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About This Passage
This is a gentle, funny moment right after a scary chapter. It teaches young children that a writer can turn a hurt body into a joke — bow knots, bright rags, 'looked like a Christmas package' — without making the hurt itself less real. Copying it trains the ear to hear comedy that cares.
Daisy was a little more artistic with her doctoring than Mama was. She wrapped Rowdy's monkey bites with all kinds of bright-colored rags and tied them in bow knots. When she was through with him, he ...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Chapter 8 in three or four sentences. Include Daisy wanting to chain Jay Berry to a fence post, the wheelbarrow ride for Rowdy, and Grandpa's big news about the monkey's name.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Daisy is TRYING to be like a real nurse, not just playing pretend?
- What in the story tells you WHY Rowdy hid under the house after Daisy doctored him?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
small pieces of old cloth torn from bigger clothes
Item 2
tight twists you tie to hold string or rope together
Item 3
covered all the way around with something like paper or cloth
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