Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

By Mem Fox

Illustrated by Julie Vivas
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Edition: illustrated, reprint

Published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Incorporated, 1989

ISBN 091629126X, 9780916291266

30 pages Ages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

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Read by BRADLEY WHITFORD.

Young W.G.M.P. wasn't very old. He lived next door to an old people's home and he knew all the people there and enjoyed their company. His favourite person of all was Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, because she has four names just as he did.

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My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

By Patricia Polacco

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Illustrated by Patricia Polacco

Edition: illustrated

Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994

ISBN 0671727516, 9780671727512

32 pages Ages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Wonderful animated reading aloud by MELISSA GILBERT.
USE THIS FOR READER'S THEATER.
There's nothing worse than a rotten redheaded older brother who can do everything you can do better! Patricia's brother Richard could run the fastest, climb the highest, and spit the farthest and still smile his extra-rotten, greeny-toothed, weasel-eyed grin. But when little Patricia wishes on a shooting star that she could do something -- anything -- to show him up, she finds out just what wishes -- and rotten redheaded older brothers -- can really do. Patricia Polacco's boldly and exuberantly painted pictures tell a lively and warmhearted tale of comic one-upsmanship and brotherly love.

Patricia has an older brother who looks ...

... ""like a weasel with glasses,"" but that's just for starters. The real problem with him -- besides his red wiry hair and his freckles -- is that he's always telling her he can do everything better than she can. He can pick more blackberries, he can eat more rhubarb without puckering; he can run faster, climb higher, burp louder, and spit farther. Worst of all, he's four years older, ""always has been and always will be."" When Patricia's babushka -- her grandmother -- teaches her how to wish on a falling star, Patricia wishes to do something better than he does. She gets her wish and winds up seeing a different side of her brother as well. Polacco's (Babushka Baba Yaga, 1993, etc.; Pink and Say, see below) text is smooth, effortless, and completely natural-sounding. Her drawings are funny and vivacious -- as usual, her characters are drawn with wonderful facial expressions and limbs akimbo. She has the ability to transport you to her settings -- in this case, to a Michigan farm where you can practically feel the sun and smell the pies baking. Polacco has proved time and again that she is masterful both as illustrator and storyteller, and this book is no exception. ... more »

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