Britten and brulightly by Hannah Berry.  New York:  Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2009. 

ISBN-13:   9780805089271

ISBN-10:   0805089276

Illustrator:  Hannah Berry

Media:  Pen and inks

5Q/4P

Reading level:  9th grade

Annotation:  Fernandez Britten is a private investigator, and Brulightly is Fern’s sidekick partner.  Fern uses Brulightly, a tea bag, to disclose his inner thoughts and to speculate ideas.  Set in modern London in the 20th century, Britten Brulightly uses film noir’s thematic clothes and décor in this color illustrated graphic novel.

KRF 7/25/09

Britten and Brulightly by Hannah Berry. New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Company, 2008. ISBN-10: 0805089276

Britten is a depressed private detective with a tea bag named Brulightly for a friend. Britten is dissatisfied with his career and solves one last mystery is this dark, densely illustrated comic novel.

    - Media: Pen and Ink

    - Rating: 4Q/4P

    - Special Category: use of personification through the text and/or through the illustrations. Britten has a teabag as a friend, though the teabag doesn't move or speak Britten sees it as hearing and speaking to him.

CHA 8/1/09