The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister

About this book

Ernestine is in over her head. Monday through Sunday Ernestines week is packed with after-school lessonstuba knitting sculpting water ballet yoga yodeling and karate. Overwhelmed and exhausted Ernestine decides to take matters into her own hands and heads off to the park with her Nanny where she builds a fort watches the clouds and plays all kinds of unstructured and imaginative games. But when a teacher calls Ernestines mom to report that she has not shown up for yodeling her parents search everywhere until at last they hear their daughters laughter coming from the park. Ernestine tells her parents what a wonderful afternoon shes had and explains her plight asking "I like my lessons but cant I stop some of them?" This saga hilariously captures the dilemma of the modern-day over-scheduled child in riotous color and absurd extremes. A delightful heroine Ernestine will be sure to put play back on everyones agenda demonstrating that in todays overscheduled world everyone needs the joy of play and the simple wonders of childhood.