The Fortune Teller

The Fortune Teller is about a young carpenter with many questions about his future. So he goes to a fortune teller. He asks the fortune teller 3 questions. The questions ask if he will be rich, famous or find true love. The Fortune Teller tells him he will be rich... if he works hard and finds a good job, he will be happy... if he avoids being miserable, and he will find true love... if he finds her and she says yes. But then when the carpenter leaves the room he realizes he has so many more questions. So, he goes back only to find the Fortune Teller is not there. He puts on the hat and holds the crystal ball the teller had. All of a sudden the a woman comes to evict the teller, but she sees the carpenter thinking that he is the Fortune Teller and he made himself young. Then the real Fortune Teller vanishes and the carpenter got everything he wanted. Fame, riches, a good life and true love.  

The characters are the Fortune Teller, the Carpenter, the landlord. The fortune Teller tricks people into thinking he can tell their fortune and then after the Carpenter sees him he vanishes. The Carpenter is just looking for a better life, which he ends up getting. Everything the fortune teller told him came true. The landlord sets out to evict the real fortune teller but ends up getting her fortune told by the carpenter. 

This book was...OK. It wasn't one of my favorites. I think it is because it was far from my reading level. So, that made it a little boring to listen to. It was very basic. I was never a really big fan of picture books.

Because we read this book out loud, I took notes on the book and when we discussed the book, I would write down all my predictions and then I would write what actually happened. 

 

Lloyd Alexander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 30, 1924. At age 15 he decided he wanted to be an author. He dropped out of teachers college to join the Army and was stationed in Paris.