Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck

Name: Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Herman Parish
ISBN: 9780062280329

Author: Herman Parish

Narrator: Christine Ebersole

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Published: 08/27/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction, Beginner Readers, Children's Humor

Synopsis

Amelia Bedelia Tries Her Luck is a funny I Can Read adventure, starring Amelia Bedelia as a young girl, that is just right for beginning readers. Amelia Bedelia, America's favorite housekeeper, has been making readers laugh for fifty years!America's favorite housekeeper investigates all kinds of good luck and bad luck in this beginning reader starring Amelia Bedelia as a young girl. Why is it unlucky for a black cat to cross your path? Why does a horseshoe bring good luck? If you step on a crack, will you really break your mother's back? Amelia Bedelia, who always takes things literally, tries to understand common superstitions in this funny book about friendship

About Herman Parish

Herman Parish was in the fourth grade when his aunt, Peggy Parish, wrote the first book about Amelia Bedelia. The author lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amelia on March 28, 2023

Chloe read me this book by the fire. I feel better now 💕......more

Goodreads review by Molly on January 10, 2018

I always chuckle reading these to my little girl - great for bedtime stories!......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 14, 2018

This book was very funny in all of the superstitions that it played on. Many children can relate to this thought process as well. Step on a crack break your mother's back and a mirror breaking being bad luck have been superstitions forever. I am glad though that even though this novel surrounds luck......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on January 28, 2019

Summary: There are about 50 Amelia Bedelia books between Herman and Peggy Parish. This specific book is by Herman and is about a young girl named Amelia Bedelia started out with breaking a mirror on Friday the 13th (bad luck) but her friends try to help her get good luck back by picking up a heads-u......more

Goodreads review by Joey on December 02, 2017

I remember reading this book whilst in third grade. Wretched old skunkbag, Mrs. Hart, who terrorized many of us in her class, had us read the original book in which Amelia Bedelia was a housekeeper, the WORST housekeeper in the WORLD (but she made MARVELOUS lemon merinque pies. I'd rather have Cool......more