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Children's Running Book Review:
Pellie Runs A
Marathon
by: LetsRun.com Reader Monte Wells
October 31, 2006
Michele Bredice Craemer has written a delightful children's book with Pellie
Runs a
Marathon
. The book manages to reflect timeless lessons about perseverance and
can-do attitude without becoming trite and cliched.
And what better place to learn those lessons than on a 26.2 mile journey with
Pellie the duck? Craemer, an experienced marathoner herself, traces Pellie's trials,
including heat, hills, and the dreaded wall, up to her joyous sprint across the
finish line. Children will have practical counting skills reinforced as Pellie
forges on mile after mile, and they will enjoy the funny rhymes, but the
best lessons will be learned by seeing Pellie deal with obstacles along the way.
Elizabeth Lavin's bouyant
illustrations of Pellie, her friends, and her fans round out a nice little gift
book for the little ones in your life.
Monte Wells has been a runner and English teacher for
over twenty years. He has run seven marathons including
Boston
. He is married with two girls and lives in Texas
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