ALA Booklist (Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2009)

The Bad Boys return, and this time Willy and Wally Wolf are "belly-babbling, tummy-talking, gut-grumbling hungry." When they see a hen hanging up clothes on the line, visions of chicken dinners dance in their heads. To get into the henhouse, they disguise themselves as the Handy-Dandy Lupino Brothers and offer to clean up. But Mrs. Hen's workload wears them out. Exhausted, the wolves fall asleep until they hear eggs hatching and the little chicks calling them "Pop!" The comical caper is peppered with funny details communicated in Cole's zany illustrations. Fans will eagerly await the Bad Boys' next deserved comeuppance.

Horn Book (Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2009)

In their third adventure, wolves Willy and Wally disguise themselves as the "Handy-Dandy Lupino Brothers," planning to outsmart Mrs. Hen and eat her for dinner. Instead, she takes full advantage, leaving the wolves with heaps of housework to do and baby chicks to watch over. Playful alliterative language and humorously expressive cartoon illustrations carry the story.

School Library Journal (Fri May 01 00:00:00 CDT 2009)

K-Gr 2 Willy and Wally Wolf, hungry for a finger-lickin' chicken dinner, disguise themselves as chickens and pose as domestic workers for hire. Dubbing themselves the "Handy-Dandy Lupino Brothers," they hatch a plan to clean out the coop. Mother hen is delighted by the brothers' offer, but admonishes that she can "pay mere chicken feed." They reply in delight, "We work for cheep." In an instant, Willy and Wally are laden with aprons, cleaning equipment, and supplies and handed a lengthy to-do list. They sweep, mop, scrub, vacuum, dust, polish, wash, hang, iron, and take out garbage. All that when they aren't watching dozens of chicks. Exhausted, they quickly fall into a deep slumber, and the chicks run wild, at least until their mother returns. Willy and Wally hightail it out of there, having lost their taste for chicken. With its fast-paced language and witty narrative paired with lively alliteration and puns, the Bad Boys' latest tale will entertain and capture youngsters' imaginations. Cole deftly expresses humor and the power of understatement in his pencil and watercolor illustrations. Expressive facial expressions and body language tell all. Marian Creamer, Children's Literature Alive, Portland, OR