Title: Soupy
Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One
Author: Judy Blume
Genre: Kid Chapter
Book
Publisher/Date: Delacorte Press/2007
Dates read: 10/30/17
IBSN: 978-0-385-73305-2
“Meet the Pain – My sister’s name is Abigail. I call her the Great One because she thinks
she’s so great. She says, “I don’t think
it. I know it!” When she says that, I
laugh like crazy. Then she gets
mad. It’s fun to make her mad. Who cares if she’s in third grade and I’m
just in first?
“Meet the Great One – My brother’s name is Jacob Edward but
everyone calls him Jake. Everyone but
me. I call him the Pain because that’s
what he is. He’s a first-grade
pain. And he will always be a pain –
even if he lives to be one hundred years old.
Even then, I’ll be two years older than him. I’ll still know more about everything. And I’ll always know exactly what he’s
thinking. That’s just the way it is.”
Leave it to Judy Blume to come up with an endearing story
about a brother and a sister, with lots of gentle jabs at each other, each with
their foibles. I got a kick out of the
fact that Abigail and my granddaughter seem to be in the same boat when it
comes to having a bicycle but not yet to the point where they are ready to learn
to ride it.
As part of Porter’s reading program we took turns reading
out loud to each other for twenty minutes and when it was time for bed I
finished reading our loud to her as she fell asleep. It was a sweet time together, as always.
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