Angleberger uses a unique story to teach kids to think deeper, believe in themselves, and not get so hung up on appearances. I could picture this nerdy little kid with a finger puppet attracting all the attention, and I could feel the embarrassment of Tommy, Harvey, and Kellen, who are forced to sit with him at lunch. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda is a book that’s both fun and funny. The book uses typewritten and handwritten fonts to make it look like a compilation of journal entries, and the background of each page looks like crumpled paper. And their friend, Kellen, has doodled throughout the book. Tommy’s friend, Harvey, who doesn’t believe in Origami Yoda at all, puts in his two cents at the end of each story, but Tommy gets the last word. So Tommy creates a case file in which the kids whose lives have been changed by Origami Yoda tell their stories. Is Origami Yoda real and tapping into the Force? That doesn’t make sense either because he’s a paper finger puppet whose voice sounds nothing like Yoda in the movies even if his weird sentence structure is spot on. Is Dwight pretending to be Origami Yoda? That doesn’t make sense because Dwight is an oddball and Origami Yoda is so wise. The book is told from the point of view of Tommy, who really, really needs to know if Origami Yoda is real - and the answer will determine how he proceeds with the girl he really, really likes. He dispenses advice on everything from whether or not to ask a girl to dance to how the least athletic boy in the class can finally do well in softball. Origami Yoda is just as wise as the Yoda we know and love in the movies. Dwight, known as the class weirdo, one day puts Origami Yoda on his finger and asks people to talk to him. In The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Tom Angleberger tells the story of a group of 6th graders whose lives are forever changed by a paper finger puppet. And when The Girl put the book on her “Best Books of 2010” list, I knew I had to read it. But Yoda rocks, and this book has an eye-catching cover. I’m not a huge Star Wars fan in fact, I only just watched the original movies for the first time a few months ago. I was intrigued by The Strange Case of Origami Yoda when The Girl (age 10) bought it from her school’s book fair. (from The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, page 5) I bet even Origami Yoda would tell him that, if he would just listen. You can’t go around school with a paper Yoda on your finger talking to people. But Dwight didn’t download instructions he actually created his own Origami Yoda.īut it’s one thing to make a paper Yoda, and it’s another to ask people to talk to it. There are a bunch of them on the Internet. Dwight’s not the first person in the world to make an Origami Yoda, of course.
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