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| The World According to Humphrey | 
| Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 38347
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0142403520
EAN: 9780142403525
ASIN: 0142403520
Publication Date: May 5, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
Super book for young readers September 14, 2007
I read this book to my 5 and 7 year old boys. This is a good book for this age group. It has appealing characters, a meaningful story and good plot development. It reminded me a bit of the secret life of bees in that it uses excerpts from a Hamster care manual after each chapter. (Secret life of bees began each chapter with an excerpt from texts on bees and beekeeping). This is a nice feature. I am glad to learn of the two other Humphrey titles. This is a good book to encourage a reader to read on his own. With my seven year old, I read until the story was getting exciting and then laid the book down. Of course he picked it up and continued reading it himself. The suspense was too much.
Hurray for Humphrey!!! March 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is fun for all ages and I strongly recommend this fabulous book. This book is about a hamster who lives in a classroom and the adventures he goes on. Hurray for Humphrey!
This book is great! March 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book aloud in the classroom and it was fabulous. It was neat to read the story from a hamster's perspective and my class just loved to talk about Humphrey. They loved it so much they begged for me to buy the next in the series.
A Hamster's Eye View February 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY is a wonderful book to read aloud to young kids. Told in first-person, the tale conveys a great sense of Humphrey the class hamster and everything that he learns about his class mates and the teacher, whom he believes to be a mean person at first.
Betty G. Birney has struck gold with Humprey, and he's featured in two more books, FRIENDSHIP ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY and TROUBLE ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY. Like the first book, the next two in the series focus on kid issues and the kind of learning that goes on at a young age.
When Ms. Mac purchases Humphrey from the pet store, he doesn't know that he's destined to be placed in Room 26 at the school. Nor does he know that his beloved Ms. Mac is going to leave him there. But she does. However, before she leaves, she tells him to help out the kids and the teacher in the room as much as he can. Humphrey agrees to do that, but he feels very sad.
The emotions that Birney conveys throughout her story is charming. Young readers/listeners will joy at Humprehy's triumphs, and feel sad when they find out the stories of the kids that go to school with him. The way the author paints Humphrey as being looked at but not listened to is something that a lot of kids will probably empathize with. Grown-ups don't always seem to get it when the world is presented through a kid's-eye view.
The chapters are short and punchy, starting and ending a segment of the story that will leave listeners in a good place each time, but still wanting to know what will happen next. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY is a fantastic book to read to youngsters before bedtime. Each chapter only takes a few minutes and is easily understood while containing a lot of emotion.
Teachers who read to their classes will appreciate this book on more than one level. On one hand, the book grabs the listener's attention. On the other hand, many of the stories and problems Humphrey deals with during the course of the book are the same ones the kids might have to deal with during school.
My nine-year-old and I enjoyed the book a lot. I was a little leery of it at first, thinking it might be boring, but there was plenty of action and plenty of emotion. Afterwards, I found that we were talking about a lot of the story problems as my son thought outloud and compared those problems to how he felt at times, and how other kids in his class might feel.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY is entertaining and insightful. And short enough to be read in a few days.
Great story! January 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I teach second grade and am reading this to my class. They are really enjoying the story which is told from the point of view of Humphrey the hamster. The writing is kid friendly and very engaging. If I miss a day the kids are asking me when I'll read about Humphrey again. I bought the other book, Friendship According to Humphrey, and plan on reading that to the kids, also.
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