Ernest and Rebecca:
Vol 1 and Vol 2
The following is a review of the first two books in the
Earnest and Rebecca comic series from Papercutz. It was written by Grade 3 student, Mariah.
I first was introduced to these books at the 2012 Free Comic Book Day. I was looking at a comic book when I spied
the FCBD Ernest and Rebecca story. I
started looking through that part of the comic and I thought it was great. Then for the Christmas of 2012 my dad got me
the first book, My
Best Friend Is A Germ. I
read the whole thing and I kept reading it and reading it.
The books are about a little girl named Rebecca and a shape-shifting
microbe germ named Ernest. During a frog
hunt in the first book she saw him sitting under a tree. She thought he was a frog but then he started
talking to her. He called her a little
piglet and she started chasing him around outside her house! She finally caught him and took him inside.
They became best friends and he helps Rebecca deal with her fighting parents.
In book 2, Sam the Repulsive,
Rebecca’s parents get separated and the mother gets a new boyfriend named
Sam. Rebecca tries to get her parents
back together with her new germy friend, Ernest the microbe. When mom invites the boyfriend over for tea
Earnest and Rebecca see this as their big chance to get rid of Sam. So, they try to dump some frogs on his head
but they are too late – he was early and already went into the house and they
have to try a different way to get rid of him.
Nothing works, it’s no use, Sam is still in the picture. In the end Rebecca starts to like Sam because
he started to act not what she expected.
These books are written really funny. Guillaume
Bianco does a good job. They try
to trick Dr. Fakbert into thinking she has green lumps on her head with the
help of Ernest’s imitation and shape-shifting abilities. In one part Rebecca bites the Dr’s hand
because she didn’t like the tongue depressor he was putting in her mouth. These books are really interesting for
children to read.
I really like the details the artist did on the
drawings. Antonello
Dalena makes the hair on Rebecca’s head so real and cool. I like how the artist draws everything so
cute and silly but when the parents are fighting I can feel Rebecca’s sadness.
That is why I like the first two books in the Ernest and
Rebecca series.
This review of Ernest
and Rebecca is by Mariah, age 8.
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