


The arcade would be even better if they had permission to use part of its lawn, but Louie is too scared to do so. But right next door is the creepy house everyone is sure is haunted. They use recycled materials from the trash for the games, and they're making great progress. The Ratso brothers and their friends get inspired to clean up an abandoned, trashed lot and turn it into an carnival games arcade. Review by Cameron H., 7, New Mexico Mensa I give this book three stars and recommend it for kids ages 5-7 years old. There were some good messages in this book, and if you don’t mind rats, you might really enjoy it. Big Lou helped Ralphie too with his girl problem.

I have been scared before and I know you can’t be brave without being scared first. He gave his boys good advice and helped solve their problems. The rat I liked in this book was the dad, Big Lou. I thought he should try to convince them not to call her names. Ralphie wanted to convince his friends he didn’t like the girl. In our school, we don’t call each other names like this. All the kids at school thought Ralphie liked Stinky Stanko, the nickname for one of Ralphie’s classmates. Louie was not the only one with a problem. Louie was spooked! How was he going to get over his fear? The only problem was that the area they wanted to use seemed haunted. That’s when they got the idea to turn an empty lot into their own Big City FunTime Arcade.

They had so much fun they wished the fair would last all year. They loved eating the cotton candy and playing arcade games, which I love too. Louie and Ralphie went to the Big City Carnival. They are rats, which I really don’t like. This is a fiction book about two brothers named Louie and Ralphie. But they’re Ratsos, and like their dad, Big Lou, Ratsos aren’t afraid of anything - right? Kara LaReau and Matt Myers team up for a second surprisingly touching chapter book proving that sometimes the things you fear the most aren’t at all what you thought - and might be exactly what you need to feel better. Ralphie’s head’s not exactly in the game, either, because of some rumors that have been swirling around school. Everyone says the house next to the lot is haunted, but if Louie just pretends it’s not there, maybe he can ignore the goose bumps he gets every time he looks at it. Louie and Ralphie Ratso have a genius idea: if they clear out the lot down the street, they can use all the junk lying around to build makeshift games for a Big City FunTime Arcade! With their friends to help, they’ll be able to recycle all the old abandoned stuff into whack-a-mouse, a high-striker, a fortune-telling booth, and more. When Louie and Ralphie Ratso set out to transform a cluttered lot into an arcade, they end up conquering a few surprising fears along the way in this follow-up to the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book The Infamous Ratsos.
