Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Skates: Updated Edition with Paperdolls

This book was very different. I picked it up because it looked old from the illustrations on the cover and I was interested to see what the story was about. It looked like a Christmas story about ice skating but it was far from it. This story was about three sisters Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka who

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each got a pair of new white ice skates for Christmas! They took them out to go ice skating one day with their dog Mike, and met a boy named Bertie who had a blue sled. They were all playing around until suddenly Mike and Bertie fell into the thin ice! Flicka, Ricka and Dicka pulled them out and took them home to get warm and dry off. Once Bertie was all dry and feeling better, he we went home but the next day came back with gifts for the family. Then Bertie, the sisters, and the dog Mike had a "chocolate party" and that was the end of the story. I thought that the story was very random and scattered, I didn't like much except for the illustration. The font was large for children and filled the whole page. Under each illustration there was a sentence from the previous page explaining what was going on. For example, on page 14 under the illustration it read "Mike and Bertie fell through into the cold water" even though on page 13 it talked more in detail about the accident. Also, every time the three sisters were mentioned they were always mentioned in order, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka. It was a nice book, I just didn't like the plot.

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