Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
Early reader · ages 5–8 · grades K–3 · 460L · 63 pages · 1996
Why we'd hand it over
The original word-play machine — a book that makes kids *want* to explain homophones and idioms to adults, and their own first encounter with the idea that language has layers.
What parents said
I genuinely enjoy listening to them and reading them! The author also provides many ideas for further learning and experiments on her website.
Sophie Mouse, Brambly Hedge, Amelia Bedelia and Angelina Ballerina are all great and mostly feature mice and other small critters as the "people" just going about their lives with simple problems.