Arnold, Tedd Dirty Gert, PICTURE BOOK. Holiday House,
2013. $16.95. Content: G.
Gert has
grown up loving everything about dirt.
She particularly loves to eat it. The dirt energizes her and the more
she eats the more she becomes a plant.
The science and entertainment communities attempt to benefit from Gert’s
photosynthetic condition, but it ends up making her ill. Her parents take her back home and
treat her with the best in plant care and she recovers nicely.
The rhyming in this book is expectedly
well done (Tedd Arnold), but I just didn’t get the point. It was a little weird at first (which I
actually loved) because of Gert’s affinity for eating dirt, but I felt like
there wasn’t much purpose for her condition, reasoning behind the sequence of
events, or strong conclusion to the story. The worms that adore Gert are pretty cute and I was so
hopeful that the story would be so weird it was endearing, but I just wasn’t
convinced.
Pre K, El (K-3) –
OPTIONAL. Reviewed by: Shay,
School Librarian
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