Mother, You’re the Best! (But Sister, You’re a Pest!) (Gilbert and Friends)

Diane deGroat
HarperCollins Children’s (2008)
ISBN 9780061238994
Reviewed by Elizabeth Rennert (age 6) for Reader Views (11/08)

This book is about a boy, Gilbert, doing something good for his mother for Mother’s Day.  He’s not really a boy, he’s a possum; the other kids in his class are beavers, rabbits, ducks and rabbits.  The storekeeper is a dog.

I like it because he did something nice.  It wasn’t what he expected to do, but it turned out good in the end.  He doesn’t want Lola, his little sister, to spend time with his mother, or help Gilbert do things.  Lola is always getting in the way, and Gilbert thinks that maybe his mom likes her better.  I have a little brother, and sometimes he’s a pest, too.

Gilbert tries to keep Lola away from their mother.  Gilbert lets Lola help him and he ends up taking care of her the whole day on Mother’s Day; that’s what makes his mother happy.  She likes to see the kids spending time together, even though that wasn’t the gift Gilbert planned.

The pictures have a lot of details, and we can see what everyone else is doing, like when Gilbert gives Lola a bath and there are bubbles all over the bathroom, and toothbrushes on the sink; their father is picking up the dirty laundry from the floor.  I liked this book, “Mother, You’re the Best! (But Sister, You’re a Pest!),” by Diane deGroat.

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