Bad Boys Get Cookie!
by Margie Palatini
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Author: Margie PalatiniIllustrator: Henry Cole
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0060744367
Number of pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Book Reviews of Bad Boys Get Cookie!
Book Review: 3 1/2 Long on Story, Short on Originality
Summary: 4 Stars
While stories about disguised wolves looking for food have built-in audience appeal (especially when they pose as fedora-wearing detectives), this one seems a bit derivative. The whole "bad boy" concept seems similar to Daniel Pinkwater's "Bad Bear" series, and, while it may be in the public domain, describing your detective agency as "Dewey-Ketchum and Howe can be heard is not very original either. The book's running joke--when the two wolves have the same thought --the phrase "brain ditto!"--is initially uncleare and then overdone.
However, there are some genuinely clever moments as well. We first encounter the two "bad" wolves, Wally and Willy, in a completely messy, food-covered apartment, the remnant of sugar cookies, ice cream, chocolates, and other sweets on the floor. There's a pun on eating "brownies" (a uniformed girl--gasp!--is pictured), and avery funny sequence where a baker describes his missing cookie as if it were aperson: "...he's about this high. Thin. Lightly browned. Full of sugar and spice...He's wearing a white-icing jacket with guymdrop buttons."
"We know the type," says Willy.
THe missing cookie is unsympathetic, sort of a brat really, and perhaps that's why we root for the wolves in the very episodic story of their failed attempts at capture. It all plays a little like a Wile E. Coyote Roadrunner animation (and the unsubtle illustrations add to this effect), with one failed attempt leading to another, until the cookie meets its (unseen) demise in the mouth of an alligator. One of the wolves ruses is posing as Hansel and Gretel, asking the cookie to help find their way back to their "mama and papa." This backfires on them, as the conclusion finds them facing the witch who imprisoned the real Hansel and Gretel, kneeling happily before her oven.
ALthough this long book has a lot of action scenes, more character development (show us, don't tell us that they're bad), and originality would have improved it.
Summary of Bad Boys Get Cookie!
Those two bad boys -- Willy and Wally -- are still bad.
Bad. Bad. Really, really bad.
And now they have two big bad sweet tooths.
When the baker's cookie runs off, these newly cloaked private eyes, "Willis and Wallace," see their chance to Get Cookie!
But this is one smart cookie, and the pair may require a plan B. Can this terrible and terribly hungry duo satisfy their hankering before their new disguises land them in ill-fated trouble?
Margie Palatini and Henry Cole reunite for a rollicking fairy-tale follow-up to their hilarious bad boys.
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