| School is nearly out, and parents everywhere are | | | | Chocolate Factory": |
| beginning to wonder what the heck to do with the | | | | - A brief synopsis of the book. |
| summer looming before them. Here's an idea: Start a | | | | - A couple of pages of "tidbits" on author Roald Dahl, |
| kids' book club. As it happens, I know just where to | | | | including biographical notes and a discussion of racism |
| send you for information on how to do it. :) | | | | in the original depiction of the Oompa-Loompas. |
| Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp have taken the | | | | - A recipe for Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious |
| concept from their first book, "The Book Club | | | | Fudgemallow Delight, a recipe created by Dahl himself |
| Cookbook," and gone nuts with it in "The Kids' Book | | | | with his wife, Felicity (with a warning that it's extremely |
| Club Book," creating what will probably always stand | | | | sweet). |
| as the definitive book on organizing a kids' reading club. | | | | - A "candy inventing" activity. |
| It covers the how-tos of starting a book club for | | | | - A candy bar guessing game. |
| children, ways to spice up meetings, and includes lists | | | | - Discussion questions for the kids. |
| of suggested books for certain age groups. | | | | - Sadly, no ideas on how adults can cope with a book |
| Then they take these ideas and show you exactly | | | | club full of kids hopped up on sugar. Luckily, it's a rare |
| what they're talking about, taking a suggested book | | | | book that has this much candy in it! |
| and breaking it down for you. A timid book club | | | | Gelman and Levy Krupp interviewed something like |
| organizer could take this book and work with it for a | | | | 500 kids' book clubs around the country, and it shows. |
| good chunk of time without having to come up with a | | | | This book is PACKED with book ideas, activities, |
| single original idea. By the time he finished, he'd be a | | | | recipes, discussion questions and more. I can't imagine |
| pro and wouldn't have any trouble continuing on his | | | | a homeschool group, especially, that wouldn't get a |
| own. | | | | great deal out of it. |
| Example: The break-down of "Charlie and the | | | | |