Richie Rich

By Todd Strasser

Richie Rich is the world's richest kid. But money can't buy you friends as Richie quickly finds out and neither can it buy you happiness, as he also discovers when his parents go missing. This book is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590250922
• ISBN13: 9780590250924
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

a good adaptation of the movie

This movie is a novelization of the movie starring Macaulay Culkin. The movie has a good plot and the novelization offers a few hours of enjoyable reading.However, I could not get not get used to the character changes. The scientist on the Rich estate is changed to an overeating endomorph. Richie's girlfriend is given a Polish surname and moved to a single-parent home. Nor did I like the cryptic advertising for McDonald's, Radio Shack, and a few other corporations. However, these defects are not the fault of Strasser. On the contrary, Strasser does a fine job.You might find it interesting to compare this novelization with the one by Horowitz (0590250868). Why one publisher would commission two novelizations of one movie is a mystery, but it doubles our reading pleasure.

A Good Rich Story

I read the book Richie Rich by Todd Strasser. This book was really fun to read. It wasn't confusing like other books. There weren't too many hard words. I gave this book four stars because it was a funny book and there weren't too many dull spots. I would recommend this book to all kinds of readers.