The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Hughes, Ted

My Brother Bert

40 pp. | Farrar | March, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-39982-5 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson. "Pets are the Hobby of my brother Bert," an unnamed girl announces. At first it seems tame enough, but Bert's menagerie includes Gorilla and Lion, not to mention Pangolins, Ocelot, and Grampus. After the mischief-making narrator releases the pets, chaos ensues, shown in Pearson's cheerfully riotous watercolors. Hughes's verse is light and loose--just right for such a "house-shaking rumpus."

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2009