The Horn Book Guide

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Huget, Jennifer LaRue

How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | May, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84410-2 $16.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Edward Koren. A girl gives hilariously bad advice on cleaning one's bedroom: e.g., "Always wait until your mother hollers, 'GET UP THERE AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM--NOW!' using all three of your names." Huget is uncommonly attuned to a kid's sensibility, and New Yorker cartoonist Koren's inimitable style--shaggy contour lines; beak-nosed, somewhat dowdy-looking characters--seems tailor-made for this mess-filled comic gem.

Reviewer: Nell Beram