Be the Book Report

In our county, 4th grade is the year of the book report.

4thGrader's first book report was to be presented by cutting a face-sized hole in a piece of poster-board and then decorating it so that he could become a character from the book. He read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and he chose to become Willy Wonka to deliver his book report. I remember my mother reading that book to my brother and me when I was only four, and while 4thGrader has seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on video, he had never read the book.