Fresh Brats

School Library Journal

Gr 3-6 --This sequel to Kennedy's Brats (McElderry, 1986) contains 44 short comic verses about mischievous children. As in the previous collection, Watts has contributed 16 black-and-white drawings that highlight the actions in the verse. Like the poems in Myra Cohn Livingston's Higgledy-Piggledy (McElderry, 1986), Kennedy's verses are all composed in the same rhyme and rhythmic pattern, making them easy models for young writers to imitate. And like Livingston, Kennedy focuses on the sassy antics of less-than-admirable children, a subject common to the verse of many popular children's poets. Purchase if there is demand for more irreverent comic verses. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, Univ . of Wyoming, Laramie