Cookie's Week
On Monday, Cookiea catfalls into the toilet. "There was water everywhere!" On Tuesday, she knocks a plant off the windowsill. "There was water everywhere!" And so Cookie undergoes a week of disasters that dePaola illustrates with his usual skill, so that even the garbage Cookie strews over the floor looks great. Four scrapes later, the text ends with "Tomorrow is Sunday. Maybe Cookie will rest." But Cookie, half-asleep on the rug, already has one eye on a bumblebee. This is a perfect choice for very young children, and extra-large print makes it even more accessible. Part of the fun of the illustrations is what is barely glimpsed: a tail extending from behind a curtain, very wet haunches exiting the bathroom or the same tail drifting over muddy footprints through the flower pots. Cookie appears in only three full-body shots throughout the book; the rest of the time she is almost out of the frame of her most recent disaster. Lively pastels with plenty of white offset the black cat's mischief. Ages 1-6.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.