Bad Brows

by Jason Carter Eaton, Mike Petrik (Illustrator)

Overview

Hilarity ensues when a boy’s eyebrows go rogue in this riotous picture book from the bestselling author of How to Train a Train

One morning, Bernard wakes up to find that his eyebrows have gone rogue. They’re sabotaging Picture Day, taunting his teacher, and growing, growing, growing out of control! All attempts to wrangle these bad brows just seem to make them angrier and more furrow-cious.
Why are Bernard’s eyebrows behaving so badly? And what do they want?
From Mike Petrik and bestselling author Jason Carter Eaton comes a hilarious romp about everything your face can—and does!—express.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419725371
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jason Carter Eaton is a writer and screenwriter whose credits include Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, as well as many books for children, including the national bestseller How to Train a Train. Mike Petrik is an animator by day and an illustrator of books, magazines, and wonderfully scary doodles by night. He’s contributed to such publications as Highlights for Children and High Five, and his debut author-illustrator book was Sammy’s Spooktacular Halloween. He lives with his wife and three amazing children in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

Editorial Reviews

2019-12-22
Eyebrows run amok.

Bernard wakes up one morning to discover that his normally reasonable eyebrows have gone "BAD." His dad asks, "What's with the goofy face?" and his mom warns him to stop "making funny faces." Bernard assures everyone that it's not him, it's the strangely assertive eyebrows. Throughout the day, the brows morph into different zany shapes, expressing emotions that mask Bernard's actual feelings. His frustrated principal explains that "your eyebrows are your face's way of telling other people how you feel." The barber and the doctor can't help even as the eyebrows become dangerous, growing so long that they trip people and make mischief. A knock on his bedroom door signals the return of his "real" eyebrows, back from vacation. He vows to never again take them for granted, practicing "many exciting expressions that night." This frankly weird book requires readers willing to go with the outlandish premise. The eyebrows' eventual tentaclelike movement and ensuing chaos are, as the narrator says, "downright disgusting." The cartoon illustrations, like the odd premise, are reminiscent of an animated show on commercial TV—one can imagine sound effects. Bernard is biracial, and his family is interracial; his dad and grandpa present white while his mom has brown skin, as do many figures at Bernard's school.

For readers with a taste for the bizarre. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews