Showing posts with label Happy Cat Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Cat Books. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Lily takes a walk
Labels:
Happy Cat Books,
Lily Takes a Walk,
Satoshi Kitamura
Lily Takes a Walk
Written and Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
An ordinary day, an ordinary girl, an ordinary walk with her ordinary dog. Or at least that's how it seems in Satoshi Kitamura's simple but engaging book. The devil is in the detail though, and in each illustration there's something extraordinary to see. Great artwork, but probably could've done with being a bit longer.
Charlotte's best bit: The Loch Ness Monster in the canal
Daddy's favourite bit: The hidden faces in the landscape
Friday, 22 October 2010
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Written and Illustrated by Melanie Watt
Amazon Link: £5.24
Scaredy Squirrel offers another self-help guide for nervous types - this time he deals with the trials and tribulations of making a new friend.
Spotting a goldfish as a potential new pal, Scaredy makes sure and doubly sure that everything is in place before executing "Operation: Make a friend".
Melanie Watt is ace. Great graphical drawing style, hilarious writing style and she's Canadian so I'm automatically duty-bound to think she's awesome. Scaredy Squirrel is a great character too so if your kids enjoyed Scaredy Squirrel's first forays from his ancient oak tree home, enjoy another chapter where things don't quite run according to Scaredy's meticulously constructed plans.
Charlotte's best bit: "Licky dog!"
Daddy's favourite bit: Any book that features a cameo appearance from Godzilla automatically gets 5 out of 5!
Rating: Yep, 5 out of 5
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Scaredy Squirrel
Labels:
Happy Cat Books,
Melanie Watt,
Scaredy Squirrel
Written and Illustrated by Melanie Watt
Amazon Link: £4.59
Published by Happy Cat Books
He's lean, he's keen, he's absolutely petrified of everything outside the tree where he lives. That's Scaredy Squirrel. The book plays out like a survival manual for would-be squirrels and warns of the dangers outside the safe haven of an acorn tree.
Naturally Scaredy Squirrel soon finds out that even the best contingency plans of mice and men (and squirrels) come apart like wet tissue paper when an ordinary day turns into an extraordinarily dangerous one.
Great clean neat artwork and superb scurrying paranoid-squirrel text.
Charlotte's best bit: Killer bees!
Daddy's favourite bit: Killer bees too!
Rating: 4 out of 5
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