Bertie desperately attempts some creative escapes to a playdate in this companion to How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way by Rachel Michelle Wilson.
Oh no! It's happened. You've been set up on a blind playdate.
Will they be your new best friend or evil nemesis?
You'll probably have to wait and see.
If you just don't click, it's okay. We've all been there. This book will guide you through a few creative escape options. All you'll need is your wits, a dashing disguise, and a roof-crushing robot. Along the way, you might even discover that you and your playdate have more in common
than you think.
Rachel Michelle Wilson has created another humorous story that any kid (and adult) can relate to. With her textured, retro style art, Rachel approaches another childhood milestone with humor, heart, and honesty. Bertie desperately attempts some creative escapes to a playdate in this companion to How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way by Rachel Michelle Wilson. Rachel Michelle Wilson has been set up on many playdates. Some gave her the gift of great friends. Others gave her creative escape ideas, which went straight into this book. For more fun shenanigans, read her other books How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way and To Catch a Ghost.
"While Wilson's thickly lined art and limited palette render characters relatively simply, fun details can be found throughout the story. Front and back endpapers portray an array of escape options and instructions ranging from "The Oops I Peed My Pants" to "The Hire a Magician and Disappear." The natural friendship that blooms out of mutual playdate ineptitude belies the tale's very premise, and in the silliest ways possible. The dual desires for companionship and solitude are taken to their logical extremes in this deeply goofy guidebook."
Kirkus
"The adroit wordplay paired with downright unlikely scenarios is genuinely hilarious, with jokes that treat kids as intelligent beings and a bonus understanding for adult readers. While the narrative thankfully never contains a lesson about sucking it up to have fun, and it does acknowledge that some playdates are simply doomed to fail, it might inspire positive feelings toward the next forced playdate"
or at least the memory of a good book about one."
"In her relatable take on the awkwardness of parent-arranged activities, Wilson's minimalist yet expressive artwork matches the wry humor of her text, especially once the two kids forced to play together start to bond over their common drive to flee, leading to an imaginative game of make-believe. Each page of artwork provides just enough context to frame the words and allows the reader's imagination to complete the interplay between text and image. Whether escape means playing catch (badly), defying expectations by grabbing a disguise and catapulting to the moon, or the classic act of climbing out the bedroom window and getting stuck in a tree, Wilson's creative wit keeps the pages turning while emphasizing that shared anxiety can often lead to finding playful common ground. A reassuring, silly story that will help children feel less alone and more confident in social situations."
