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"Chicken Soup with Rice", "Splat the Cat" and "Cowboy & Octopus"
This was an eclectic set of books.
Chicken Rice with Rice
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Chicken Soup with Rice can be enjoyed every month of the year in some way. This is a fantasy book of the ways given month by month.
The drawings are fun and imaginative.
Unfortunately a recipe for the soup is not given so the reader is left feeling hungry.
Splat the Cat
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Rob Scotton
Splat the cat faces his first day of cat school. He is scared. So he takes his best friend Seymour Mouse with interesting results.
The illustrations are colorful and consistent. The cats look like stuffed toy robot cats, but work well with the story.
Cowboy & Octopus
3 stars
Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Lane Smith
The short sketches are supposed to be funny. A few of them are. Most are trite and silly.
The illustrations are collages where the cowboy and the octopus are like paper dolls. They do fit the stories well.
Chicken Rice with Rice
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Chicken Soup with Rice can be enjoyed every month of the year in some way. This is a fantasy book of the ways given month by month.
The drawings are fun and imaginative.
Unfortunately a recipe for the soup is not given so the reader is left feeling hungry.
Splat the Cat
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Rob Scotton
Splat the cat faces his first day of cat school. He is scared. So he takes his best friend Seymour Mouse with interesting results.
The illustrations are colorful and consistent. The cats look like stuffed toy robot cats, but work well with the story.
Cowboy & Octopus
3 stars
Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Lane Smith
The short sketches are supposed to be funny. A few of them are. Most are trite and silly.
The illustrations are collages where the cowboy and the octopus are like paper dolls. They do fit the stories well.
