Burping Bertha Award-winning team by Michael Rosen (author) and Tony Ross (illustrator) (UK edition)

On an ordinary morning, in an ordinary flat, an up-till-now perfectly ordinary Bertha does an extraordinary burp. A burp so extraordinary, it knocks things over. A burp so humongously big that very soon it’s causing havoc in the school canteen, the playground, not to mention her grandad’s apple trees… Such a burptastic secret cannot stay quiet for long. And soon enough it lands Bertha her very own celebrity stardom…but is it all just a lot of hot air?

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781849394062

Publisher

Andersen Press Ltd

Date published

March 1st, 2012

Lexile measure

880L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.5; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

56 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born into a London Jewish family, the son of two distinguished educators – Connie and Harold Rosen. Michael’s childhood was rich in books, stories and conversation.

Michael attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School for a year but transferred to Wadham College, Oxford to study English Literature. At Oxford, he started to realise his ambition of acting (as well as writing and directing). Michael still says that if he wasn’t a poet, he’d like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is!

The narrowness of his course of study proved a source of dissatisfaction and Michael began looking outside his recommended reading to contemporary working, class ballads. He retains a passion for street rhymes, popular songs and folk stories.

Michael Rosen has been writing poetry since the age of 18. His first collection, Mind Your Own Business, was published in 1974. Although it was not planned as a collection for children, it appeared on Andre Deutsch’s children’s list. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience. It was just incredibly exhilarating.”

He quickly made a name for himself with his collections of humorous verse and picture books for children. He is described as one of the most significant figures in contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

Michael is now a poet, author and broadcaster, and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.

Tony Ross

Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. As well as his own books, he has illustrated books for authors such as Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger and Michael Palin.

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Book Talk - Burping Bertha (3 pages)

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What kids think

Spidergirl
on 8 March 2014

Buuuurppp that’s all Bertha does Ok book

5out of 5
fantasticmissfox
on 5 March 2014

Burping Bertha is a very funny book. I wish she came to my school as lots of funny things happen. Maybe she could teach me how to burp whenever I wanted. It does get her into a lot of trouble though. I really enjoyed this book, I highly recommend it for eight and overs.
TheMileLongBookshelfBlog
on 6 March 2013

It’s okay I suppose
cupcake8
on 4 May 2012

it is so boring

2out of 5
Book-Club-Review-Team
on 17 April 2012

Bertha can burp whenever she wants (I wish I could!). This makes very funny things happen at her school! I wonder how it would be to have her at MY school?

Jonathan, age 6

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Burping Bertha Award-winning team by Michael Rosen (author) and Tony Ross (illustrator) (UK edition)