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32 pp.
| Scholastic/Orchard |
April, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-531-30326-8$$15.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Pascal Biet.
Crackers the cat gets fired from several jobs for being nice to mice, but the mice pay him back by helping him get his dream job in a cheese shop run by a mouse who ordinarily wouldn't hire a cat. Lighthearted watercolor cartoons depict, in humorous scenes, a gentle cat trying to break out of his stereotype: "But I don't want to chase mice. After all, they never chase me!"