The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Gravel, Elise

A Day in the Office of Doctor Bugspit

40 pp. | Blue Apple | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60905-092-4 $10.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-60905-182-2 $4.99

(4) K-3 Balloon Toons series. Watch Dr. Bugspit (who resembles a pink slug) treat all sorts of patients at his "outer-space clinic." His "modern equipment" includes an electric train set, and among his reference books is How to Sleep at Work. The jokes (punning, silly, gross-out) are good but go on for too long. Creature-populated comics-style art illustrates the tale.

Reviewer: Nell Beram