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Feiffer, Jules
7 Reviews
(2)
K-3
Kitty Rupert slips on his owner Mandy's dance slippers and boogies down. Loose, scribbly illustrations with washes of color capture Rupert's expressive face and body, from his satisfaction with his delicious secret to his mortification at being found out. The story of friendship and shared passion at the heart of this warmly humorous book will appeal to readers.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2014
(2)
PS
A small girl clambers up her tall daddy, who's depicted in a tweedy stone gray and is suitably immobile. In a vertical foldout, the red-haired moppet perches on Daddy's head while Daddy himself bursts into vivid color. A quintessentially simple idea, developed with delicious logic and Feiffer's witty limning of the girl's heroic postures.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2004
(4)
1-3
Backseat roughhousing between two brothers produces extreme results when the older brother decides that his father's threat to leave him by the side of the road sounds pretty good. The fanciful "what if" scenario that unfolds as the boy settles there permanently, tunneling underground for shelter instead of returning home, is undercut by an odd pessimism, echoed in Feiffer's murky black-and-white cartoons.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(3)
K-3
In this witty manifestation of the grass-is-greener phenomenon, a boy imagines that life is absolutely perfect for the kid who lives across the street. Feiffer perceptively fleshes out his narrator's fantasy with details kids would find enviable, e.g., "He can eat on the expensive rug in front of the TV," and illustrates it all with his usual urbane, expressive ink and watercolor art.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(2)
PS
An independent little boy escapes an adult's irritating summonses by becoming a succession of vehicles and creatures and making ever-more-distant escapes. Eventually, hunger brings him home, but still in disguise, and "they better let me watch TV. Or I'll eat them." Bobby's monologue appears in an assertive type, the adult's exhortations in swashes of flowing script that counterpoint the exuberantly drawn illustrations.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2001
(3)
PS
A mother dog frantic because her pup makes every animal noise, it seems, but the appropriate one ("arf"), seeks help from a vet. In a creepy yet funny move, Herr Doktor snaps on his rubber glove and extracts a cat, duck, pig, etc., from the youngster's mouth until he's cured--or is he? Agile, boldly outlined characters enact the sly drama on flat backgrounds done in Easter-candy colors.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(1)
K-3
With great comic insight, Feiffer captures the high drama that ensues when a child misplaces a beloved possession. Feiffer's loose-lined cartoon style effectively blends text and illustration for optimum comic timing; the varying perspectives and size and placement of the frames extends the narrative drama as well as the characters' emotions. A very funny and affectionate family satire, raised almost to the scale of full-blown grand opera.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.
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