Review by Booklist Review
The delightful mouse siblings, Benny and Penny, are back in their third book. This time, they try to hide all their toys from Cousin Bo when he visits, because Bo tends to break their toys whenever he plays with them. They try to avoid Bo as they go on a treasure hunt, but he keeps wanting to play with them. Hayes, who won the 2010 Geisel Award for Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! depicts another true-to-life situation as the young cousins work out their relationship in a manner authentic to the way children resolve their own issues. The story has just the right amount of conflict and tension for young readers, and Hayes' simple panel and page designs and dialogue balloons continue to provide an easy and appealing introduction to reading and to reading comics.--Kan, Kat Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-At last, Penny and Benny have a reason to get along. Cousin Bo has just arrived on the scene, which means that all of their toys are in imminent danger of being destroyed by their full-speed-ahead relative. They unite in an effort to hide or bury as many things as they can before he descends. Especially at risk is Benny's treasure map that leads to backyard "loot." Bo quickly discovers it and leads the two on a chase as he plays keep-away with it. When he engages in a tug-of-war over Penny's beloved monkey doll, a leg gets ripped off and Benny yells at him for his inability to "Play nice." Bo runs away in anger, but gets caught in a fence and can't free himself. By the end, all has been forgiven. Even Bo redeems himself when he presents Monkey with a get-well card. The cartoon expressions on the characters are priceless and easily "read" by nonreaders. Children will pore over the appealing illustrations and enjoy checking out the interactive website that is dedicated to the Toon characters.-Maggie Chase, Boise State University, ID (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Mouse siblings Benny and Penny are planning to spend the day hunting treasure when-uh-oh-Cousin Bo comes to visit. "Hide all the toys!" commands Benny, but Bo, a baseball-capped bundle of ADHD, manages to find, handle, and wreck the playthings and the plans in short order. While the plot is nothing new, the fun of the book is in the visual counterpoint between the sweetly rustic milieu of Benny and Penny's backyard and the manic slapstick of the action. Hayes's cartooning is witty, expressing much with the glint of an eye or twitch of a whisker, and the neat cartoon panels carefully allow a good beginning-reader balance between information in the pictures and in the ballooned dialogue. From HORN BOOK, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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