Meticulous Maddy

About the Book

Obsessive compulsive or just meticulous? That is the question. Meticulous Maddy is a children’s poem which teaches children to use the word meticulous.  There isn’t a teacher or parent anywhere who hasn’t secretly wished that his/her children would stop using the words crazy or stupid to describe everything! Read the poem over and over and your child will surprise you when he/she begins to use the word as well.  From constantly cleaning to doing things over and over to get them right, Maddy seems to be a perfectionist, but is she really, or is she just meticulous?!  Follow the pictures which show just how meticulous Maddy really is, and let the colors of Alijah McCormick’s illustrations jump off the page to entice your child to read and use “grown-up” words.

About the Author

Julie C. Hook, Ph.D. was born in N.C. and graduated from Mars Hill Baptist College in 1973.  She moved to Elkhart, IN, in 1983 and has been teaching English for the past 27 years. She earned a Master’s Degree in Education in 1988 from Indiana University at South Bend, and her doctorate in English from La Crosse University in 2004.  She is currently at Elkhart Central High School in Elkhart, IN, where she is the English Department Chair and teaches Advanced Composition and Creative Writing.  This is her first in a series of children’s books which she hopes will teach younger students to use larger vocabulary words in both speaking and writing.  If you enjoy Meticulous Maddy, look for Gregarious Greta, Facetious Freida, Pretentious Patti and others to come. You may contact her at jhook@blueblazers.org.