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    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair: Book 2
    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair: Book 2
    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair: Book 2
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    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair: Book 2

    By Alice Kuipers and Diana Toledano

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    Polly and her magic book, Spell, have all kinds of adventures together because whatever Polly writes in Spell comes true! But when Polly and Spell join forces to make the school fair super spectacular, they quickly discover that what you write and what you mean are not always the same. Filled with the familiar details of home and school, but with a sprinkling of magic, this book is just right for fans of Ivy + Bean, Judy Moody, and Dory Fantasmagory, as well for aspiring writers, who, just like Polly, know the magic of stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781452152738
    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair: Book 2
    Author

    Alice Kuipers

    Alice Kuipers is the author of four novels and two picture books. Her work has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and selected as a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year. She lives in Saskatoon, Canada.

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    • 4/5
      Polly Diamond is more or less your average elementary school child -- she has two younger siblings, loves learning new words, admires her teacher, and is psyched for the upcoming school fair. But one very special thing about Polly is that she possesses a magic notebook in which anything she writes comes to life -- sometimes with unintended consequences!This is the second book in a series and I wonder if reading the first book beforehand might have helped a little. Mostly the entry point was low but I was wondering about the origins of the magic notebook and my niece wanted to know how old Polly was. (It's not listed but it's safe to assume elementary school-age.) There's also several references to a group called S.T.O.R.Y. Utopia; one would assume that S.T.O.R.Y. is an acronym but it is never explained further.There were a lot of fun things about this book. I loved how Polly is interested in words, word play, and various literary devices. It's similar to but a step up from the Fancy Nancy picture books/early readers in that Polly will stop and explain the new word she learned, although here she is interested not just in vocabulary but also similes, palindromes, etc. It's a smidge on the didactic side but mostly Kuipers manages to work it into the text as part of the story.The magic notebook adds a lot of humor because it is the classic genie trope of the notebook taking Polly's wishes too literally. For some reason the fair doesn't really seemed to be planned in advance by the adults at the school, so Polly and her magic notebook are designing activities and booths. This is where the too literal humor comes in; for instance, when Polly asks for the face paintings to seem very realistic and surprise the parents, the magic notebook has the face paintings come to life and zoom around the building. For some reason, the children and parents are indeed surprised but not overly concerned.In terms of diversity, Polly is a biracial child with one white parent and one black parent. Her classmates are ethnically diverse by naming conventions. In keeping with Polly's love of words, she name drops several books throughout the story and a list appears at the end, although it misses The London Eye Mystery which had been mentioned. This is great for kids looking for something else to read next, although some of the books are a little more advanced than this one in terms of reading level.All in all, this is a pretty fun read and I think younger children will get more of a kick out of it than I did as they won't be nitpicking the details the way I do as an adult. It's quick-paced and full of small adventures; it is fairly accessible with its language, plus the illustrations add to the story and break up the text.
    • 5/5
      I received a print copy of this book from the publisher through a giveaway they had on LibraryThing, and the following is my honest opinion.How many parents reading this review can remember as a child you loved to write stories and pretend that they were true, I can. As a child, using one of those black/white marble cardboard covered notebooks, I can remember writing them. Some of these stories were like the ones Polly Diamond writes in her magic book, Spell; which is why my inner-child loved reading this book, the only difference is that the stories she writes actually do come true.As adults, we know how complicated the English language can be to learn even though we’ve been born here; especially when a word can have several meanings. We need to be precise as possible so there won’t be any problems with what we need or want. This is the lesson Polly learns, as the difference between her stories and the ones we wrote, is that her stories actually do come true.If you’re going to be using your imagination as Polly does, there could be all sorts of consequences, some funny and some serious; if you don’t sure you’ve asked for precisely what you want to have, like what happens to her. And if you’re going to have something like a school fair, you’d like to make sure it will an extraordinary one which no one will ever forget.For having given her young readers, including my inner-child, an imaginative educational reading experience; my adult side is giving the author, Alice Kuipers, the 5 STARS she’s gotten; along with Diana Toledano for her on-point illustrations for the text.This love of writing is still with me, as I’ve become an author myself.

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    Polly Diamond and the Super Stunning Spectacular School Fair - Alice Kuipers

    ONE

    Three Reasons Today Will Be Spectacular

    1. Spectacular is my Word of the Day. My dad got me a word calendar so I’d remember the date. Instead, I remember the new words. I love words. Especially words like spectacular because it has four syllables. My name, Polly Diamond, also has four syllables. My teacher, Ms. Hairball, told us that a syllable is a beat in a word. She beat her hands on her knees. Pol-ly Dia-mond.

    2. Spectacular means a large, fantastic display. Which is an extra-good word for School Fair Day— which is today! The school fair is all about books. And I love books.

    3. Also, I have a super-spectacular book. A magic book. Everything I write in my book comes true. I know! Spectacular!

    My magic book is sitting next to my breakfast muffin. It—my book, not my muffin—has a turquoise cover. Turquoise is my favorite color. My glasses are turquoise, my sneakers are turquoise, my T-shirt has turquoise triangles. Turquoise is a hard word to spell. But I am an excellent speller. I can spell turquoise! I love spelling so much that I named my magic book Spell. Spell means THREE things!

    A moment in time.

    To spell a word.

    And a magic spell.

    Perfect! Because Spell IS magic!

    I turn to a blank page in my magic book. I write: Hi, Spell! Today is going be SPECTACULAR!

    A tiny black dot pops onto the page. My book is writing back to me!

    Spectacular?

    I write: It’s School Fair Day.

    Does everyone have to play fair on School Fair Day?

    No! Silly! Fair also means an exhibition! A celebration! A party! And I want to make it spectacular—with you!

    My little sister, Anna, runs into the kitchen and jumps on Dad. ARRGH, he groans dramatically. He wrestles Anna into his arms.

    Daddy, stop! Anna shrieks. My wings!

    She wriggles free and straightens her fairy wings. I’m a fairy today, Polly, she tells me. She snatches my muffin.

    I stick my tongue out at her and take a new muffin from the tin. I eat it quickly. If I wrote Anna is a muffin in Spell, then, POP!, Anna would turn into a muffin! Maybe later.

    Anna reaches a sticky hand for Spell.

    Don’t touch my book, I say. I turn back to Spell and write: I don’t have any ideas for the

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