Just Too Cute!: And Other Tales of Adorable Animals for Horrible Children - Hardcover

Reiss, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762435240 ISBN 13: 9780762435241

Publisher: Running Press, 2010

Synopsis

Troublesome animals that are just too cute are taking over the real world and their natural habitat! Just Too Cute! presents a mix of playful stories and poems based on adorable yet troublesome animals. Mike Reiss creates an amusing world: a baby seal flops into Tiffany's mistaking the diamonds for ice and walks out with them; danger-prone dodo birds; a polar bear who swallows up a circus, or two, or three. The moral of the story all of the characters are just too cute” to the point of no longer being cute.”

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Reiss, primarily a film and TV writer, is best known as a former head writer for the popular animated sitcom, The Simpsons. He spent nineteen years on the show and won four Emmy awards. He is also an author of nine other children's books, some of which include, Santa Claustrophobia, The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln, and How Murray Saved Christmas. Mike lives in New York City with his wife.

Johnny Yanok's main interests include Halloween, Disney World, and anything mid-century modern. He has won two Spectrum Awards for the best in contemporary art. He is the Art Director of Johnny Yanok Graphic Design Illustration and has been a graphic designer for American Greetings for more than eleven years. Johnny lives in Akron, Ohio.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 1-2–This book contains a bizarre mix of stories and poems. Each one features a cute but troublesome animal. A “cutesy-wutesy, itsy-bitsy, chubsy-wubsy” seal runs away from the zoo and goes on a crime spree before being thrown in the slammer. A polar bear antagonizes his agent by eating the other performers on stage with him. Another selection explores the fate of dodos who just don't think. Yanok's cartoon illustrations are colorful and bright. They will be appealing to young children, but much of the humor will be over their heads, and one has to wonder about the snide tone of these cautionary tales.–Loreli E. Stochaj, Franklin School, Summit, NJ. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0762435240
• ISBN 13: 9780762435241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56
• Illustrator: Yanok Johnny