All rights reserved. Winner of the 1998 Christopher Award, The Paterson Prize for Children's Literature and the Hodge Podge Award, National Parenting Publications Awards Honor Book, and the American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. In this collection of three short stories for beginning readers, Bertie learns through trial and error that making friends, playing the saxophone, and getting a strike at the bowling alley take hard work and patience - and sometimes a little magic. Brisson's text is lighthearted and even-handed as the intrepid Bertie marches resolutely from adventure to adventure. This is going to be a favorite readaloud for a lot of kids, and a favorite for their grown-ups, too.
Exaggerated pencil sketches that add humor and heighten interest appear on every two-page spread.
A fitting addition. The title alone will attract readers. Boyds Mills Pr. Wanda discovers a bare, thorny bush in an abandoned lot and is convinced it is a rosebush, despite her neighbors' gentle reminders that it isn't. When Wanda invites them to a tea party in her rose garden a month later, everyone is in for a surprise.