I don't know how I can be the first to review this, but it's a good way to kill half an hour. Bart is up to a his prankish nature, even Lisa is in on it a little bit, and I enjoyed the Itchy & Scratchy segment. Milhouse, also, gets his 5 minutes of fame -- better him than Martin. ( )

I was surprised. "The Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson" wasn't bratty enough. Or funny enough. In fact it was not even 'okay' and didn't generate one hearty guffaw from me.

What I was expecting was either juvenile humor -- you know, potty humor or 'gross stuff' jokes -- or edgy humor, but what I found were some very old and dusty 'jokes' that were being recast as Simpson's humor, as well as some material that could only be classified as filler.

The art is good, and what you would expect if you merged The Simpsons of television fame with an old style comic book. But you can hardly expect it to carry a whole book.

My 10 year-old daughter, by the way, found the book more a curiosity than humorous, and her 8 year-old brother actually skimmed most of it -- something he would never do with Captain Underpants.

If I was to try to estimate who the best audience would be for this book, I'd say it's likely to appeal to younger Middle-grade boys.

Pam T~
mom/blogger of #kidlit ( )