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Me and My Cat? - Hardcover

Kitamura, Satoshi

 
9780374349066: Me and My Cat?
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374349061 ISBN 13: 9780374349066
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2000

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A Freaky Friday for younger kids -- and with an extra twist

Late one night Nicholas sees a witch enter his bedroom and hears her say some magic words. Then the witch leaves without even saying goodbye. When he wakes up the next morning, it doesn't take him long to realize something very strange is going on - especially when he pulls at his whiskers and watches himself go off to school. Whiskers? How confusing! That nasty witch cast the old switcheroo spell on him, and Nicholas has swapped bodies with his cat, Leonardo. Needless to say, quite an unusual day is in store for both Nicholas-inside-Leonardo and Leonardo-inside-Nicholas, and Satoshi Kitamura catalogues their misadventures in fantastically funny pictures.

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Satoshi Kitamura is the creator of many popular books for children, including Comic Adventures of Boots and Sheep in Wolves' Clothing. He lives in London, England.

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Kindergarten-Grade 3-Prior to the title page, an old lady with a broom and a pointy black hat is pictured crawling through a boy's window at night. The caption explains that she "brandished her broom at me and fired out some words. Then she left without saying goodbye-." The next day, Nicholas discovers that he has switched bodies with his cat Leonardo. What results is a humorous set of learning experiences about the life of a cat and, for poor Leonardo, the life of a boy. By the time the old woman returns the next night-"Sorry, love. I got the wrong address"-both victims, as well as the protagonist's frazzled mother, are anxious to return to normal. The twist on the last page is wickedly delightful, as are the expressive pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations. Facial expressions speak volumes, and the sense of kinetic movement and moments caught in a series of "snapshots" (on two consecutive spreads) will pull in the most diffident listeners. The high humor is infectious and the entire clever premise is well executed. Use this title with David Small's Imogene's Antlers (Crown, 1988) or William Joyce's George Shrinks (HarperCollins, 1985) for wonderful stories about strange transformations.
Ann Welton, Terminal Park Elementary School, Auburn, WA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Although not as unpredictable as his hard-boiled Sheep in Wolves' Clothing, this latest by Kitamura spotlights an offbeat sense of humor and a flair for comic-book layout. At first, it appears as though a dark-haired boy, Nicholas, narrates the story, while his yellow cat sits quietly in the foreground. But at breakfast, Nicholas buries his head in a cat-food dish until his mother "carr[ies] me off to catch the school bus. I had gone... but I was still here." Only then does Nicholas realize that he and his cat have exchanged physical identities. The "real" Nicholas, in the cat's body, spends the day accidentally toppling furniture and battling the tomcats next door. "Life was as complicated and tough as it was for humans," he discovers. Kitamura devotes several amusing spreads to imagining how a cat would inhabit a human body and vice versa. He contains these chaotic scenes in a tense, tightly controlled black-ink line and tints them with lush midnight-violet, fern-green and golden-ochre watercolors. "An old lady in a pointed hat" solves the dilemma in a conventional way, but the tale provides entertainmentAparticularly on the repetitive panels in which the boy wears a cat's impenetrable, miffed expression. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A witch's curse leaves Nicholas with the body of his cat, Leonardo, and the cat with the body of the boy. Nicholas adjusts to his feline physique gradually, first by taking a nap, then by leaping on the furniture--with crashing results. After Mom exiles her cat-son outdoors, Nicholas faces the bully cats and the now ferocious dog next door as he comes to realize that a cat's world is just as "tough and complicated as it is for humans." Kitamura allows the situation to speak for itself with his signature off-kilter line drawings, tiny illustrative details, and dry, matter-of-fact tone. Leonardo, home from school in Nicholas' body, tries to get in through the cat flap, licks his sweater clean, and finds "the radiator and the litter box irresistible." The curse is eventually redirected (the witch had the wrong address), and all is well until the next day at school, when it's obvious that the teacher (sitting on his haunches and scratching) has fallen under the witch's curse. Funny, frenetic, and insightful, too. Amy Brandt

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374349061
ISBN 13 
9780374349066
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
Kitamura Satoshi
Anzahl der Seiten
40
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