Chester
by:
Mélanie Watt (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545998611 (0545998611)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 32
Edition language: French
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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