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Mischievous Wilberforce goes to a birthday party and steals the show from the birthday girl by jumping on the sofa, spilling the drinks, and throwing food
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Kindergarten-Grade 2 Gordon uses the technique of pairing bland, spare text with active, humorous illustrations. The effect is funny because the pictures deliver a message opposite from that of the text: "Everyone remembered their best table manners" is illustrated by a double spread of 15 young bears throwing food, spilling juice, overloading their plates, pea-shooting and generally acting like a group of over-excited children at a party. Wilberforce is the chief instigator of the mischief. The brightly framed line-and-watercolor illustrations are crowded with dark- and light-color bear children. The opening text ("One afternoon Wilberforce went to a party with his brother and sister.") may be confusing as the illustrations show four children playing and a mother bear ironing. On subsequent pages they will realize that Wilberforce is still at home and is about to go a party. Also, Wilberforce's sister is shown in the opening pages wearing a pink dress and hair ribbon; she later dons a green dress. But the birthday girl is then shown wearing an almost identical pink dress; some children may have trouble sorting out the two girls. These elements aside, the story frolics along, and Wilberforce's antics ring true. Although he behaves like a preschooler, Wilberforce will be appreciated by slightly older children who have enough book experience to study the details in the illustrations. Susan H. Patron, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherViking Juvenile
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0670801488
- ISBN 13 9780670801480
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada
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