Grades: 3-6
Committee Annotation: Gathering the first census in 1790 could not be more dangerous... or funny? Enjoy the antics this town provides a weary tallyman.
Subjects: Census, History, 1790, Humor, Vermont, Schemes
Author Web Site: http://www.jacquelinedavies.net/
deering middle school
ReplyDeletewest warwick r.i. this book is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timothy C
ReplyDeleteJB Francis
Warwick
Trickster Town!
Do you want to be trickster? Well you should come to your local library to read Tricking the Tallyman. It’s a tricking book by
S.D. Schindler.
In this book a tallyman comes to a town called Tunbridge in the 1700’s to tally how many people live there. (tally=count)
The tallyman gets tricked 3 times, but I’m only telling you the 1st time. The town thinks the tallyman’s only tallying for soldiers so they hide everyone but one person so the tallyman gets tricked and tally’s one person in Tunbridge, even though the tallyman was tallying for soldiers and government.
My favorite part is when the town tricked the tallyman a 2nd time, when they found out and thought it was just government the tallyman was tallying for. So they tricked him every time he tallied a new house. People from one family went to another family, to make it look like 50 people were in one family. The tallyman then tallied 1,726 people in Tunbridge, but the town still didn’t know the tallyman was tallying for both soldiers and government.
If you want to see how they tricked him the 3rd time, get this book at any library near your house!
A book review by
Timothy
ALAP teacher: Mr. Hornstein
Michaela C
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Warwick
I am happy to have read the book Tricking the Tallyman. The book was happy, exciting, and funny. I liked the book because it is not scary and it’s for all ages.
The title of the book is Tricking the Tallyman. I would like to thank the author of this amazing book, Jacqueline Davies.
This great story is very interesting because it felt like I was sucked back in time! I also liked the problem. I’ll tell you in the next paragraph!
The events that happened in the book are Phineas Bump and his horse Blue rode into the town of Tunbridge to take tallys of the people that live there. The citizens of the town tricked the tallyman twice! First it was because Boston (Mrs. Pepper’s son) says Phineas is taking tally for taxes. Then he says he heard it was for how many men to send to the new government!
My favorite part was when the citizens suited the animals as people to get a higher number! That is my favorite part because the animals look funny!
Will you read the book now? I hope you will! I loved this book, I hope you will too… if you read it!
Steve. A
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Tricking the Tallyman was stupid because it was babyish and has no point.
Nic.M
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I thought Tricking the Tally Man was very stupid and had no point.I also thought it was boring because all they did was trick him and run around town and get counted multiple times.
NK
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I loved this book because the tally man was tricked twice and the third time, it went all fine.
nc
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i liked this becase they tricked the tally man twice at the end they got the right count
dt 4c central i really liked the book triken the tally man because they used animals as people to trick him
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i liked this book because I liked their jokes to trick the tallyman especially when they dressed up animals.
BB
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I LIKE TRICK THE TALLYMAN BECAUSE THEY TRICK HIM WITH THE ANIMALS AND ALSO NOT TO COUNT THEM.
J.H.
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This book was really weird but yet funny.It was funny because it kept on going when the people kept tricking him. I would recommend this book to anyone. it was really long though. :D
A.M
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IN the book Tricking the Tallyman was one of my favorite books because it was funny and it went back and forth with the children and the guy!!!!
:):):)
Helen N.
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I liked the book Tricking The Tally Man because it was funny how the people tried to trick the tally man into giving them more people then less then more again!
ms
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tricking the tally man I think it was not that good of a book because there where too many gaps, I still had questions after the book
BC
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I liked how the familly tricked the tally man 3 times.
Ryan T.
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I did not like this book.I would recommend this book to Kindergarteners - 3rd graders.4th - 6th graders would not really like it!!!! :)
O.R.A
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I like this book because it shows the early colony census.
This book takes place in Vermont!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJM 4C CENTRAL
ReplyDeleteI loved this book because I loved How they tricked the tally Man.
s.n
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I licked this book Tricking The Tally Man. It was really funny. I was glad my teacher read this to my class!!!!!!!!
kids, I want you to vote for tricking the tally man.
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ReplyDeleteI liked this book because it goes back in time to 1790!!! :)
Lincol Central Elementary
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I liked Tricking The Tally Man because it was very facinating book because I thought Mrs.Pepper would get caught.Then they would have to pay a fine.Please vote for book. :D
B. Bessette
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I dissliked the book tricking the tally man. i disliked this book because it was repetittive. everything reapeated. it was boring!