cweichel 's review for:

The Toy Brother by William Steig

4.0

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I needed a picture book to teach the basics of a book report. (The classroom teacher had left one of those paper cubes to fill out.) The gender norms are a bit dated, but it’s still a classic full of all kinds of weirdness and humour. It fit my needs perfectly. Magnus Bede is an apothecary. When he and his wife, Eutilda, are away, his older son, Yorick, ends up disobeying him and while experimenting in the lab, shrinks himself. The younger son, Charles, finally has Yorick’s undivided attention, but It looks like there might be stuck that way forever!