Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up
Author: Herman Parish
Illustrator: Lynne Avril
Book 5 in the Amelia Bedelia series
Pages: 160
Published: 2014
Age: 6+
Young Amelia Bedelia takes to the field, the yoga mat, and the track, with hilarious results!
Amelia Bedelia’s friends and classmates all have a particular sport that they love and are good at. Amelia Bedelia loves sports and games of all kinds, for different reasons. She has fun (and she loves to dribble and dunk and run home), but she is not the fastest or strongest or quickest at anything. Amelia Bedelia would love to have a sport to call her own—and so when her class at school studies the sports of ancient Greece, she goes on a mission to find one!
About the Amelia Bedelia Series
Books in series order
- 1.Amelia Bedelia Means Business(2013)
- 2.Amelia Bedelia Unleashed(2013)
- 3.Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!(2013)
- 4.Amelia Bedelia Goes Wild!(2014)
- 5.Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up(2014)
- 6.Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up(2015)
- 7.Amelia Bedelia Sets Sail(2015)
- 8.Amelia Bedelia Dances Off(2015)
- 9.Amelia Bedelia on the Job(2016)
- 10.Amelia Bedelia Ties the Knot(2016)
- 11.Amelia Bedelia Makes a Splash(2017)
- 12.Amelia Bedelia Digs In(2018)
Reading age: 6+ years
Amelia Bedelia is a well-intentioned girl who believes things mean—well, exactly what they say. If she hears something costs “an arm and a leg” she thinks she’s going to have to pay with her limbs!
Young Amelia’s literal interpretation of common phrases makes for a lot of misunderstandings—and some trouble! But her resilience and persistence shine through in all her humorous and muddled adventures.
Have you ever noticed just how many of these odd sayings there are? Amelia Bedelia’s experiences will have you noting them down!
Short, fast-paced chapters, tons of friends, silly situations, and funny wordplay and misunderstandings make the Amelia Bedelia chapter books an ideal choice for readers of the Ivy and Bean, Magic Tree House, and Judy Moody books. These books are great for building vocabulary, and feature a guide to some of the idioms and expressions introduced in the story, as well as black-and-white pictures by Lynne Avril on every page.