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I Feel Five! (2014)

by Bethanie Deeney Murguia(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0763662917 (ISBN13: 9780763662912)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: Fritz is turning five. Then when his birthday arrives he still feels like a four-year-old. He thinks of all the things that will make him feel five, such as eating five birthday pancakes, tying his shoes, whistling, snapping his fingers, and doing two monkey bars at time. When he can't do some of these things, he feels four years old until a little girl asks him to reach an apple off the apple tree. Perfect for those birthday kids who think changing to a new age will be a sudden change. Haven't we all felt that way!
review 2: Will Fritz wake up FEELING five on his birthday? Will being five really feel differently than being four? Fritz thinks so. At least in the beginning. He has this idea in his mind of what it will be like to be five, what it will feel like. ... moreUltimately, he's disappointed for most of the book. What he does day-to-day at five is essentially the same as what he did day-to-day when he was four. There does come a point in the book where Fritz does start feeling five. This happens when he helps a girl. He helps her by picking an apple for her from the tree. Something he can do--just barely--by jumping in his brand-new shoes. I Feel Five! is an almost book for me. The premise makes sense, in a way; people of all ages can have high expectations of BIG birthdays and be a little disappointed at the sameness. And it does handle the concept of disappointment relatively well. It is a thoughtful book. But it isn't exactly a happy again-again read-aloud. It's not funny or playful or sweet. less

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