Alan MacDonald’s Dirty Bertie Burp is three short, silly stories for 6 year olds about a boy who actually likes lumpy school custard.<\/p>\n
Bertie is the only one in his class who loves school dinners. Wormy spaghetti, gloopy gravy, cold custard with a skin on it. He’ll eat the lot and finish yours. So when a new dinner lady called Miss Beansprout arrives with a menu of broccoli bake and cabbage soup, it’s a disaster.<\/p>\n
What’s a boy to do? Go on strike, obviously!<\/p>\n
That doesn’t quite go to plan (his mum makes him promise to eat his dinner). So Bertie gets sneaky instead, with a tin borrowed from his dad’s fishing bag. Let’s just say the head teacher’s salad has never tasted so wriggly.<\/p>\n
In the second story his big sister Suzy has her bossy friend Bella to stay, and Bertie has to give up his bedroom for the night. He isn’t having that. There’s a ghost in a white sheet, a plastic spider on a string and a homemade stink bomb he’s forgotten all about in his bedside cupboard. Which, of course, is exactly where Bella goes looking for sweets!<\/p>\n
The third is about Whiffer, Bertie’s very smelly dog. Mum signs them up for dog-training classes with a fierce lady called Miss Bowser, and Bertie will get double pocket money if Whiffer passes. The trouble is that Whiffer does whatever he likes. Until Bertie’s friend Donna has a very clever idea.<\/p>\n
These are properly funny. Bertie always has a plan, and it always goes a bit sideways, and he’s always a little bit surprised when the grown-ups blame him. The best jokes come from the way he sees things. His room is tidy because everything is where it always is (on the floor).<\/p>\n
The stories are short with little chapters, which makes this a brilliant stepping stone for newly independent readers. It’s also great for reading aloud, because the shouty bits (SPLAT! BRIIING! “MAGGOTS!”) are very satisfying to do in a big voice.<\/p>\n
There’s plenty of gross stuff, as you’d expect. Bogeys, burps, stink bombs and one squirmy lunch. If your reader loves it when the naughty kid wins, they’ll be cheering Bertie on.<\/p>\n
There’s more to Bertie’s school than Bertie, too. Try Angela Nicely, where a girl in the same school is convinced the head teacher has started wearing a wig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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