Reviews for Ira Wordworthy

The average rating for Ira Wordworthy based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-02 00:00:00 Richard Hammond This is one of my favorite beginning books. I really struggled to read when I was younger and really felt for Wordworthy. Some books you can never let go of and this is one of them!!!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-22 00:00:00 Tamara Taylor Stephen E. Cosgrove, Ira Wordworthy (DreamMaker, 1988) Reading Ira Wordworthy at the same time I was reading Artemis Fowl gave me an interesting juxtaposition of kidlit. Cosgrove wrote for a much younger audience than did Colfer, but Cosgrove managed to avoid talking down to his audience. And that makes all the difference. Based on the true story of an illiterate Arkansas shopkeeper, Ira Wordworthy is transformed into the tale of a crotchety old badger (and who can resist a book with a badger as the main character, I ask you?) who runs a town store and cannot abide kids sitting on the front porch reading books. (Would that we had such problems today!) One of the kids discovers that Ira is illiterate and sets about to correct the problem. It's a lovely little parable, and a testament to the idea that you can just get on and tell your story, and the reader will get your point. Eoin Colfer, and many other writers of books for both children and adults, would do well to pay heed to the work of Stephen Cosgrove...