Frida the Wondercat - Hardcover

Everitt, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152295402 ISBN 13: 9780152295400

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1990

Synopsis

All is well for Louise and her cat, Frida, until Louise finds a ruffled collar on her doorstep that, once on, turns ordinary Frida into a piano-playing wondercat. “The zany goings-on are wonderfully depicted in the two-dimensional illustrations, drawn with deceptive naiveté and carefully controlled by the skillful use of color, composition, and line.”--The Horn Book

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About the Author

Betsy Everitt graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mean Soup was inspired by her own experiences on one very bad day in 1991.
 

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3 --A mysterious package delivered to the door yields a ruffled collar that's just the right fit for Frida the cat. It provokes in her a string of strange behaviors, from playing the piano to driving a bus, and soon she's the talk of the town. But enough's enough; in her fame, Frida misses her person, Louise, so the two conspire to reclaim their old calm life by leaving the collar in a parcel at Simon's house next door. In the pictures, flattened, skewed perspectives and odd postures in the figures represent a peculiar energy in keeping with the story, compounded by texture and whitened luminescence of the opaque gouache. A consistent border keeps things under control. While the pictures are exuberant, the text seems forced. Van Allsburg's Jumanji (Houghton, 1981) gives a more intelligent rendering of the idea of an unexpected transforming gift that goes out of control and is passed on to the next unsuspecting receiver. --Karen Litton, London Public Libraries, Ontario, Canada
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About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0152295402
• ISBN 13: 9780152295400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32