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    Nelly May Has Her Say

    By Cynthia DeFelice and Henry Cole

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    Nelly May Nimble and her twelve brothers and sisters live with their parents in a tiny cottage in the Bottoms, where there's never enough food to feed so many hungry mouths. Nelly May decides that she is old enough to earn her keep and takes a job as Lord Ignasius Pinkwinkle's new housekeeper and cook. Along with her many chores, Lord Pinkwinkle also expects Nelly May to learn his own special language. So Nelly May gets to work, using a wet scooperooty to hold the water she mops the floor with and then cooking supper for him, the Most Excellent of All Masters. But late that night, when a spark from the flaming-pop-and-sizzle lands on the fur-faced-fluffenbarker's wigger-wagger, Nelly May puts her foot down. She'll save his roof-topped castleorum, but she will not be his fuzzy-dust-and-fooder any longer. In Nelly May Has Her Say, Cynthia DeFelice and Henry Cole team up for a fun-filled romp that makes a great read aloud.
    A Margaret Ferguson Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 19, 2013
    ISBN9781466830318
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    Nelly May Has Her Say
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    Cynthia DeFelice

    Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors. Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.” Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian. When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can’t pick just one answer: “I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new.” Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.

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    • 5/5
      Compromising could be a theme for this story. The Lord has to let go of his strange wording if he wants Nelly to put out the fire and come work for him again. The strange language that The Lord makes up adds a curiosity to the story and fun wordplay.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book because I liked the words. I thought they were funny. I also liked the ending but I can't tell you why because I don't want to spoil it! Nelly May was also a very clever girl. I liked reading about her. :) From, Margaux
    • 3/5
      Cute enough - but I'm glad they didn't dwell on the size of the heroine's family, because I cannot bring myself to countenance having 13 children when you're clearly in a position to support only 2 or 3.
    • 3/5
      I enjoy the story line and the issue's Nelly May faces. I think it is a great depiction of standing your ground and being who you are.
    • 3/5
      Fun retelling of an English folktale with lots of wordplay. Kids can be encouraged to do their own.
    • 5/5
      This is a folktale about a young girl from a large family who decides to go work for the Lord up the street. When she gets there the man offers her a job but insists that she call things by different names. After doing her duties and practicing the Lord's names for everything Nelly goes to bed. In the middle of the night she is awakened by the dog who has been started on fire. She has to raise the Lord from sleep and use all the names he taught her. In the end she quits because his names were too ridiculous to use. The next morning he comes to her house to ask her to return to work. He says she doesn't have to learn but one name to use and that is to call him Pinky.
    • 3/5
      This witty book is fun for children because of the word play throughout the story. The illustrations are beautifully done by Henry Cole.
    • 3/5
      A cute story of a young girl who goes to work for an eccentric man who has silly names for everything in his house. After one night she quits but he wins her back. This is apparently a spin off another folktale that I am not familiar with. Overall it is a cute fun story about a girl who is smart and capable and saves the day.
    • 5/5
      Great little story, with the master of the house using ridiculous names for common items.