Review: 3.5 (if I could). Bright, Full Page Original Artwork and a slightly off story.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
The artistry within this book is bold, original and so full of detail that at times it felt like a could feel the texture of the items.  Blucy's face is emotive and changes as the poetry dictates.  The little girl, Mandy, was cute in her search for finding the perfect food.At the end of the book are some fun cat facts and a quiz.Most stanzas of the book when taken individually have decent rhythm and rhyme.  Reading this to a small child would need minimum of rehearsal to find the rhythm..The problem I found was that story got lost for making the poetry to work.  Originally when the story talks about Blucy's fur changed with her attitude, I didn't realize that the fur changed to various shades of blue only.I also had issues with the story telling on the pages with the robin eggs, the pool, and when Blucy is drawing on the walls.  I believe one reason I had to reread these several times is that commas may be missing which would more correctly tell the story.  i.e. I thought the Robin's had jumped out of the nest not Blucy.  Regarding the drawing page the story says that"As Mandy searched for Blucy on the tallest bedroom shelf,Her cat used blue to draw and color pictures of herself."It makes it seem that Mandy was looking for Blucy on the bedroom shelf.  Well according to the illustration that was where Blucy was and so, voila, cat found.I realize that the above is a nitpick that bothered me and probably would never bother a young child.  However, I have come to realize there are people even more concerned with grammar and continuity within stories than I am.So while I fell in love with the art and I thought the story was kind of cute...I just can't get past the fact that I had to keep rereading the poetry to get it's intent.I do recommend this book, but with the knowledge that I do mainly because of the illustrations.