Hot Fudge Hero

by Pat Brisson

Book Overview

Bertie learns through trial and error that making friends, playing the saxophone, and getting a strike at the bowling alley take hard work, patience, and time. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590030949
• ISBN13: 9780590030946
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is top-notch. What's not to love here?

Who can't love Bertie. a great kid, a great son, a great big brother,and a very dry-humored, eternal optimist. I wish I had him for my neighbor to brighten my days and make me laugh at his purely gem quality personality. This is a must-have book. Do you know it received the Parent's Choice Honor Award, and the NY Public Library's Award for one of the top 100 book picks for reading and sharing? Can't top that. Love your kids, and make them laugh.Thanks for reading.

Meet Bertie, the hot fudge hero!

Meet Bertie. He and his friend Isobel are off on adventures of the small-but-fun kind in "Hot Fudge Hero". Divided into chapters, each chapter being a small story, he had to get his favorite baseball back from the yard of his cranky neighbor (he has a dog named Attila); his fairy godfather helps him to learn to play the saxaphone (a magic hat helps him a lot), and he has to deal with an ugly, orange bowling ball and his gobble-like-a-turkey-for-good-luck mother at the bowling alley!"Hot Fudge Hero" is an excellent choice for beginning readers who feel that they're getting ready to graduate to chapter books. Like the Henry and Mudge series or the Little Bill series by Cosby, each page is carefully illustrated and the sentences are short and easy to read. The text generally avoids contractions like "it's" and "they're", which may seem a bit akward when reading out loud-most English speakers will abbreviate common words to contractions when they can-but helps the developing reader by avoiding all those confusing apostrophes.The stories are fun and the stuff of everyday life, which goes to show that you don't have to conquer the universe or swim the oceans to have a good time and enjoy reading! Besides, when you're done, you may even get to go out for a hot fudge yourself!

AWARD WINNER

This book received two very special awards: The Parent's Choice HONOR Book Award, and one of the New York Public Library's "Best 100 Books for Reading and Sharing." This is a terrific, can't miss book.