Chester
by:
Mélanie Watt (author)
Chester is more than a picture book. It is a story told, and retold, by dueling author-illustrators. Melanie Watt starts out with the story of a mouse in a house. Then Melanie's cat, Chester, sends the mouse packing and proceeds to cover the pages with rewrites from his red marker, and the gloves...
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Chester is more than a picture book. It is a story told, and retold, by dueling author-illustrators. Melanie Watt starts out with the story of a mouse in a house. Then Melanie's cat, Chester, sends the mouse packing and proceeds to cover the pages with rewrites from his red marker, and the gloves are off.Melanie and her mouse won't take Chester's antics lying down. And Chester is obviously a creative powerhouse with confidence to spare. Where will this war of the picture-book makers lead? Is it a one-way ticket to Chesterville, or will Melanie get her mouse production off the ground?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781554531400 (1554531403)
Publish date: September 1st 2007
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Series: Chester
Oh, this book earned some belly laughs from my nephew! He loved the pages in which Chester expressed his frustration with Melanie and the mouse by drawing unflattering stick figures of them. He busted out laughing and said, "Amy, read that page again!!" After we were done he said, "I like Chester...
It cracked us up. It's a clever metafictional riff on books for kids. It is also, now, a model for picture-book making for the Possum, who's written imitative tributes to the neighbor's cat, Max, for the daughter of the household.2008 February 17Library copy.
This book is supposed to be about a mouse, but Chester decides it needs to be about him. So, throughout the book Chester and the author are fighting back and forth to write the book their way.This is a pretty funny book. I enjoyed Chester.
Tired of waiting to be the star of his own book, fat cat Chester takes over mouse's book, emending it with his red permanent marker.Suoer cute concept, I would have liked to see it fleshed out just a little more. A few more pages.
I liked it, and not just because of the cat's name.
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