What Are You Doing, Benny?

Whatever activity Benny is engaged in, his little brother thinks he would be a terrific help. He specializes in making paper airplanes, riding his bike and even playing with the neighbour's cat. But whenever he tries to join in Benny's activities, he is met with a "No".

It takes a whole lot of "No`s" for Benny`s little brother to come up with the perfect way to turn the tables on his older sibling.

Kady MacDonald Denton is a well-known award-winning illustrator who will be familiar to any lover of children's books. Her illustrations of What Are You Doing, Benny? bring Cary Fagan's wise and funny story of a sibling relationship to life perfectly. As an author-illustrator team, Denton and Fagan are top-notch.

The story is told by Benny's little brother in the first person, and Fagan's characters and situations are both original and familiar. The story is simply told with Denton's pictures giving the reader all the visual clues needed for young listeners to understand what is going on between the brothers.

What Are You Doing, Benny? is a picture book not to be missed. It is bound to be a hit as a read-aloud to children in the pre-school to grade 2 age range, and its contents should provide some wonderful opportunities for discussion with that group.