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Vern and Lettuce
Welcome to Pickle Rye, home of best friends Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep. Join them for baking, birthdays, bunny-sitting and a quest for fame in the big city! Vern and Lettuce reach for the stars, but danger is lurking just beneath their feet...Furry escapades from the DFC Library.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2010
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July 15, 2019
A sheep and rabbit have various adventures.
The basic ideas were good, but the cartoon strips didn't grab me.
Reading time around twenty minutes.
The basic ideas were good, but the cartoon strips didn't grab me.
Reading time around twenty minutes.
May 8, 2017
Ten Second Synopsis:
Friends Vern and Lettuce head to the big city to audition for a televised talent show, only to uncover a dastardly plot to bring down the city.
While I had seen Vern & Lettuce before on some blog or other's list of recommended graphic novel for the younger age bracket, I couldn't remember what it was about when I came across it at the library. Lettuce and Vern live in a town called Pickle Rye where Vern eats grass in the park while fending off moles and Lettuce is often put in charge of her brood of younger siblings. The first few stories in the book, which are presented one to a page, are unrelated and serve to introduce the characters and their relationship, but a little way in the comics merge into a longer tale that relates to Lettuce coercing Vern into travelling to the city to audition for a televised talent show.
I enjoyed both sections of the book. The earlier, unconnected comics were adorable and quite funny with Vern always ending up in some baby-bunny-related predicament and the latter section of the collection presented an interesting story with some cheeky twists and turns. I also loved the few literary and pop culture references hiding throughout (in one instance the moles makes an utterance with uncanny resemblance to Little Britain's juvenile delinquent Vicky Pollard, while later on there's a reference to pigeons being unwelcome on buses...a tip of the hat to Mo Willem's perhaps?).
Overall, this is a cute and funny collection that is a great addition to the comic literature for the younger end of the middle grade spectrum. The stories are simple enough for younger kids to access but there are enough twists and turns for older middle grade readers to appreciate too.
Friends Vern and Lettuce head to the big city to audition for a televised talent show, only to uncover a dastardly plot to bring down the city.
While I had seen Vern & Lettuce before on some blog or other's list of recommended graphic novel for the younger age bracket, I couldn't remember what it was about when I came across it at the library. Lettuce and Vern live in a town called Pickle Rye where Vern eats grass in the park while fending off moles and Lettuce is often put in charge of her brood of younger siblings. The first few stories in the book, which are presented one to a page, are unrelated and serve to introduce the characters and their relationship, but a little way in the comics merge into a longer tale that relates to Lettuce coercing Vern into travelling to the city to audition for a televised talent show.
I enjoyed both sections of the book. The earlier, unconnected comics were adorable and quite funny with Vern always ending up in some baby-bunny-related predicament and the latter section of the collection presented an interesting story with some cheeky twists and turns. I also loved the few literary and pop culture references hiding throughout (in one instance the moles makes an utterance with uncanny resemblance to Little Britain's juvenile delinquent Vicky Pollard, while later on there's a reference to pigeons being unwelcome on buses...a tip of the hat to Mo Willem's perhaps?).
Overall, this is a cute and funny collection that is a great addition to the comic literature for the younger end of the middle grade spectrum. The stories are simple enough for younger kids to access but there are enough twists and turns for older middle grade readers to appreciate too.
March 26, 2014
This adorable, gently amusing little book could well have been written for me. Adorable illustrations, tons of bunnies, a sheep who knits... The plot is sweetly zany, with lots of visual humour and references for the grown-ups (Bob Marley bunnies!) and a delightful supporting cast.
Shelved as 'graphic-novels'
March 31, 2014
September 19, 2015
The warm and witty comic strip tales of Vern and Lettuce was a treat. Glad I borrowed this from the school library. Now I know how to banish moles.
February 18, 2012
We all loved Vern and Lettuce; the stories are fun and silly, and the characters are sweet.
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