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Holt, Kimberly Willis

Dinner with the Highbrows: A Story About Good (or Bad) Manners

32 pp. | Holt/Ottaviano | April, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-8088-9 $17.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker. In preparation for dinner with the Highbrow family, Bernard Worrywart's mother teaches him all about manners. However, when the protagonist finally dines with the unruly clan, they break every rule he's learned. The book teeters on pedantic, but the humor (which includes burping, singing at the table, and other shenanigans) and animated oil-paint and cut-paper illustrations keep it from falling over the edge.
Reviewer: Chelsey Philpot

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