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Junior Chapter Book #2: Let's Bowl (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)

Junior Chapter Book #2: Let's Bowl (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)
By Amy Keating Rogers

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Madame Foster is in big trouble. Her archrival, Flo, has just stolen all the players on her bowling team - right before the championship game. Madame Foster is certain she'll lose. But Mac is determined to help Madame Foster win big. So he finds new players among the Imaginary Friends at Foster's. And some of them turn out to be real ringers! Unfortunately, Mac isn't such a hot bowler himself. Can he master the art of the strike in time to win the big game?

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #965269 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 64 pages

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Great Adaption of The Big Lablooski5
This novellization of The Big Lablooski was written by none other than Amy Keating Rogers - the writer of the episode! Not meaning to begrudge junior novellization authors their jobs, but I think this is a fantastic practice and I hope Cartoon Network encourages more of their writers to handle junior novellizations. This is excellently written, fast-paced and quirky.

Great intro to chapter books5
This book, along with "House of Bloo's", was our son's first foray into true chapter books. My wife and I specifically picked books based on "Foster's", as he enjoys the show and we thought it would keep him focused.

It's hard for a printed book to capture the quirky humor of the show, but the writers did a good job in adaptation. All the funny parts of the TV episode are there, though it certainly helps to have seen the episode to appreciate the humor. Fortunately, whoever's responsible for the book's layout did a great job of including a judicious amount of stills and images. So even if you haven't seen the episode, you still get a nice visual representation of it.

And the book is written just long enough and with just enough five-dollar words to present a challenge to a 5-year old, but not so tough that reading becomes a frustration or the child is asking you for help on every other word.

I plan on buying all future chapter books in this series, or at least until my son's interest in the show starts to wane or he is no longer challenged by the reading level.

BTW - the title of the episode featured in the story is not "Let's Bowl". It's actually "The Big Lablooski". Just in case you wanted to Tivo it.