Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you note for each one by tomorrow . . . or she will not be allowed to fly to Hollywood to attend a starstudded Hollywood bash with the father she hasn’t seen in three years. And writing thank-you notes is not something that a world-class Creative Type relishes doing. But it is more than writing thank-you notes that finally prevents Moxy from taking her trip. When her father cancels at the last minute, Moxy is forced to deal with the reality of a situation she doesn’t want to accept, and can’t change. But, not surprisingly, she rises to the occasion brilliantly.
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Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes (Moxy Maxwell #2)
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August 12, 2008
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0375842705
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Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you note for each one by tomorrow . . . or she will not be allowed to fly to Hollywood to attend a starstudded Hollywood bash with the father she hasn’t seen in three years. And writing thank-you notes is not something that a world-class Creative Type relishes doing. But it is more than writing thank-you notes that finally prevents Moxy from taking her trip. When her father cancels at the last minute, Moxy is forced to deal with the reality of a situation she doesn’t want to accept, and can’t change. But, not surprisingly, she rises to the occasion brilliantly.
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Gifford, Peggy. 2008. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank You Notes. Illustrated by Valorie Fisher.
I loved, loved, loved the first Moxy Maxwell book, Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little. And this one, the second one, has been on my wish list for over eight months. Moxy is a girl after my own heart.
This book opens several months after the close of the first one. It is Christmas vacation, and Moxy Maxwell has plans--big plans, of course--for how she wants to spend her vacation. And guess what...writing thank you notes is NOT on the list. What Moxy is looking forward to most of all is visiting her father in California. Her and her brother Mark are supposed to be spending half their vacation with him. They haven't seen him for three years (or is it two?) and Moxy is ecstatic. The only thing in her way seems to be the fact that she can't bring herself to write twelve thank you notes to her family, friends, and relatives.
Everything I loved about the first book is present in the second. And then some. The completely original and hilarious voice. The wacky chapter titles. The intricate family relationships. Mark's photographs. But this second book deals with a more serious subject matter--the delicate, often tricky, very complex nature of divorced families. The book is funny, yes. But it's also full of heart.
Here is how the book begins, "It was the day after Christmas and Moxy Maxwell had a list of 13 Things to Do Before Tomorrow. Tomorrow she and her twin brother, Mark, were flying to Hollywood to spend the last week of vacation with their father.
Moxy had been looking forward to this trip for, as she put in, "ages and ages"--ever since her mother called her dad and told him that this year he had to take the twins for the last part of Christmas vacation." (1)
I loved, loved, loved the first Moxy Maxwell book, Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little. And this one, the second one, has been on my wish list for over eight months. Moxy is a girl after my own heart.
This book opens several months after the close of the first one. It is Christmas vacation, and Moxy Maxwell has plans--big plans, of course--for how she wants to spend her vacation. And guess what...writing thank you notes is NOT on the list. What Moxy is looking forward to most of all is visiting her father in California. Her and her brother Mark are supposed to be spending half their vacation with him. They haven't seen him for three years (or is it two?) and Moxy is ecstatic. The only thing in her way seems to be the fact that she can't bring herself to write twelve thank you notes to her family, friends, and relatives.
Everything I loved about the first book is present in the second. And then some. The completely original and hilarious voice. The wacky chapter titles. The intricate family relationships. Mark's photographs. But this second book deals with a more serious subject matter--the delicate, often tricky, very complex nature of divorced families. The book is funny, yes. But it's also full of heart.
Here is how the book begins, "It was the day after Christmas and Moxy Maxwell had a list of 13 Things to Do Before Tomorrow. Tomorrow she and her twin brother, Mark, were flying to Hollywood to spend the last week of vacation with their father.
Moxy had been looking forward to this trip for, as she put in, "ages and ages"--ever since her mother called her dad and told him that this year he had to take the twins for the last part of Christmas vacation." (1)
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Reader reviewed by Lizzie
Moxy Maxwell and her twin brother Mark are supposed to spend the last week of Christmas vacation with their father in Hollywood. They are supposed to go to a big Hollywood party, with big Hollywood stars. But first Moxy has to write twelve thank-you notes for the Christmas presents she received the day before. This task is a lot harder than it seems.
Moxy Maxwell Does not Love Writing Thank-you Notes is short and fun. It did not have the charm that I expect out of a children's book though. The photographs were a nice touch, but in many of them it was hard to tell what was going on, because they were shot in color, but copied in black/white. I felt the chapters were much too short, and I didn't really enjoy the dialog. It tried to be funny but just didn't work out. I would have enjoyed the narrative better if it had been from Moxy's point of view instead of an unknown third person. While the book is OK, I wouldn't recommend it.
Moxy Maxwell and her twin brother Mark are supposed to spend the last week of Christmas vacation with their father in Hollywood. They are supposed to go to a big Hollywood party, with big Hollywood stars. But first Moxy has to write twelve thank-you notes for the Christmas presents she received the day before. This task is a lot harder than it seems.
Moxy Maxwell Does not Love Writing Thank-you Notes is short and fun. It did not have the charm that I expect out of a children's book though. The photographs were a nice touch, but in many of them it was hard to tell what was going on, because they were shot in color, but copied in black/white. I felt the chapters were much too short, and I didn't really enjoy the dialog. It tried to be funny but just didn't work out. I would have enjoyed the narrative better if it had been from Moxy's point of view instead of an unknown third person. While the book is OK, I wouldn't recommend it.
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