A review by emkoshka
Amelia Bedelia Means Business by Lynne Avril, Herman Parish

3.0

This can't live up to the charm of the original stories by Peggy Parish, but her nephew Herman keeps the fun alive with a young Amelia Bedelia stumbling her way through the baffling world of idioms like 'step on it', 'cutting the mustard' and 'to meet halfway'. It reminds me of my Dutch Mum getting to grips with the English language in the 1980s and interpreting literally the phrase 'Time to hit the road'. I never thought of her as such, but I think Amelia Bedelia could be the poster child for Asperger's, at least in her literalism.