Bootsie Barker Bites

By Barbara Bottner format: children's paperback publication: May 1997 ISBN: 9780698114272

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"My mother and Bootsie Barker's mother are best friends," begins the diminutive narrator of this uproariously illustrated story. Bootsie stops short of actually biting, but she bares her teeth in a gleeful lethal grin as the daily mom-and-daughter visit begins. Wearing her broad-brimmed black hat and wickedly pointy hot-pink boots, Bootsie ignores all injunctions to "play nicely, girls!" She pretends to be a hungry dinosaur, tears up her timid host's book about turtles and knocks over an aquarium housing Charlene the salamander. Alas, the girls' parents are blind to Bootsie's malevolence and plan an overnight stay; the narrator, certain that she and Charlene will be "rushed to the hospital with dinosaur bites," confides her fears to her mother, whose calm response plants the germ of an idea. The next day the beleaguered heroine thinks fast and gives Bootsie a witty comeuppance. Bottner ( Let Me Tell You Everything ) smoothly adopts the understandably anxious child's point of view, while Rathmann ( Ruby the Copycat ) contributes formidable, hyper-bright watercolors that echo the story's nightmarish but hilarious exaggeration. Ages 4-8.

What could be worse than a bully? A bully with the appetite of a dinosaur! Bootsie Barker tosses your books around and chases you down the hallway howling and screaming that she'll eat you up. Bootsie Barker flings your pet salamander Charlene in the air howling and screaming that she'll eat her up too. Now imagine Bootsie Barker spending the whole night with you and Charlene while her parents go to Chicago. Yikes! You will clap your hands in delight upon reading this underdog tale of a girl and her pet salamander who cleverly outwit their maliciously gleeful bully. Peggy Rathmann expertly illustrates with vibrant techni-colour the explosive terror that is Bootsie, the inky shadowy fear that results in the little girl and her triumphant glow upon discovering a solution all on her own. This story positively roars to life when read aloud!

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