As I said in my anticipating post, I was not excited to read this book. I had seen the movie and it had just turned me off completely. And I must say that I did not really enjoy the story. I don't really like bugs and the thought of being trapped on a giant, sticky peach with them is not very appealing. I will say, however, that there was one aspect of the story that I really enjoyed. The rhymes.
We have seen rhymes before in other stories that we have read such as The Hobbit, Redwall and a little in Harry Potter. But I found myself wanting to read these out loud because of their nursery rhyme quality. My favorite was on pages 93 and 94 where the Centipede is reciting one about Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. This part especially:
So she said, 'I must make myself flat.
I must make myself sleek as a cat.
I shall do without dinner
To make myself thinner.'
But along came the peach!
Oh, the beautiful peach!
And made her far thinner than that!
These poems reminded me of the Shel Silverstein poems, which I was a big fan of growing up. Those poems were always about really sad or rude things but it was done in such a sing-song innocent way that they were enjoyable and funny. The epitome of dark humor.
While I did not enjoy the story, these poems made the book fun and added a little twist.
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