BERT AND BARNEY

by Ned Delaney ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1980

A frog who can't swim and an alligator the same size who sits on a log in the river instead of lounging in the water: this is the dippy pair that Delaney puts through the very agitated motions of a childhood spat. The best friends' falling out occurs when each one insists that the other is a better wrestler; but as each is miserable without the other, they reunite in a day. Delaney revs up this commonplace theme with a lot of arm-waving action (besides wrestling, the animals swim, tumble downhill in barrels, do skateboard acrobatics) and, at the end, he has the two friends on their log hurtling toward a waterfall and joining up for a leap to safety they couldn't manage apart. Kids might be drawn along by Delaney's one strong point, his frenetic comix-style energy.

Pub Date: Oct. 10, 1980

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1980

Categories: CHILDREN'S