the highest hit

By Nancy Willard

Book Overview

A little girl involves her family and friends in her many schemes, of which the most important is making her mark in the Guinness Book of World Records. "An imaginative style, funny exchanges, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590300512
• ISBN13: 9780590300513
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Scholastic paperback
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A book of silliness for children with imagination

Although Kate, the main character, is crazy about baseball, this is really a book about childhood, that magical time when fantasy and reality are blurred. It is meant to be funny as she and her friends play baseball, have unusual pets such as caterpillars and germs, and interact with their unusual relatives and neighbors. It involves a holy man with an actual shrunken head, baseball lessons as a birthday present, a young girl with a crush on a priest, a magic shop, a magic show where Kate sticks her head into a guillotine and other similar silliness. A quirky book, the picture on the cover where a female in what looks like a formal dress is winding up to whack a baseball with her bat can sum up the story. It is a fun book for children to read; you really do not know what is going to happen next.

The Highest Reivew for The Highest Hit

Kids, Have you ever dreamed to be in the Guniess Book of World Records than this is your book! I felt this book showed a lot of humor. It made you feel like you were going through the funny incidents with Kate. I highly recommend this book for pleasure reading or teaching in a classroom. I hope you will take my review into considerration. Thank- you for reading my review.