The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Ahlberg, Allan

A Bit More Bert

32 pp. | Farrar | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32489-1 $$16.00

(1) PS Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. Bert is back, with six more chapters detailing his hapless but oddly satisfying adventures. Ahlberg metaphorically grabs us by the lapels and hauls us into the book: in the funniest and most subversive example, he orders us to give Bert a haircut that quickly turns into a disaster ("Careful...not too much. Oh no!"). Briggs's illustrations are sublime, with Bert evoked in all his cherry-nosed, red-haired affability.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2002