Name: Chester
ISBN: 9780545998611

Mélanie Watt

Une illustratrice essaie d'écrire l'histoire d'une petite souris alors que son chat, envieux, rature les épreuves afin de changer le scénario à son avantage. Fatiguée par les caprices de celui-ci, elle fait de Chester la vedette de son album, mais le ridiculise en l'attifant d'un joli tutu rose! -- L'histoire d'une histoire maintes fois interrompue par un gros matou jaloux. Des aquarelles amusantes combinées à des traces de feutre rouge animent cet album concept avec espièglerie. [SDM].

Chester

As the author/illustrator attempts to create a picture book about a mouse in a house, her rotund feline Chester sends the mouse packing and attempts to rewrite the story with his handy red marker.

Sarah Sammis

Chester by Mélanie Watt is the first book in a picture book series about a meddling cat who wants to the star of a book. Mélanie Watt, on the other hand, wants to write a story about a mouse.

Through the dialog between Mélanie and Chester and the cat's use of red marker to draw over the original artwork, the book teaches children about the different parts of a story.

Chester is the first cartoon cat with this much attitude since Garfield. But he's aimed at a younger audience, the pre-K to second grade set.

There are two other Chester books: Chester Returns (review coming) and Chester's Masterpiece (review coming)

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