Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

by Berkeley Breathed

Overview

Fannie Fudwupper's big brother, Edwurd, spends his time cooking up big fibs full of phooey and letting them rip. But one day, Edwurd tells such a whopping lie that the army, the air force, and the dogcatcher are called to reverse the damage. Full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316144254
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	10/17/2003
Series:	Storyopolis Books
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	203,071
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.75(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Berkeley Breathed, one of America's most popular illustrators, is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning. His comic strip "Bloom County" ran for years in newspapers around the world and his books of the collected cartoons include the bestsellers 'Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. His highly acclaimed picture books, A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story, The Last Basselope, Goodnight Opus, and Red Ranger Came Calling, have been hits with children and adults alike.

Berkeley Breathed lives, works, and surfs in southern California.

Editorial Reviews

A timid girl only wants some attention from her brother who is too busy fabricating stories to be her friend. When she tells a fib to save the planet, she finally earns his affection. "The alternating ink-and-watercolor caricatures with ultra-high-contrast images, exude an almost radioactive glow," said PW. Ages 6-9. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

"From a long line of liars, there's none higher upper.../ Than my fibbing big brother,/ The Edwurd Fudwupper," laments Fannie, a timid girl with freckles and corkscrews of orange hair. She only wants some attention from Edwurd, a mutated Dennis the Menace with a red-striped shirt, monstrously large head and creepy grin. But Edwurd is too busy fabricating stories to be her friend. In a sequence too convoluted to recount fully, Edward breaks a ceramic pig, lies about the deed and draws hostile attention from a three-eyed alien whose purple potbelly could easily contain the entire Earth ("Oh, it was dreadful! A real world stopper!/ All from an Edwurd Fudwupper fat whopper!"). When Fannie tells a "fat fib" of her own and saves the planet, she finally earns Edwurd's affection. Breathed (A Wish for Wings That Work) alternates ink-and-watercolor caricatures with ultra-high-contrast images, but their caustic whites and poison greens exude an almost radioactive glow. The author may approach the meters of Dr. Seuss ("Who is this gnat? Point out where he's at!/ Show him to me and I'll swat him down flat!" says the alien), but the tone, like the art, is mean-spirited and unfunny. All ages. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

K-Gr 3-A smug, obnoxious, yet imaginative boy gets out of many sticky situations by telling whoppers in this rhyming tale related by his neglected little sister. One day he outdoes himself: "Edwurd dropped low; he was scared ten times double./He'd fibbed way too big and was now in HUGE trouble!" When a nosy neighbor overhears his story about alien pig-lifting beams, she calls in the army and airforce to find her missing friend, another victim of the boy's mischief. Nothing can stop the fib now-especially with the arrival of an angry monster alien. Fortunately for Edwurd, his sister bravely takes the blame. Touched by the little girl's devotion to her big brother, the creature heads home and Edwurd is off the hook, and he finally appreciates his younger sibling. This is a highly moralistic tale, but a wildly zany one, full of wordplay, alliteration, and outrageously expressive watercolor-and-acrylic illustrations. The cartoon talent of the artist shines through his unique perspectives, grotesque characters, and dramatic color contrasts. What fun-and that's no lie.-Ronald Jobe, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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