A Tangle of Brungles

Filled with wonderful illustrations, follow along as three witches concoct a potion to bring a Brungle to them. With imagination and humor, discover what different groups of animals are called as each group is needed to make their potion possible.

Librarians, put this on your Halloween Storytime lists! A Tangle of Brungles is a delightful romp of a tale with fabulous rhymes and incredible illustrations. This is one of those books where everytime you come back to it, you see something new in the pictures. Parents, kids, and librarians alike will love coming back to this tale again and again so do yourself a favor and get this book onto your shelves!

A Tangle of Brungles is a children's book written by Shobha Viswanath and illutrated by Culpeo Fox. To summon the handsome Mr. Brungle, a coven of witches stir up the great brungle stew. A lounge of lizards, a mischief of mice and a quiver of cobras are just a few ingredients they toss in to create this terrible broth. But does Mr. Brungle appear? The book is a humorous introduction to some collective nouns.

A Tangle of Brungles is a visually impressive book. The illustrations are bright, bold, and teaming with detail. The texts flows nicely, telling the story of witches looking for love, and naming a variety of collective nouns in the process. I think it was well done although I have to admit some of the rhymes did not work for me, like broth and north. However, overall I liked the flow and the voice in the text. I thought the ending was a fun surprise as well. I have looked up more than a few collective nouns over the years, out of curiosity, and still learned a few new ones in this book. With the sneaking leaning and entertaining text I enjoyed the read very much, but still found the artwork to be my favorite part. I would gladly study the illustrations over and over again and suspect it will be a long time before I stop noticing new things on each page.

I requested and received an advanced reading copy of this book from NetGalley.

I really enjoyed this book. I liked that this isn’t your traditional rhyming book; it uses witches, and creepy crawlers, and rodents, and bats.

I loved the illustrations; they were colourful, bright, and perfect as they show witches with large noses, talon nails, and backwards feet. I really liked the use of the collective nouns, there were a few I didn’t already know, so I can say I learned something today!

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