The 29th Annual Book Report Competition
For Secondary School Students
Class: 3A
Name: Wong Chak Daren
Title: Katie Kazoo Switcheroo, Free the Worms!
Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Penguin Group
The name of this book is called “Katie Kazoo Switcheroo, Free the Worms!”.
The author of this book is Nancy Krulik. I had chosen this book because the cover of
this book is about school life and reptiles. I am interested in learning reptiles.
The main theme of this story was the problems caused by the magic wind. Katie
was affected by the magic wind and she was the one who needed to solve the
problems. The main characters of this story are Katie, a kind girl, Mr. G., a teacher of
class 4B and George, Jeremy and Kelvin, the members of the band. This story began
in the house of Katie. Katie’s puppy was barking at the squirrel on the tree. In the
middle part of the story, magic winds are mentioned. The magic wind turned Katie
into snakes, puppy and a security guard. To end up the story, the band was broken
apart and Katie made a T-shirt for the band and three bandmates finally made it up.
I think the part of Katie was turned to Slinky, a snake in class 4A by the magic
wind was the most interesting part of the story. Katie wanted to stay in the classroom
and draw a picture of Slinky to make Mr. G. to be happier. Katie found that the view
of Slinky was blocked by a wood. As there were no people in the classroom, she took
Slinky out of the cage. When she was taking Slinky out of the cage, she felt a strong
wind blowing to her and the wind was so horrible and annoying. She turned into
Slinky. Katie turned back to herself before Mr. G. was back. Unfortunately, Slinky
disappeared. Lastly, Katie and Mr. G. found Slinky in a backpack.
I thought this book was very educational. It taught me to respect lives. In the
story, Mr. G. asked the students to pick up worms on the floor to feed Slinky but Katie
ignored Mr. G. because she thought the worms had their own lives and should not be
eaten by Slinky. I learnt from Katie. No matter how the lives are small we still need to
respect them and don’t kill them. Although Katie hated the slippery and muddy
worms, she still paid her effort to protect the little worms.
This book was also meaningful. To make the best happen, I should cooperate
with the others that I learnt from this book. Just like in a band, no one can be
neglected. Every member of a band is important as all of the bandmates playing
different instruments. If someone is neglected in the band, the piece of music played
by the band will not be perfect enough.
I liked this book as Mr. G. taught a lot about reptiles and I learnt the habitat and
the characteristics of most of the reptiles especially snakes. Snakes shed when they
grow up. Their new skin will change to a bigger and fitter size of the snakes. The most
suitable food for snakes is worms and snakes eat worms in the nature.
I didn’t like three students in this book. They are George, Jeremy and Kelvin
grouping a rock music band as I didn’t like listening to rock music. As they were only
children, they couldn’t play good music. I suggested that they could learn more from
their music teacher because their performance was not well.
If I was the author, I would like to add a new main character to this story. I
thought Katie was lonely in school. She stayed in the classroom alone to draw a
picture of Slinky. Therefore, I thought a friend should be added to Katie. So, this
friend could play with Katie.
If I had a chance to spend a day with one of the character in the story, I would
choose Mr. G. because I thought he was clever. He thought of a solution to find Slinky
and he was a teacher teaching science. I thought we would gather in a coffee shop and
discuss how he could become a teacher. He could BE calm when facing problems.
This book reminds me that I need to cooperate with others in group work. We
should respect the right of other lives. In conclusion, this book is full of funny
characters and has the unthinkable plot. I have learnt a lot of features of reptiles in this
book.