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This is one of Polacco’s fantasy books. I love Aunt Charolette and how she protested to the towns obsession with TV by refusing to leave her bed for 50 years! She finally emerged to see all the ways books were being used, she explains what a book is and how it’s used for reading. “Now look at this. Those are words. They tell about ideas, dreams, and feelings. They take you to places far from here. They show you how to be fair and just, and sometimes show you what happens when you’re not. Books are a treasure. All you need is the key.” I loved this explanation Aunt Chip gave of words to Eli. Eli wanted to learn how to read and eventually did. Aunt Chip was originally the towns librarian, before the town became obsessed with television. This book would be important in the classroom to show children the importance of books, without books you can’t read. ( )

This book is about an aunt coming to visit her family and seeing that everyone is in love with their TVs and has forgotten how to read. Aunt chip taught Eli how to read and everyone was amazed and wanted to learn how to read! Aunt Chip and Eli helped everyone in the town learn to read. ( )

Aunt Chip was a librarian until the town got their beloved tv's, thought that they didn't need books, and tore down the library. She warned them that there would be consequences, and there were. People forgot how to read! With the help of a young boy, she taught the town's children to read, and they showed their parents the importance of reading. ( )

I liked this book by Patricia Polacco because of its humorous events and because of the message it sends out to children. The story is about a town called Triple Creek where the people do not read books, instead they watch TV. The people of Triple Creek love TV so much, “They even kept photos of their TV’s on their mantels along with all the pictures of their family members”. Things like that added to the humor of the story. On another page books started falling from the sky and a little girl said, “It’s raining books”, also adding to the humor of the story.
I also really liked this book because of the message it sends to children. This story is an example of what life would be like without books. The town is a mess because the people don't read books to learn how to fix it up. After the town learns to read again “They were planting gardens and parks because of books on gardening”.
The main idea of this book is to show children the importance of reading and the joy that can come from reading. The children in the story were begging to learn how to read because of the joy they saw it brought Eli to read. This is the message that is send to children, that reading is fun. ( )