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The Biggest Poutine in the World
Written by Andrée Poulin
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Thomas would do anything to make his mother come back. On his fifth birthday, Thomas’s mother left, and he hasn’t seen her since. The last thing he remembers is her making a delicious dish of poutine for his birthday. Into the concoction of French fries, gravy and melted cheese curds, she stuck five green candles for him to blow out.
On the day of this twelfth birthday, Thomas comes up with the idea of setting a Guinness world record for the biggest poutine in the world. Maybe then, his mother will come back and his emotionally distant father will pay attention to him. As he puts together all the pieces of his “Phenomenal Poutine Project,” Thomas not only learns why his mother disappeared, but he also comes to realize that Elie, the one person whose help he rejected, turns out to be his most devoted friend. Funny and heartbreaking at the same time, The Biggest Poutine in the World, was the winner of the French language 2014 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.
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Monday, January 16, 2017
Silver Birch Express - The Biggest Poutine in the World
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I like the story of the book but there were some things I did not like.
1. The book had many swears/inappropriate words.
2.The story was inappropriate in some parts.
3. There was not much detail in the chapters.
4. The author made a new chapter every time he/she was supposed to make a new paragraph.
5. The end of the story did not have a proper ending.
Right now I feel like a teacher who is marking her student's work. The Silver Birch book club has kids that are in grade one and this book would be really bad for them. I will not recommend this book to anyone because I don't want to get in trouble for recommending inappropriate books to kids. Once again, I have said it before and I will say it again, just because I do not like the book that does not mean that others will not like it.
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