Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! by Cece Bell
Series: Chick and Brain #1
Published by Candlewick Press on September 3rd 2019
ISBN: 0763679364
Pages: 72
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Riffing on the Dick & Jane books, Cece Bell has created a new early reader, graphic series introducing Chick & Brain and their hilarious dynamic. Despite having a large brain, Brain is a simple guy. He wants Chick to smell his foot, but Chick will do no such thing until Brain says, “Please.” In a series of Abbot-and-Costello-esque exchanges, the two go round and round. Enter Spot the dog. He gets caught up in the sniff-fest but turns it to his advantage, happily inviting Chick “to lunch.” Then the reader learns that Brain is not as clueless as he seems. Kids will laugh out loud and won’t care that this is a book slyly teaching them about manners. Bell’s illustrations are large and clear and limited to two or three panels per page. Recommend for classrooms and public library collections.

Reviewed by Jill O’Connor, Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth