SLIP! SLOP! GOBBLE!

by Jeanne B.--Adaptor Hardendorff ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 9, 1970

Sara Cone Bryant's ""The Cat and the Parrot"" (collected in Ross, The Lost Half-hour and Sechrist, It's Time for Story Hour) is such a graphic, outrageous tale--of the greedy, ungrateful cat who downs ""a bowl of good thick soup, a roast of meat, a fine fat fish, a pitcher of cream, a pot of tea. five hundred cookies, my friend the Parrot, an Old Woman, a Man, his donkey and cart, a King and his Queen, soldiers, men-at-arms, and elephants two by two"" (to say nothing of the two Land Crabs whose SNIP. SNAP is literally her undoing)--emphatically such a graphic, outrageous tale that to pictorialize it would seem counter-productive, even congealing of what would remain elastic in the mind's eye. Further, the story is so brief, so brisk, so rightly repetitive and onomatopoetic that it is foolproof for the squirmiest group (and little in need of revision here), Which might sound like a plea to retain it for the oral repertoire and probably is--although Emily McCully's legerdemain generally keeps the incongruous from seeming ridiculous and only once allows the cat to become King Kong.

Pub Date: Sept. 9, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: CHILDREN'S