Amelia Bedelia on the Job

Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books #9

by Herman Parish, Lynne Avril (Illustrations)

In the ninth chapter book in the New York Times –bestselling series, Amelia Bedelia and her friends at school explore different jobs and careers and think about what they want to be when they grow up! Amelia Bedelia is especially curious about her own father’s line of work. If he spends the day pitching to a client, does that mean he plays a lot of baseball? The Amelia Bedelia chapter books star Amelia Bedelia as a young girl and feature funny family and friendship stories just right for fans of Judy Moody and Ivy + Bean. The Amelia Bedelia books have sold more than 35 million copies since we first met the iconic character in 1963!

Genres: Chapter Books, Childrens, 2nd Grade, Fiction, Middle Grade

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 8, 2016

About the author

Herman Parish (born 1953) is the author of Amelia Bedelia children's book series, nephew of original author, Peggy Parish. Having grown up with his aunt’s tales of Amelia’s humorous misadventures, Herman decided to carry on the legacy after his aunt’s death in 1988. He did not wish to entrust the future of the series into the hands of a children’s author outside of the family. Since Peggy had the summers off from teaching, she was able to stay with the Parish family for extended periods of time, allowing Herman and Peggy to develop a close relationship. More importantly, this gave Herman a chance to keenly observe Peggy during her writing processes, gaining great insight to the road ahead of him. To carry on the essence of the series, Herman thoroughly examined his aunt’s work and did his best to capture what exactly made the character of Amelia Bedelia such a hit. Having editor Susan Hirschman and illustrator Lynn Sweat in common with his aunt helped to make the transition. He has added thirteen more books to the series. Herman is a resident of Princeton, New Jersey, and travels to libraries and schools across the United States, speaking and inspiring young children. The importance of revising and editing is often stressed during these dynamic lectures. He has presented to students in more than 22 states.

-Wikipedia

***The photo at left is of Herman with his aunt, Peggy Parish, in 1985.

Reviews

[Anna Salvesen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amelia Bedelia's class goes on a trip to her dad's work. Her dad works in a place called Professional Park where he tries to find jobs for people. Once they get to his work, they all draw what they would want their work to be. Amelia Bedelia drew an idea park like the professional park.

Cliff was helping Amelia Bedelia throw her idea out, but then Clay crumpled it up and used it as a soccer ball. The teachers and workers asked whose paper it was and Amelia Bedelia said it was hers. They all agreed that there were really good ideas in there.

[Lynsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I love about the Amelia Bedelia books is that, in being so literal, she shows the complexities of the English language to young readers who are struggling to learn all the idiosyncrasies themselves. Parish also teaches kids new things throughout the whole book. I've always been entertained by these books, and I think kids would eat them up. Figuratively, of course.

[Natelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amelia Bedelia brings her confused sense of humor to the job site in this cute chapter book. She even gets to hear other people's experience with misunderstanding slang and idioms. Very amusing and very quick to read for an adult. Hoping my daughters love these as much as I do.

[anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love reading the Amelia bedelia books thay are the most funny books ever the way she takes things so series is what makes it so funny to me

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

It talks about feeling and love. I would reccomend it.

[Kamimura]

Have it at home toooooooooo

[Helen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read aloud to my daughter. It wasn't as good as the originals.

[Fenco Chen]

Lexile®: 680L

[Reem 🏰 ⋆☽˚.⋆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

[Katy Morford]

Read with Ella 8/25

[Colin Altevogt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this to my son.

[Haelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought Amelia on the Job was really funny! I finished it the day it came out, I couldn’t put it down!

This is ninth and newest book in the Amelia Bedelia series. The main character is a girl named Amelia Bedelia, who gets confused by the meanings of words. Like all the Amelia Bedelia books, Amelia Bedelia did not understand when there are two ways to say stuff, like “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” means not to throw away the good parts when you get rid of the bad parts.

This book was different from the earlier books, because it had pictures on almost every page. Maybe that's why it took so long to come out.

My favorite part of this book was when Amelia Bedelia’s teacher asked her to write her profile on a piece of paper and Amelia Bedelia drew a profile of her face instead. How funny!

I did not like when Amelia Bedelia said, “money in a bowl,” because that is disgusting since money is dirty and I wouldn’t want to eat it.

If I were Herman Parish I would ask the illustrator Lynne Avril to draw faster, or maybe draw less pictures so the next book could come out even sooner!

I will tell my friends to read this book, especially my friend Daisy, because there is a little girl named Daisy in this book, just like her. I wish there was a book with a little girl named Haelyn in it, but my name is unique, so I guess I’ll just have to write it myself.

[AprilSLib · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this installment of the Amelia Bedelia series, the kids in Amelia’s class are doing a project where they have to find out what their parents do for a living. Most of the kids are confused because of professional jargon. For example, one kid thinks his dad is a custodian because often complains about “cleaning up messes” at work, but it turns out that he is actually a lawyer. In the same way, Amelia is convinced that her dad is a coach because he works on slides and pitches, but the truth is something entirely different.

It has been ages since I picked up an Amelia Bedelia book. My first memories of my local library are picking out Amelia Bedelia books. I did not know that there were new ones, let alone Juvenille fiction versions for a slightly older Amelia. Even though it was heavily nostalgia that drove me to choose this, I was able to see it in a new light. I feel like kids would be driven to ask about their own parents’ jobs after reading this book. It also opens their eyes to some of the careers that are out there and some of the language that is used in them. It is never to early for a kid to start dreaming about what they want to do.

[Shelly Kraus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amelia Bedelia On the Job takes a love able character back to childhood. Amelia still takes things literally and readers will still love the hilarity that those situations bring. In this book, number 9 in the series, Amelia and her classmates are learning about careers. During the course of their research, they learn bean counter don't count beans,and it its ok to think outside the box. Students will love the humor of the story. Good story that will have fans asking for others from the series.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy reading Amelia Bedelia with the kids, and we found this at the library and hadn't read it so we tried it out. The same literal jokes are used throughout, but I like the picture books with this young Amelia Bedelia better than this chapter book. The story itself didn't follow a very good arc with no clear problem that was solved and ended abruptly. The kids liked me reading it though, and the jokes are still moderately funny. Could be a good beginning chapter book for kids to read.

[Caitlyn Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Gina]

Finished 6/20/16

[Ms. Garr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Grade 2 and up; ninth installment in the latest Amelia Bedelia reboot, where Amelia is in elementary school but still the bright, literal character from the older series. In this story Amelia and her classmates learn about different professions when they take a field trip to her dad's office. Just right for a Chandler student who's reading chapter books, this story is fun and pretty educational too. At the Chandler Library.