My Brother Dan's Delicious (2024)

This is a hilarious example of persuasion! A bit gives all sorts of reasons why monsters should eat Dan instead of him. The ending is a neat surprise, and really shows a healthy brother to brother relationship.

Good book for modeling problem and solution writing.

Illustrator: Chuck Galey

The soft evening colors in each full-page drawing throughout the book will calm students down. A good book to use by teachers if you are looking for a picture book about persuasive writing. A cute book about a young boy who is happy his parents trust him to be alone for a bit, however, he discovers it is a bit scary and that maybe there is a monster hiding somewhere in his home. He tries to convince that nonexisting monster that he should wait for his brother Dan to come home because he would taste even more delicious.

Copyright 2003 by Steven L. Layne
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pelican Publishing Company (January 1, 1736)

I think Chuck Galey is pretty dang awesome. I love his illustrations; always have, always will. Have you read Jazz Cats? I love that one! In My Brother Dan's Delicious, Galey doesn't disappoint, with colorful drawings of monsters, cats, and the brothers Joey and Dan. My problem? I hated the way the story was written. The match-up between text and pictures didn't flow and was actually pretty jarring. I see in other reviews that teachers like this book for its introduction to persuasive writing. I agree to a certain extent, but it just didn't work for me. Not a fan.

When I first read the title of this book, I thought that the apostrophe s in the title was possessive and I was going to find out what his brother Dan owned that was delicious. Little did I know that the title was calling his brother Dan delicious! This is a very silly tale about a kid being home alone. It would be a fun one to share with kids that may be worried about monsters.

This is a good read aloud about a boy that is home alone for the first time. He is scared of all kinds of fake things and offers to let the monsters eat his older brother Dan instead of him. He is trying to convince them of all the reasons why his brother would be better to eat than him. Cute story to show persuasion writing.

Thanks to my twitter friend, Dawn Little, for this recommendation. I love this story. She recommends using it at as mentor text for persuasive writing. I whole hardedly agree. This will be a very useful book in many ways for the elementary classroom teachers.

This would be a great book for teachers to use during language arts lessons, particularly persuasive writing. The vocabulary would also be great to incorporate into discussions/lessons for elementary students. This book would also be great for just a fun read as well.

picture book-good for persuasion concept

I used this book to teach my eighth graders persuasive writing and they loved it! Very cute story with lots of voice and good word choice. alliteration throughout!

4th grade favorite - my students loved it. Great for persuasive writing!

This would be a great mentor text for older students, and a great book to use along with the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

In this story a boy is trying to persuade a monster to eat his older brother instead of him! A very cute story! My cooperating teacher included this in her unit on persuasive writing!

Useful read-aloud for persuasive writing.

This would be a good read-aloud, and could be used when discussing writing pieces.

Great book to help teach persuasive writing to yr students!

I could not imagine what this book was about. But, as it unfolded, I could see what the boy was trying to do. What a cool book!

Great to use for persuasive writing as an intro, but also very strange. :-)

Funny argument/persuasive talk to imaginary monsters. . . with a twist.