Green Cat - Hardcover

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

4.46

13 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887765866 ISBN 13: 9780887765865

Publisher: Tundra Books, 2002

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Having to share a room with a brother or sister can make for hard feelings, and the siblings in this hilarious book are grumpy about their crowded room. At least it seems crowded until Green Cat shows up. He’s going to show us what a really crowded room can look like. By the time he piles in everything from a toaster to a giraffe, the amazed siblings are ready to admit that sharing a room is not so bad after all.

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From the Back Cover:

“Khalsa is a wonderful artist who died in 1989...Framed with green borders, each picture is like a stage setting. Kids will adore watching Tom and Lynn's room fill up with all manner of strange and marvelous things, and then see it empty out again. All this excitement, plus a Gumby-like feline mastermind! Khalsa is missed.”
–Booklist

“Khalsa’s paintings are splendid – primitive folk art meets Coney Island.”
–Publishers Weekly

“The power of Khalsa’s jewel-bright art is undiminished.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“Aesop never said it better.”
–Time

“As always, Khalsa is smart, wise, funny and poignant...Children will giggle reading this book and marvel over the illustrations. Read it to them and enjoy.”
–BOOKS in Canada

“Khalsa puts a delightful spin on this tale...”
Children’s Book News

“...a vivdly colored picturebook featuring brightly colored, eye–catching artwork in a simplistic yet powerful modern style–Enthusiastically recommended for family, school, and community library picturebook collections. Green Cat is an entertaining and memorable storybook lesson about sharing.”
–Children’s Bookwatch

“A wonderful contemporary rendition of a classic Yiddish folktale, it’s truly a welcome addition to her unique body of work.”
–Quill & Quire

“Another winning book by the late Dayal Kaur Khalsa!”
–ABQLA Bulletin

“The illustrations are typical Khalsa: simple, naif, colourful and endearing. The text is lively and rhythmic, with a punchline that is bound to appeal to all ages.”
–The Gazette

“In Khalsa’s book, the green...colour scheme has the visual impact of Margaret Wise Brown’s Good Night Moon. But the liveliness and spark is Khalsa, pure joyful Khalsa.”
–The Standard

“This is a newly-discovered gem from a creative artist whose death in 1989 brought a too-brief career to an untimely end. It is a brilliant addition to her sadly small body of work. It bursts with all the fun and colour of her previous stories, with a sense of spirit in each spread.”
–Brandon Sun

“The clear direct text, the wit and the brilliantly managed colour and liveliness of the illustrations emphasizes what a talent we lost: but oh, the pleasure she left behind.”
–The Peace Arch News

About the Author:

Dayal Kaur Khalsa was born in Queens, New York. She traveled for many years before settling in Canada, where she wrote and illustrated stories about her childhood: her love for her gambling grandmother, her desire for a pet dog, and the wonderful day she discovered a new food, pizza. Dayal Kaur Khalsa died in 1989.

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