do and that is spell.

Abigail is excited when her school has a spelling bee. She practices and practices. Which added to the book as kids can learn how words are spelled. Then on the day of the spelling bee Abigail gets nervous and can’t spell her word “Elephant”. Abigail is really upset. She doesn’t want to dance, pose, read a story or even speak.

Will George come to the rescue and get Abigail to speak?

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