Ben is a fearless young boy - as brave as a lion, as strong as an elephant. Nothing can distract him from his tireless task of protecting his big sister, Anna. He gallantly spends his day fending off mouldy green ghosts, slime-burping monsters, robbers and wid beasts. But when the day is over and darkness descends, Ben stops feeling quite so brave - and realises that sometimes it is his sister who does the protecting.
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Kindergarten-Grade 1–Ben is a brave and loyal little brother. Sure, he uses Anna's makeup to paint red blobs on her desk. But really they're drops of blood from the man-eating monster standing behind her, fork in hand, sprinkling her hair with a soupçon of salt. He instructs her to hide inside her wardrobe and make monster noises (no giggling–this will inflame the creature) while he attacks the suddenly ferocious armoire with his plastic artillery. While Anna extricates herself from her vanquished furniture, Ben is battling the green bathroom slime, the weekly burglar, and the backyard bears. His strength and courage are distinguished by a trail of spilt and broken things left in the wake of his heroics. Yet when night sneaks in through the windows, Ben is up against the wildest monster of all and he is so very glad to have a sister to shelter him. Meyer's color-soaked cartoons are bursting with a zany energy in which fantasy becomes real. While the text is somewhat awkward, Meyer takes up the slack whenever the words falter. This is not so much the story of a small boy's daytime bravery and nighttime fears as it is the tender description of a special sibling relationship.–Susan Weitz, formerly at Spencer-Van Etten School District, Spencer, NY
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PreS-Gr. 2. The creators of The Princess Knight (2004) and Pirate Girl (2005) offer another picture book, this time featuring the adventures of contemporary kids close to home. "Sometimes when Ben wakes up he is a wild wolf. Or a knight." In short, deadpan sentences, Funke describes a boy's imagined games. Armed with toy swords and water pistols, he pretends to protect his older sister, Anna, from endless threats--monsters, burglars, and bears. But at night, when "the heating creaks like the sound of a thousand biting beetles," it's Anna who protects her frightened brother. Wright's wonderfully expressive acrylic paintings elevate this simple glimpse of sibling play into something special. The animated scenes, filled with Ben's imagined foes, perfectly capture the wild-eyed, physical fun; the shifting emotions as brother and sister tussle and tease; and finally, their comfort. For another sibling story, suggest LeUyen Pham's Big Sister, Little Sister (2005) or Lynne Jonnell's Let's Play Rough (2000). Gillian Engberg
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Cornelia Funke is one of today's most beloved writers of magical stories for children. She is the author of The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider, Inkheart, Inkspell, the Ghosthunters series, When Santa Fell to Earth, and Igraine the Brave. She lives with her family in Los Angeles, California, in a house full of books.
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Cornelia Funke's story is energetic and fast-paced and is perfectly complemented by Kerstin Meyer's illustrations, which bring Ben's imagination to life (there aren't really any bears or wolves or man-eating monsters, you see). Ben may be mischievous (he paints `blood drops' on Anna's desk using her make-up), but he's a loveable character, and it is his sister's indulgence that really makes the book spark.www.smallprintbooks.co.uk
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I'm always on the look out for books my kids and this is one I picked up as soon as I saw it. This is a good book for boys and it is recommended for preschoo, kindergarten, and grades 1-2. Wildest Brother is a book about Anna's little brother Ben whose always getting into something. And usually that something is something of Anna's, like her makeup. This is a fun read aloud.
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