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In a charming "grass is always greener" fable, a cat that imagines life would be better as a dog recognizes, after some thought, the many advantages of being a feline.
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Lydia Monks is one of the best-loved illustrators of today. Her first picture book title, I Wish I Were a Dog, won the Smarties Bronze Award in 1999. Since then, her many picture books include No More Eee-orrhh!, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Gorilla! and the much-loved Aaaarrgghh, Spider! (Egmont), and various titles by Julia Donaldson and Carol Ann Duffy (Macmillan). Lydia was the official World Book Day illustrator in 2005. Since being published in April 2004, Aaaarrgghh, Spider! has had enormous success, going into eight co-editions. Lydia lives in Sheffield with her illustrator husband Frazer and her two daughters.
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Envy may be one of the seven deadly sins, but first-timer Monks offers a funny, pointed and visually sublime exegesis on the subject. "I wish I were a dog," grumbles an almost fluorescent marmalade cat who grudgingly shares a home with a Scottie. "Dogs have all the fun." Cats, after all, don't get to romp in the park with their owners and they can't bark; dogs, meanwhile, "guard the house,/ They can catch crooks,/ And they're always the heroes/ in movies and books." But the cat's owner, a bright-eyed girl with orange pigtails that radiate from her full-moon head, counters with some powerful arguments: What self-respecting cat would want to fetch? And who naps or cuddles in a lap more expertly than a feline? Self-acceptance prevailsAfor the cat at least; as the book closes, the Scottie finds himself so persuaded by the girl's reasoning that he now wishes he were a cat. Monks matches the snappiness of her rhyming text with zippy, full-bleed art. Witty soup?ons of paper, photo and cloth collage enhance the strong shapes and saturated colors of her endearingly goofy characterizations; the zaniness is lightly but expertly controlled, and the pictures pop off the page. Pure fun all the way. Ages 3-7.
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- PublisherDial
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0803723385
- ISBN 13 9780803723382
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorMonks Lydia
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