Book Review

Title: Stuart’s Cape
Author: Sara Pennypacker

Every little boy wants to get into mischief and go on adventures, but truly amazing adventures only happen to people with capes. In Stuart’s Cape by Sara Pennypacker Stuart, a bored little boy, longs to go on adventures and see the world. He finds a box of old ties, and with a little creative imagination he builds the perfect cape to help him out. This easy transitional chapter book finds Stuart having just moved to a new town and getting very worried about the upcoming school year. He is bound and determined to get in some adventures before the new school year starts, and he gets lost going to the bathroom or won’t have any friends. Since he still has a couple days left of summer he dons his cape and amazing things happen. He has a dinosaur friend; he sleeps on toast and flies over the neighborhood all the while making some new friends on the way. This spectacular book will capture the interest of its reader and bring them into the whimsical world of Stuart and his wonderful cape.

Pennypacker, S. Stuart's Cape. Illus. Martin Matje. New York NY: Scholastic/Orchard Books, 2002.

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