Icky Ricky The End of the World by Michael Rex
This is a very eventful read! It kept my attention long enough to read the entire book in one setting! I sat down and read this book in less than thirty minutes.
Icky Ricky is a typical B O Y. He loves mud, boogers, pizza, and baseball. Ricky and his friends were outside practicing hitting various household objects when the doorbell rang. The three boys went inside to check it out. To their surprise, it was a pizza delivery man at the door! Their dad didn't order pizza, they didn't order pizza... Who does this pizza belong to? 220 Longview Road was the address on the pizza box. But, that wasn't Ricky's address. He and his friends set out on an adventure to deliver this pizza to the correct residence. Long story short, the boys planned a funeral for the pizza because they absolutely destroyed it on their adventure. They buried the pizza blob (you will have to read the book to understand how the pizza is now a blob!) with a plate, knife, pencil, paper, baseball hat, and a tennis ball. Ya know, things it might need in the afterlife. The three boys went on another adventure, but this time their goal was to participate in the Cleanup Day in their town. While the boys were hunting for garbage, they found an abandoned vehicle. Then they found four tires along a trail. The tires rolled down a hill and into the ditch with green water right off of a sewer pipe. Ricky made his own hazmat suit so he could pull the tires out of the "water." I don't want to spoil the book for you, but these boys are always up to something silly! Their imaginations are incredible!
This book has MANY illustrations! I appreciate this since Icky Ricky is one of the first chapter series that students read! And last but not least, I would suggest this book to a 2nd or 3rd grader.
This book sounds like a good read. As far as I am concerned this might be a book to get some boys to read that they would enjoy. This sounds humours and very appropriate for elementary aged kids. I just hope they do not get any ideas!
ReplyDeleteI don't think this book would be something that I would personally read, but my nephews would LOVE it. They are rowdy and mischievous and I think this book is right up their alley. It's great that the author includes lots of illustrations because I think boys can be very visual learners and this will help them to really get into the story.
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