I Have a Weird Brother Who Digested a Fly [Hardcover]

Joan Holub (Author), Patrick Girouard (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3-Holub's creative story takes readers on a whimsical tour of the digestive process. In lighthearted rhyme, a girl relates how a fly travels through her brother from ingestion to elimination. "The fly wiggle-woggled/ around in his mouth,/bumping his teeth/before moving south." Sidebars, cartoons, and additional text explain the organs and steps of the digestive system in easy-to-understand language with simple analogies. The illustrations, rendered in ink, markers, gouache, and colored pencil, burst with bright colors and backgrounds. Children will chuckle over the toilet-bowl scene and the unfortunate fly sinking in gastric juices. Holub serves two pages of additional information including sections on "Should I Eat a Fly?," "The Food Pyramid," and "Funny Noises." This is the type of book that gathers no shelf dust.
Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Holub is an Albert Whitman author.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807535060
• ISBN-13: 978-0807535066
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,866,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of 130+ books including 12 in the GODDESS GIRLS series: Athena the Brain, Persephone the Phony, Aphrodite the Beauty, Artemis the Brave, Athena the Wise, Aphrodite the Diva, Artemis the Loyal, Medusa the Mean, The Girl Games (Super Special) for ages 8-12 co-written with Suzanne Williams. OTHER POPULAR TITLES: Groundhog Weather School; Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers and Swirly Stars; The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School; Wagons Ho! (co-written with G. Hallowell); Who Was Babe Ruth?; Zero the Hero (picture book illus by Tom Lichtenheld, Henry Holt/Macmillan). COMING IN 2012: Ballet Stars (Random House).

I'm at http://www.joanholub.com and http://joanholub.blogspot.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book on digestion, March 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: I Have a Weird Brother Who Digested a Fly (Hardcover)

Digestion is an incredibly boring subject to many kids who visit my library (public). I now gleefully steer them toward this book. They love the title and are immediately intrigued. Because they find the story hilarious, they painlessly learn about digestion. Excellent book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So glad to find this book, March 5, 2000

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george (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Have a Weird Brother Who Digested a Fly (Hardcover)

It's not easy to make learning about digestion fun, but this book does. I'm an elem. school librarian and am happy this book arrived on our shelves!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very funny book that also teaches about digestion., November 23, 1999

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joan hanah (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Have a Weird Brother Who Digested a Fly (Hardcover)

This clever book has been a great addition to my school classroom bookshelf. My kids laughed their heads off (I teach grades 1-2) when I read it aloud, and many of them went back more than once to the book later to get a closer look at the digestion facts.