Apr 30, 2008 We just finished the book, Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All, by Mary Amato. The kids and I really enjoyed it. This book actually got my reluctant reader reading on his own!
The Riot Brothers are pranksters and love to play jokes on people. Unlike most books about siblings, Wilber and Orville get along with each other swimmingly. They decide they need to do something exciting every day and in the first story they plan to catch a crook. They don’t have a certain one in mind, any crook will do. In our favorite story in the book, the boys decided to make some money by giving lessons on ‘being annoying’ to their classmates. They end up in the Principal’s office (who is also their mother), and still manage to foil a bank robber on the way home from school. Next, while searching for treasure, they find a mysterious box in the closet. After they finally open it, they discover that the contents, although not worth money, are still valuable. The final installment has the duo building a catapult designed to overthrow a king and using it instead to defeat a bully.
“Snarf Attack” is a short chapter book with cartoon like pictures throughout. We have been trying to get our son to read and this book did the trick. It was funny and most importantly, easy for him to read on his own. There are three different stories in the book about these mischievous kids (with six chapters each). We tried the other Riot Brother’s books, and the kids enjoyed them, too. Snarf Attack was our favorite.
