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Crackers the cat has trouble keeping a job until he finds one that is perfect for him.
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In this mild-mannered caper, a French feline named Crackers takes to mice and cheese. The cat finds, then loses, a succession of menial jobs; his sin is being nice to mice, whom his employers scorn. ("You're supposed to chase mice in this warehouse, not make friends with them!" says his first boss, a bulldog.) Crackers decides he would be happiest working in a mouse-owned cheese shop. The bespectacled owner is understandably suspicious of the fellow's intentions, but the cat rounds up the mice he has befriended as references and lands the post. With a light touch, Biet's ink-and-wash drawings convey Crackers's disillusionment on his way to the right job and incorporate images of French leisure bubbles coming off champagne flutes in a restaurant, pleasure boats on the river, picnics with cheese and baguettes. This newest book by the team behind Wolf! delivers its message about being kind to the weak rather than kowtowing to the powerful as smoothly and as easily digestible as Camembert on croissant. Though Crackers's fecklessness dilutes his heroism somewhat (he spends as much time agonizing about what to wear to interviews as he does defending mice), he is a hero of achievable status. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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K-Gr 2-Crackers doesn't mind mice the way that most cats do. This oddity doesn't bother him until he tries to get a job. It seems that all of his employers want him to do one thing and one thing only-keep the rodents away. Ironically, after being fired from the warehouse, the town pool, and the local restaurant, the feline finds that his dream job is at the Squeak & Company Cheese Shop-but no self-respecting mouse is going to hire a cat. Crackers's past good deeds prove useful, however, as the mice he befriended come forward to vouch for him, and the manager agrees to give him a try. Of course, he becomes famous, and everyone is happy. Crackers, depicted as an everyday tabby in the cartoon illustrations, towers over the mice in a gentle giant sort of way. His many facial expressions convey his emotions during his varied job searches. Ultimately, Crackers is a charming feline for young readers to know.
Lisa Gangemi Krapp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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