Yuck!

Dirty Bertie #5

by David Roberts

Bertie devises a new scheme for making filthy lucre, has a sickly time at the fairground and manages to teach a toddler her first word: Bum.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".

Reviews

[Ruby Tuesday · Rating 5 out of 5]

We've been reading the Dirty Bertie books since the beginning of the year and have two left before we have finished them all. Dirty Bertie is a little boy with dirty habits who always manages to get into mischief. The books are similar to Horrid Henry but I think funnier and Bertie is a much more likeable character as there is nothing nasty about him, just cheeky. Some of the titles in the series have revolting names such as "Bogeys" which initially put me off these books as I thought they would be just silly with no real story line but they are actually quite charming books and I've enjoyed ready them. As we like to say "Bertie always wins in the end"!

[Aycan]

great book funny

[D.J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this as part of the summer reading challenge in my role as patron of reading