Review: Taking responsibility for your own actions
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
Leela hope once again gives us a well written rhyming book with excellent illustrations that focuses on a common problem with children (this time it is getting dirty) and offers a way to correct that trait.Gertrude Brown is so filthy that she has earned the nickname Dirty Girtie. She loves to play in mud puddles and was always caked with dirt. Despite her mother's pleading to bathe and wear a clean dress, Dirty Gertie likes to stay dirty - even though that meant that she attracted bugs! One night the bug family responded to her smelly scent and climbed into her bed, and Dirty Gertie awakened frightened. She immediately showered and was so affected by this event that she swore she not be dirty again. Not that that meant she could play in the mud still, but when she went out to play and returned home she cleaned herself up so that she no longer was a smelly attraction to the bug family.This is a fun little book with a fine lesson - the kind of book children  (and parents) love to read as bedtime stories. Grady harp, October 13