The Secrets of Ms. Snickle's Class - booktalk: intermediate - Review

By Laurie Miller Hornik; illustrated by Debbie Tilly. Clarion, 2001; 135 pages; $15 (Gr 2-5). Ms. Snickle has only one important rule in her unusual classroom: No telling secrets. Each student has one: Oliver sometimes wets the bed, Eva used to be a swan, and Dennis's mother is also the Tooth Fairy. The most astonishing secret of all is that at the push of a secret button, Ms. Snickle's classroom, each day after school, transforms into her apartment. Bossy Lacey decides to spy on everyone in her class and discover their deepest secrets.

ACTIVITY: Have children imagine they are students in Ms. Snickle's extraordinary class and write their own chapters about silly made-up "secrets."

JUDY FREEMAN, children's literature consultant and workshop presenter (BKWSSF@aol.com), is the author of several books including More Books Kids Will Sit Still For (Bowker/Greenwood, 1995).

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