Daddy Tim and Trent are taking a few days off from that work place they are always complaining about. You'd think that would mean more kitty time, but they don't seem to be reading to us or playing with us more. Today they are going to a place called a "bookstore" which is a place both of them used to work. |
It's the story of a very sensible human man called Mr. Brown. He loves cheese and cats (just like both my daddies!) He even has glasses and a furless head like Daddy Tim. He decides to buy a bookstore and only sell ghost books (that's a third thing he loves, my daddies love lots of kinds of books--you can tell that just by looking at the house). Mr.Brown opens his store and gets a cat (who unfortunately does not get a name...I will call her Spooky Tail because she is black and in a book with ghosts). She likes cheese as much as Mr Brown does--like my Sissie Bruegel did! (The Daddies called her the Cheese Monger because she always begged for cheese). The bookshop also has mice! And the mice start scaring away the customers. Some humans are really silly in being afraid of mice! |
Over three days, they push books off shelves and steal ladies hats...and the bookstore becomes very popular because everyone thinks it IS haunted.
Mr. Brown tells Spooky Tail that he won't have to close the shop, and she tells him who the ghosts really are. Mr. Brown now likes books, cheese, cats AND his ghosts.
I like this book. And I think little humans will like it too. Nadine Bernard Westcott's illustrations are cute cartoons in those watercolor things Daddy Tim has talked about before. I especially like the picture of Spooky Tail playing with the mice. If mice acted like the ones in the book, I might like them more too...as friends instead of snacks.
I give this book three and a half treats.
The other day, Bubble was whacking Purple Egg around the living room and it popped into two pieces! She stopped playing with it, but I began to think that maybe the mousies were hiding things inside Purple Egg...Then when we play with it we move things around the house FOR them. Tricky! I will have to make sure that there is nothing inside it next time we play. I don't want to do the mousies' work for them. |