Rating: 3/5
This book was quite a short one, and very easy to read, for I only picked it up in the library for five minutes and was finished in fifteen! I think Sara Pennypacker is hilarious and very good at getting the characters interested, even if it is just a quick-read. It is mainly about Clementine and her sort-of-friend-sort-of-enemy Margaret, who could be unreasonable at times. She was also very clean and spotless, and quite sloppy and spoilt at her work. When, of course, she got the slightest bit of glue in her hair, she tripped to the bathroom to try and get it out with scissors. Unfortunately for her, she accidentally cut off the whole left-hand side fringe of it. Clementine followed her in, worried, after a short while.
But the prig nine-year-old girl did not know anything at all spreading things out evenly. She sniffed out to Clementine, “Chop off the other right-hand side of the fringe. I’m sure it’ll look nicer than it all by alone.” So the loyal little girl did, but was not very talented at chopping other people’s hair off, and it was in spikes. Soon she was told to chop off the whole lot, and she did; and then, whence she was home, she felt sorry for Margaret, and cut off her own. Silly, most utterly silly Clementine!
Her father owned the flat apartments. Margaret lived in one of the flats, too. The key to getting people to live in your block is to make it look pretty. Unfortunately, there were a bunch of evil pigeons making a great mess from their behind on the steps, and the carved lion head, and the posh marble pillars outside. But Clementine was very clever. What do you think she would do next? What would her instincts tell her? Join her on her adventures to find out the answers.