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Bachelet, Gilles
3 Reviews
(4)
PS
A panda mother reads a bedtime story "that grows" like the bamboo bed her cub is tucked into; a walrus dad sits atop ice reading a story "that's made to melt" to his child; and so on. The story types are occasionally stretches, but playful language and art details (such as the goldfish child playing with a toy octopus on a seashell rug) enliven this French import.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
(3)
K-3
Bachelet hypothesizes a diary entry by the White Rabbit's wife, about her at-home-mom life while her husband is at work at the palace. Wonderland characters grace the art, which shimmers with winking allusions to Carroll's original work; the text's darker elements (e.g., Mrs. Rabbit wishes her husband "paid just a little attention to me every once in a while") skew toward mature picture-book readers.
Reviewer: Nell Beram
(4)
K-3
In this follow-up to My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World, the joke is the same: the first-person text talks about a "cat," while the illustrations show an elephant acting like a feline. This time, however, the story is a disappointment and the joke is more bizarre than funny. Bachelet's art, however, is as nimble and clever as in the first book.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
3 reviews
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