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Coudray, Philippe

Benjamin Bear in "Brain Storms!"

32 pp. | TOON | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-935179-82-5 $12.95

(2) K-3 Toon Book series. Translated by Françoise Mouly. Benjamin Bear returns for a third round of humorously bizarre mini-sagas. As before, each page contains a stand-alone comic strip featuring Benjamin's decidedly fuzzy logic. Coudray uses visuals effectively to consistently get laughs (many of the strips are completely wordless). The quirky animal characters are depicted in Coudray's bug-eyed yet deadpan style, making each critter the perfect straight-man for all those sight gags.

Reviewer: Sam Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015