I Don't Want To Be a Pea (2012)
by Ann Bonwill-Simon Rickerty
ISBN: 9780192780188
Interest Level by AR: Lower Grade Reading Level by AR: Gr.1.7
Age: 6+ UK Equivalent: Key Stage 1
Synopsis: Hugo is in no doubt as to what he
and Bella should go as to the Hippo-Bird Fancy Dress Party. They will go
as the princess and the pea and he will be the princess (of course!)
leaving poor Bella to be the pea. Indignant, Bella refuses. She has a
better suggestion - they will go as a mermaid on a rock and she will be
the mermaid (of course!) leaving a huffy Hugo to be the rock. Hugo is
not happy. But neither is Bella. They just can't decide on a costume and
things reach a crisis when theyboth flounce off saying they don't want
to go to the party at all. After time to consider, both Hugo and Bella
calm down and (privately) both choose to dress as a pea as a gesture of
making it all up to each other. So when they both arrive at the party as
peas, Hugo and Bella announce proudly that they are "two peas in a pod,
just as it should be" underlining the message of the book that
friendship is all about give and take. (Credits to Follett)
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