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Davies, Matt
2 Reviews
(3)
K-3
The star of Ben Rides On loves to draw, including not-always-flattering likenesses of his classmates. Unfortunately, his private sketchbook falls into their hands, but Davies cleverly subverts reader expectations of Ben's doom. There's a universality to Ben's plight: what grade-schooler isn't afraid that something private will be made public? The illustrations are artfully exaggerated, making Ben's caricatures all the funnier.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(2)
K-3
Davies puts his wild cartooning imagination to good use in this book about a boy, his bicycle, and a bully. When Ben gets to school, bully Adrian Underbite takes his bike--then rides it over a cliff. Only Ben can rescue him. Will he? Each line of Davies's work--both text and illustrations--is filled with motion or humor, and usually both.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2013
2 reviews
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