My Brother

Following on from the hugely popular My Mum and My Dad, here is Anthony Browne lauding brotherly love! ‘Brothers for ever’ reads just one of the badges on the endpapers.

Off we go, with little brother saying ‘My brother is really cool,’ and cool is the repeated message throughout the book. How cool IS cool? Brilliant pictures throughout extract maximum humour from the short and repetitive text. Each main accolade is told in bold whilst elaborations surround each illustration, arrows indicating cool kneepads, cool skateboard, cool climbing, dazzling disco dancing. So the book can be read just with the main text, or in a more leisurely way with all the extras.

Fans of Browne’s brilliant work will spot a familiar chimp and stripy jumper, and thoroughly enjoy searching the pictures for things which are not quite what they seem. A favourite page shows cool big brother reading his cool book in a chair made up of his book collection, the bun feet being the cool brother’s cool sandals! This book will be loved in families, and should be read by all brothers everywhere!