Double Trouble

by Sarah Dyer (Illustrator)

Overview

Mischief is multiplied when twins are around!

Ellis and Erin are twins, and they love to draw and climb and play—but they also love looking for trouble! Will they find trouble in the kitchen or the bathroom? Maybe it’s in their bedroom, or outside in their garden? Follow the twins on a fun-filled journey through their house, through their backyard, to the attic, and back, as they search for trouble and get into all sorts of mischief on the way. Will they ever find trouble? Or will trouble find them?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849766593
Publisher:	Tate Publishing
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.45(d)
Age Range:	3 - 18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Dyer graduated from Kingston University, London, with a BA in illustration. She has written and illustrated seven picture books. Her first book, Five Little Fiends, has been translated into eight languages. Dyer lives in the UK with her husband and three children.

Editorial Reviews

2020-01-21
Twins go in search of trouble—and find it!

The text doesn’t assign Ellis and Erin pronouns but does identify them as twins. The siblings have light-brown skin, and Ellis wears glasses and has short, curly, dark hair; Erin’s hair is the same color but straighter and longer. These differences in appearance will help readers keep the twins straight as they cause playful chaos in their search for “trouble.” To no avail, they “rummage through the bags and boxes in the garage” and look for “trouble” at the bottom of trash bins and up a big tree. Splashing in a mud puddle brings glee and perhaps an assumption on readers’ parts that this muddy mess is, at last, where the twins “find trouble.” But they continue their search only to dejectedly go inside, “disappointed they couldn’t find trouble.” Dyer’s bright, lively collage art shows the children, dirty and disheveled, tracking mud and detritus into the house, which may again prompt readers to shake their heads knowingly—clearly these children have found trouble, whether they think so or not. But a twist ending, textually reliant on an avoidance of capitalizing Trouble as a proper noun in prior pages, reveals that Trouble is the name of the children’s cat. They find her in a satisfying culmination of their (perhaps) inadvertently mischievous search.

Delightful—and not the least bit troublesome. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews