The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Gravel, Elise

Adopt a Glurb

40 pp. | Blue Apple | September, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60905-037-5 $10.99

(4) K-3 Balloon Toons series. This is a tongue-in-cheek book-length plug for a tiny fictitious creature resembling a black jack-o'-lantern with pointy ears and stick limbs--imagine an Uglydoll set in Sunday comics–style layouts. Sentence by sentence, the narrative is quirky and amusing ("Give your glurbs a chick pea and they'll play soccer"), but collectively, the welter of attributes add up to little.

Reviewer: Nell Beram