Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair

Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair is a book about books. In this story, Aunt Chip is an old lady and has taken to bed since her entire town has forgotten about books and confides solely in television. Every sort of entertainment in the town comes from televisions and after closing the library, all the books in the town were used for propping open doors, holding stuff on them, and creating the Triple Creek Dam. When Eli, Aunt Chip’s nephew asked her to teach him to read, all the children in the town wanted to learn as well. Soon the children began taking books from everywhere to read.

Once Moby Dick was taken from the Triple Creek Dam, the dam broke free. Water rushed through the town, destroyed the television tower, and turned off all the TVs. This opened up the town’s eyes to books and that they needed to learn to read. Aunt Chip soon regained her once beloved occupation as town librarian and the city thrived with all sorts of entertainment.

This was a great book and a definite read aloud for a introducing a reading unit, or before going to the library.