Alexandria’s Book Review
Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten
by Toni Buzzeo Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Dial (May 13, 2010) Picture This!
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Toni Buzzeo was born in Dearborn, Michigan (great name), and was an avid reader for the first formative years of her life. She continued to spend time reading (to her siblings and herself) and writing as she became a teenager, and now has a Bachelor’s in English Language and Literature and a Master’s in the same. I have to say, this is a series I wish I had known about when I was part of the target audience. Adventure Annie sounds like she had a lot of fun, and stirred up a lot of trouble in the bargain—just the type of thing I loved to read about as a kid. There are several other books, and I would love to review them in the future, but this month I wanted to focus on the return to school. It’s early, I know, but it is always better to be prepared, don’t you think? Annie Grace, or Adventure Annie, wears a red cape that never comes off no matter where she goes or what she experiences—even today, her very first day of kindergarten. Unlike most other kids her age, she is hardly shy—kindergarten is just another place to have adventures ranging from the zoo kind to the circus kind. Adventure Annie packs her walkie-talkies, zookeeper hat and high wire slippers into her backpack and follows her mother to her first day at Pioneer Elementary. Annie’s teacher, Mr. Todd, has no idea what he
is in for. First Annie insists on keeping her cape with her—then, after Mr. Todd explains the rules, he is quite surprised to find that Adventure Annie has decorated the hamster cage with as much paint as is humanly possible. Even later he must get Annie from outside, where she has wandered in order to play on the jungle gym. The look on his face is truly priceless. But Adventure Annie has a mission—to get the gold star from Mr. Todd that will make her a Gold Star Deputy for the day. But with Annie the only kid looking for adventure, and all her attempts at adventure seeming to go wrong, will she ever get her wish? When I laugh at a book like this, I know it’s good. This one is certainly excellent, and I look forward to reading more in the future.
48 North Texas Kids • August 2011 •
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