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Reich, Susanna

Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat

40 pp. | Abrams | May, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-0177-1 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Amy Bates. With Child's own writing as the source for a baker's dozen of apt quotes, this is as truthful an account as could be hoped for--while still being told from Julia Child's cat's point of view. Reich has a storyteller's instinct for entrancing incident and a poet's gift for sound and sensory detail. The roofs and markets of Paris and Julia's busy kitchen all spring to life in a pleasing palette in Bates's art.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2012