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	• The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles Julie Edwards Demco Media, 1989 average customer review:based on 275 reviews
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highly recommended

Best Childhood Memories

This was my all time favorite book as a child. I read it in the 4th grade and loved all the imagination and invention in this book! Very creative! Plus, I love Julie Andrews Edwards; not only a wonderful actress, but a wonderful author!

The Reason Why I Love to Read

My second grade teacher read me this book and it is the reason I love to read. I am now going to college, and I could not be more grateful to my teacher for reading this amazing book to us. So many colorful images, fun characters, and a thrilling plot. I remember sitting enthralled on the carpet, mouth hanging open, waiting for my teacher to utter the next word.

For all of those parents and teachers out there, I highly recommend this book, it's a classic and I love it!

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The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

This is such a classic children's fantasy book! I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't get to read it as a kid, but I am glad that I found it later on. It seems like it would make a really great read-aloud to a group of students. As often seen in children's fiction, a lot of it is really convenient, parts of it are really predictable, but it all makes for a great story, and there are some great suspenseful bits along the way. There are a lot of smaller conflicts that quickly get resolved, under the umbrella conflict of finding the Whangdoodle, and then the greatest conflict of all that isn't revealed until near the end. A really cool part of this book is its exposition to vocabulary through the Professor's narration. I'm really glad we didn't get the cop out "it was all a figment of their imaginations/a dream" ending. I'm also really glad that in the end, it's a story about the Professor and the realization of his dream, rather than a focus on the kids, although they are still a big part of the story. There are parts of the book near the ending that do get a little preachy, but it's still a fantastic fantasy read for kids and their parents/teachers.

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The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

In the fantasy novel The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodless Julie Andrews Edwards crafts a tail so full of description and imagination, you feel like you're in the pages themselves. If you look in the Webster's Dictionary you'll find the word whangdoodle. It means, "Humorous, mythical creature of fanciful and undefined nature.". Now join Ben, Tom, and lindy as they embark on a journey to Whandoodleland to find the last of these amazing creatures. The adventure starts when they meet the Professor, a man with different ideas, at the zoo, after that they visit his house for imagination lessons, so they can reach Whangdoodleland. Then they finally reach it, and journey to the not so unimaginable places within. All readers will enjoy this nicely paced book where imagination can take you anywhere

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Julie Andrews is Magic

My favorite book growing up was Mandy. So when I began to tutor several second graders with exceptional reading skills and was scratching my brain for enjoyable novels we could enjoy together, I immediately wanted to check out the Julie Andrews Collection. I had never read The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles - I couldn't tell you why; I remember wanting more after I put down Mandy but for some reason I never picked this one up.

But as an adult, I did. And I think I loved this novel more than my students. There is nothing more refreshing to me than to discover a well-written children's book, remniscient of Oz and Wonderland and all of my favorite classics. It was as magical for me as it would have been fifteen years ago, because Edwards' writes with the wonder of a child in a way that is anything but childish -- instead, insightful and wise.

Recommended to all. I don't see how you could not be charmed by this book. Period.

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