Did You Eat the Parakeet?

Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 6, 2018

Review

An attractive and funny book, generous in size for reading to a group and sporting brightly colored, uncluttered line drawings and tells its story in rhyming verse. A small girl accuses her astonished kitty of eating her parakeet. Preschoolers and the rest of us as well will enjoy seeing the bird right on top of the little girl's head. But is that really a cat with perhaps a fat tail and is it a mouse in the child's pocket? What is "a budgie br�l�e and "a feathered flambe"? A few somewhat less than definitive drawings do get clearly identified in the text and while br�l�es and a flambe will mean nothing to three to five year olds, the words do satisfy the rhyme scheme and may very well entertain older readers. These few weaknesses do not altogether mar a genuinely amusing book, a first picture book for its author, illustrator that should be great fun for sharing with a group as well as one to one.

Overall Book Score: good