The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Feiffer, Jules

I'm Not Bobby!

32 pp. | Hyperion/di Capua | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-7868-0906-X $$15.95

(2) PS An independent little boy escapes an adult's irritating summonses by becoming a succession of vehicles and creatures and making ever-more-distant escapes. Eventually, hunger brings him home, but still in disguise, and "they better let me watch TV. Or I'll eat them." Bobby's monologue appears in an assertive type, the adult's exhortations in swashes of flowing script that counterpoint the exuberantly drawn illustrations.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2001